Musical Theatre (10) - "Tango: Maureen"

In this lesson, the class either drew set designs for different scenes or drew costume designs for their characters. However, Cameron and I decided that we would go off and start setting "Tango: Maureen". As we know we don't have long to work on this, as we know that as soon as Henry is back we will be working on group numbers, we used the majority of the choreography from the Broadway show. We shall do our own thing on the parts of the song that aren't danced but decided we would use a lot of their choreography. Cameron isn't very confident at dancing so I learned the choreography from this video but then simplified it or changed bits for Cameron and I.

After a lot of practising we managed to get a pretty strong routine that we were happy with. We then performed it to the class and was then told that we would be performing a different version of this song due to only certain backing tracks being available. Therefore we will have to adapt our dance as different versions of the song slightly change the order of what happens. However, this definitely was not a wasted lesson as we both are more comfortable dancing tango steps and know what we want to do with this piece. As soon as we get the correct backing track, I shall adapt the dance to fit the track, and quite possibly simplify sections to make it easier for us both to sing at the same time. However, we would like to keep the routine as similar as we can as we are both happy with it. As soon as we get the backing track and start working on our new version of our dance, we shall sing it whilst learning to dance it, thus making it easier to sing and dance at the same time, and making it feel more natural to do so.