Thank you. Thank you for making this a stage show. choreographer , and designers of a show that I have great admiration for, called "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder." And I knew I wanted to work with that team.
calls his cabinet he watched a lot of the westwing he calls them his cabinet the director Tommy kale the choreographer Andy blanken buer um and the orchestrator Alex LaMore these guys seem to share a brain a brain that movesunbelievably quickly it's like one of those westwing conversations where they're walking and talking at the same time on Fast
Meredith that's Meredith monk some people may know her as an amazing choreographer and composer and she comes to the West Coast periodically and Icheck in with her we sit around the table after the performance and she's surrounded by her acolytes they all have
Which I don't know if every American I've ever encountered has that same sense of personal anguish Choreographer , set designer, costume designer, music director, all people of color because this is what I do.
yes if right if they don't come to you you seek them out and that's we have um a little bit from the dancer and choreographer Elizabeth streb I don't know whether any of you have seen her work but if you haven't you should go online just Google streb or go acrossthe river to Brooklyn and see one of her shows it's an amazing you will see people diving through Pains of glass
The sound came first. Choreographers worked so much with sound.They really worked to create the soundscape that is the rumble.
It's not by choice. The choreographer is, in a way, investigating the place that dancing has in our lives already.
It's not by choice. The choreographer is exhibiting that we are dancers to ourselves.
What kind of special training did you guys have to go through to prepare for that? The choreographers you brought in, what was that experience like? Well, we have a-- so neither Tiffany nor I have a dance background.
Hey, everybody. My name's Jenn Weber. I'm the choreographer of the show. A little bit of this.
Yeah. Like Shiamak Davar, for example. He's a famous choreographer in India. Yeah, yeah. So how do you feel about?
Good. And part of that has to do with being in "Hadestown." And I also have read that besides being a performer, you're also a choreographer , a novelist, a director, and a professor? Yeah, but those are all past.
with young people. I'm just thinking that you also refer to yourself as an educator and a performer as well as a choreographer . And we've been talking about your talents as a choreographer , but I just want to take a minute to talk about your life
Melissa. Hi. Everyone, let's welcome our panelists, Melissa Benoist, who plays Carole King, Joyce Chittick, our associate choreographer , and Stacey Zaloga, our assistant stage manager. So Melissa, congratulations on your Broadway debut playing Carole King in "Beautiful." I saw the show last week.
original choreography but just making it more I don't know um Andy's sense of time is different than Jillian's. Jillian Lim the original choreographer has I would say you probably speak to it better as a dancer but a longer sense of time and has a subdivision of time in his head. That's a good way of saying it. And it's like also the storytelling.
good idea. By the way, uh uh he just wrote to me that has just written the She's a dance choreographer . But often I I have an idea for a long time. I've been thinking about a piece uh I worked
I was a choreographer , and I was deep into hip-hop-- so definitely have those hip-hop roots that are infused in there.
I was a fight choreographer .
I was a choreographer , and I was deep into hip-hop.
Are you kidding me? So many choreographers have choreographed to it. The most iconic of levels, and the music is extremely complicated to hear, to count musically, and so I just always pushed it away.
And the choreographers are laughing.
by three different choreographers that were made over the course of 60 some odd years.
George Lucas's uh choreographers so he looked like a fool um as he played
She also-- Jessie Rob is our other choreographer .
was our director and our choreographer , Sergio.
How is it working with a director/choreographer versus the directing and the choreography separate.
Yeah. You've made it. I didn't know the choreographer before this job.
And it was just the associate choreographer who came out, and he was like, come on in.
And you're such a versatile choreographer and action star, that how do you approach choreographing for a character who is supposed to be older?
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Because I didn't want just a choreographer .
working with a this contemporary dance choreographer that you saw in the video.
I was their friend who was the choreographer and so, that was them flexing their new muscles.
I was the de facto choreographer in the Pops.
Girls well one Fly Girl the choreographer Rosie Perez the second one being Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer came
Jerome Robbins was the original choreographer of West Side Story.
John: And he was the choreographer .
I'm trying to remember when the choreographers came on.
Many of my friends are choreographers , dancers, painters, and such other guys from art.
I mean, all great high school stories should end at a high school dance. I didn't really work with the choreographers at all.
She is one of the most famous choreographers of our time.
and a host of and other choreographers .
I was treated well by choreographers .
Laurie Ann Gibson, my choreographer , really did her big one with that.
And Shana, our circus choreographer , sent two of the acrobats with me to just play around on the trapeze.
And I've actually got a clip of your choreographer talking.
as well as a choreographer . And we've been talking about your talents as a choreographer , but I just want to take a minute to talk about your life as a dancer in "Wicked" and other performances, and also as an educator, because you have this other big life where you're inspiring young people
So I came on board. And I came to see the show before I met the choreographer . And I came by myself, which I was really glad I did.
revival that's on right now-- he's just an amazing choreographer .
earth and myself the earth is like the choreographer of the piece and I'm just interpretating in the real data that is