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Practice Makes Perfect
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And More Practice |
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Dancing
For Choreographer Rhonda Stampalla |
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 What a treat!... I wanted to share some of
the rehearsal experience as well as g.inished product because so much time, effort and concentration goes into this. Our choreographer RHONDA STAMPALIA staging is amazing.
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I was proud to be a
guest artist alongside KLARA HOUDET of BALLET EDDIE TOUSSAINT DE MONTREAL...OGULCAN BOROVA with THE
CINCINATTI BALLET, as well as...RYAN CARLSON from BAD BOYS OF DANCE...and BRIAN PALMER from SUZANNE
FARRELL BALLET. Dancing with THE JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY at our feet conducted by MICHAEL BUTTERMAN who could ask for more!!
I play THE DANCING
MAID....who is shocked at all the finery she sees coming into the party and feels like CINDERELLA without the magic wand transforming her.
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"I can fly...I can fly...." Oops! Wrong Production. |
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Everyone Likes the Maid! |
Dancing with Grandfather (Henry
Rogers) |
So
she decides...she will be a part of this party anyway and dances solo until the grandfather danced by HENRY ROGERS spots her, gets enamored and after removing herself from his
presence as much as she can ...somehow ends up performing "The Grandfathers Dance." He is so overcome he gives her a big kiss on the cheek and all hell breaks loose!
Now I have
heard there are versions of the maids role where she is intoxicated, proper, comical and sometimes non-existent, but my maid conceived by both the choreographer and me has truly taken on a life of its own....
From being spotted in one of the boxes during the overture, dusting and dancing around the chairs, being scared to death while assisting DROSSELMEIR (played to perfection by BRIAN
PALMER), to mimicking the fine ladies at the party.
Think "ELIZA
DOOLITTLE wanting to be the FAIR LADY" and that's what it came down too. The audience loved the part...and I loved the audience! |
