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**JonD** · 19th-January-2006, 04:22 PM

HELP! I'm terrified.

Ruth, our AT teacher, has asked Julie and I to do an AT demo at an event in Totnes on 3rd March. Evidently it's some kind of "celebrate the diversity of our community, including dance" thing and Ruth is teaching abroad on that day so she asked us. Apart from being flattered I'm also scared to death as performing in public really isn't my thing. Julie loves it, I hate it! We've agreed because we think it'll kick our dancing to a new level and Ruth has offered to give us two private lessons to help polish up our act.

So, where do we start? Julie will have her own ideas but I haven't got a clue about how you put this sort of demonstration together and I'd like to have some input. On the few times when I've been dragged, screaming and kicking, into a demonstration we've just freestyled it but I think we're going to need a routine for this one. What's the best way of designing one? Tell a story - the old "boy meets girl ...." thing and then chose some music and work out what movement will fit the story? Decide on the music then invent a story to fit that? We won't get a chance to rehearse until we get back from holiday on 11th Feb so we can't do anything that takes weeks.

All advice will be gratefully received including the kind of shapes that we should use. I'm going to watch that AT demo from SCD again - although we'll look nothing like those dancers except in my dreams!

19th-January-2006, 04:22 PM	#68 (permalink)
JonD Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Exeter Posts: 535 Rep Power: 3 Reputation Total: 688	Re: Learning Tango HELP! I'm terrified. Ruth, our AT teacher, has asked Julie and I to do an AT demo at an event in Totnes on 3rd March. Evidently it's some kind of "celebrate the diversity of our community, including dance" thing and Ruth is teaching abroad on that day so she asked us. Apart from being flattered I'm also scared to death as performing in public really isn't my thing. Julie loves it, I hate it! We've agreed because we think it'll kick our dancing to a new level and Ruth has offered to give us two private lessons to help polish up our act. So, where do we start? Julie will have her own ideas but I haven't got a clue about how you put this sort of demonstration together and I'd like to have some input. On the few times when I've been dragged, screaming and kicking, into a demonstration we've just freestyled it but I think we're going to need a routine for this one. What's the best way of designing one? Tell a story - the old "boy meets girl ...." thing and then chose some music and work out what movement will fit the story? Decide on the music then invent a story to fit that? We won't get a chance to rehearse until we get back from holiday on 11th Feb so we can't do anything that takes weeks. All advice will be gratefully received including the kind of shapes that we should use. I'm going to watch that AT demo from SCD again - although we'll look nothing like those dancers except in my dreams!