[musictlk] dancing in big musical numbers!

[Sarah alawami]

I don't use a cane for my dances, ever!  But then gain I have very good
spacial orientation I don't need a cane on stage, only when I'm singing do I
use my cane. It helps me to hold on to something when I'm nervous.

-----Original Message-----
From: musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 6:57 PM
To: NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [musictlk] dancing in big musical numbers!

Thanks, Jessica,

It is all going extraordinarily well now that we have gotten 
ourselves past their first objections.    I'm sewing a little extra 
pocket into my Person of Oz get-up for my cane ... just in case I  need it.
I don't think there's much chance of getting seriously turned around with an
entire orchestra right there serving as  a directional cue, but I do want to
be able to catch the off-stage steps with a cane rather than with my foot as
we scamper off.  My current approach is to skip to a point that's about
three or four steps away from the edge of the stage, then whip out my cane
for the last bit.  I'm doing a couple entrances on my own and a couple
touching another dancer:  my plan is to take a guide when we're supposed to
be snaking around in a line (no way to predict or hear where the person in
front of me will go exactly) and either use a cane or just go  for it when I
don't have to worry about that sort of thing.
My weekend project will be spray painting a telescoping cane green.  Don't
you'all suppose that blind people of Oz have green canes rather than white
ones?

Ho ho ho and a ha ha ha,... and a couple of tra la la's,

Sheri





At 01:50 PM 1/25/2010, you wrote:
>I have not done the Wizard of Oz, but I have been in several 
>musicals/shows where dancing in a large group has been involved, 
>although not really until high school/college.  I had a hard time with 
>it because I did not have someone to work with me as much as I needed, 
>but it can definitely be done and it can be fun! Have some extra fun for
me!
>Jessica
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen" <swellsj at bgsu.edu>
>To: <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 5:22 PM
>Subject: [musictlk] dancing in big musical numbers!
>
>
> > Hi, everyone,
> >
> > As happiness would have it, I  have a small part in our local 
> > production of the Wizard of Oz.  My actual part is to be the farm 
> > hand who happens to be sitting handily nearby on a stump with a 
> > guitar when Dorothy needs to sing Over the Rainbow.  I'm very 
> > excited about this.  I've played in many situations, but never in a
musical and never with a real orchestra.
> >
> > I'm also in the chorus: just one more alto.  Originally, the chorus 
> > was not going to dance, but now, it turns out we *are* dancing.  so, 
> > my
> > question:
> >
> > Has anyone out there  done this?  I'm not a dancer: I can step and 
> > kick and box step and I've done a little square dancing, that sort 
> > of thing, but dancing in a mass of folks is a new adventure for me.  
> > I looked up all those terms dancers give their footwork and learned 
> > how they go, and I know a person or two in the chorus who will go 
> > over things with me.  I've discovered I'm perfectly OK with the big 
> > mass number so far (more or less as ok as the other nondancers), but 
> > there are smaller groups who apparently are going to zip on and off 
> > the stage, and the whole business is, of course, very loud!
> >
> > I have a few thoughts about how to accomplish all this, but I'd love 
> > to exchange notes with anyone who has a musical under his or her belt.
> > I'd also like to be able to tell the director: "sure, no worries: I 
> > know six other blind people who have done this already."
> >
> > Yours from the Emerald City,
> > Sheri
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen
> >
> >
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