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Monday, November 2, 2015

Notes from November 1st


Blocking Notes

End of Hanget Soi – XCTE ends in mixed scattered.

Move with purpose and excitement!

Narrator line: “After nearly a year of being away…” Family men enter and form the family group & Lucy centre centre – XCTE make room for them.

Narrator line: “That year, and for every year after…” XCTE move to the sides of the stage. Family & Lucy move stage right. Men in the family exit completely.

Jul Jul – BLOCKING VIDEO

M. 7     – XCTE move to mixed scattered. In place by measure 10
            - All men enter from Stage Right to stand on the platform (stay there for the entire piece – none of the following notes apply to you) Remember to sing as you walk!

M. 17
Move into new position – three curved lines (front line inverted, back two lines in a regular U shape), plus an inverted XYE line in the very front.
Front line (Stage right to stage left) : Sarah, Rachael D, Maria, Kaitlyn, Meghan, Nikki, Sydney, Jess, Julia
Second line (Stage right to stage left) : Rachael G, Georgia, Carolyn, Leah B, Sarah-Jean, Paige, Grace, Krystal, Talisa, Leah P
Back line (Stage right to stage left) : Kallie, Colleen, Brianna, Mackenzie, Hayley, Joanna, Tenille, Jordyn, Sara



M. 21
Turn to face centre

M. 22
Stage left people take a small step the the right (i.e. upstage)

M. 23 - 32
Walk forward one step per measure on the downbeat (right foot first), swapping positions with the other half of the choir

On Jenny’s bridge, people who are now on stage right turn to face forward and step forwrad to reform the line. People on stage left, turn to face forward.

Sing the rest of the song from these positions.


Ariana’s Lament



For the entire song, Xara will be on stage right (Sops furthest to stage right, then Altos on the side closest to centre) 



Stand here and sing until bottom of page 3

On Kallie’s solo line “Among among turahé”, turn over your right shoulder to face Kallie.

At the end of that solo line “éééééé turahé”, continue turning over your right shoulder to face front.

Top of page 5 – split centre, and move when you sing. Sopranos lean right, Altos lean left. Stay leaning out until you sing again, then come back to standing. Let your arm and head flop

Page 6
3 “oh-ah” – Group 1 on the first choral “oh-ah”, Group 2 on the second, Group 3 on the third. Movement is leaning forward, lead with right shoulder & right foot. Right arm should hang loosely

“Among among turahé” Return slowly to standing

First “lala” section : Action 1 – Sharp lift right shoulder and jerk it back each time you repeat your pattern

Second repeated “lala” section : Action 2 – Left shoulder sharp drop and return each time you repeat your pattern

After the fermata in the second last system (leading into the descending “lala” section) : Action 3 - Right shoulder jerk up, then left shoulder

Come to stillness on the Alto triplets

Hanget Soi - BLOCKING VIDEO

DO NOT SING LETTER A

Letter A : Offstage. Enter just before letter B

Letter B : Move through the space. Greet each other happily.,

Letter C : Continue moving, XYE will join you now.

Bottom of page 5 – Top of page 6 – Ariana and Lucy will enter down stage left (let a ripple excitement pass through the crowd)

Letter D : Stand and face the front and sing

Letter E (piano) : Stay in place, but turn to interact with the people around you

Letter F : Move to the periphery while XYE moves through the village

Letter G : Enter and interact with / greet Ariana ( and wonder about Lucy)

Letter H : Turn to face front and sing to the end





Monday, October 19, 2015

Notes from October 18th

Hey Ho! Nobody Home - Video (no blocking)


Road Map reminders:
-       Sing straight through to the first ending of letter D (verse 2)
-       Repeat Letter C
-       Sing verse 3 at Letter D
-       Repeat Letter C, jump to the Coda (the words are “made us all” with “all” only lasting only an eighth note). Solo 1 begins with the word “Now”.
-       Continue to Letter E and sing through to the end of the piece

Blocking - VIDEO
General notes:
-       when you are walking around, be sure to use all of the space, and be purposeful in your walking
-       think about who your character might be in the village (you’ve been suffering through storms, there is the ritual of lighting the fire etc.) and make that clear in the way that you move around. It’s fine as well for there to be small groups of two or three who always travel around together.

M. 1 – Letter B – Standing at the back of the stage,  mixed (men mostly together, near the centre) on platforms and on the floor.

Letter B – Lights come up, you stay where you are

M. 31 (and into Letter C) – Move forward and fill out the space

Letter C
“Soal a soal a soal cake” – look at each other
“Please good missus a soal cake” – STOP, snap to look at the audience
“an apple…” look at each other again, walk around : Alan move to downstage right and Jess to downstage, everyone else mill about until you get to the side & back of the stage by letter D.

Letter C (second time)
More walking about. End up on the other side of the stage
“Please good missus a soal cake” STOP, snap to look at the audience
Continue to mill – then be at the sides of the stage at Letter D – Sara, Katelyn, two XYE girls, Dorian, Neil and Omercan at the centre as a family unit.

Letter C (third time)
Walking!
“Please good missus a soal cake” STOP, snap to look at the audience
By the end of C, men will be clustered in the centre near the back, two descant groups in the front on either side of the fire (Solo1 downstage left, Solo2 downstage right), Sops fill the space on stage right, Altos fill the space on stage left. Don’t isolate the descant singers, but they are at the very front. YOU MUST BE HERE ON TIME :-) 

Letter E to the end – Stand and sing




Boadicea - VIDEO
Singers embody the forest. Make sure you move very smoothly from one formation to the other.

First page of music – XCTE drift onstage until you are just on the periphery (Sops Stage right, Altos stage left – leave space near the front of the stage for the men on either side)

M. 10 – Men enter (Tenors DownSR, Basses DownSL)

Letter A – (FOREST A) Spread out to sectional mixed scattered formation, but men stay near to each other and near the front.

M. 29 – 31 Move to FOREST B

Letter B – (FOREST B) Diagonal formation from USR to DSL. Men will be in the centre of the formation. Sopranos upstage, Altos downstage. Ariana will walk through this formation. See photos for standing order. 







M. 42 Move to FOREST C

Letter C – (FOREST C) Two lines (groups of 2 or 3) with a channel down the centre – Tenors & Sops SR (Tenors in front), Basses and Altos SL (Basses in front).

M. 54 Move to FOREST D

Letter D – (FOREST D) Three very close semicircles around Ariana who will be front and centre. See photos for standing order, the lines will meet in the centre.




M. 69 Move to FOREST E

Letter E – (FOREST E) Fade very slowly backward (Sops to USR corner, Altos to USL corner maintaining your positions; Tenors and Basses also drift back, staying toward the front of the group)

M. 89 – End – Sopranos and Altos slowly leave the stage, walking backward. After the final chord, Tenors and Basses fade back as well.



The Sky and the Dawn and the Sun
Pay attention to the unintuitive rhythms (e.g. page 4 “so deep”; page 5 “Paradise with me, awake…”

M. 52 – All Sops and Middles sing the top line




Hanget Soi

Use the tools that have been provided for diction and pronunciation :-) 


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