For performance workshop, me and a group worked collaboratively on each of our chosen songs together, they were five of us and we came the concepts and ideas for four songs- 'The Prologue', 'Invitation to the Jellicle Ball', 'Gus: The Theatre Cat' and 'Growltiger's Last Stand. The first thing we did was adapt the fashion concept to all of our songs.
'Prologue: Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats' is quite an upbeat, slightly manic song so the idea is for the song to portray that everyone is packed backstage at the rehearsal of a fashion show, so it's people looking through clothing rails, holding outfits up against each other, chatting among themselves, everything just goes a little bit fast paced and visually entertaining.
My Pitch
Prologue 1st assessment
'Invitation to the Jellicle Ball'
For this song I helped come up with the first concept of this song of someone handing out invitations to everyone to come to the Jellical Ball, It begins with Quaxo singing in the middle of the Cat walk then walking down the cat walk to hand out the invitations until the last line 'Jellicle's Come To the Jellicle Ball' is sung, the rest of the invitations are thrown in the air. Everyone then rushes to pick them up but pauses to listen to Munkustrap. Then the music changes and everyone thanks Munkustrap for the invite and then goes back to work.
Niamh's Pitch
Jellicle Ball 1st assessment
Niamh's Pitch
Jellicle Ball 1st assessment
'Gus: The Theatre Cat' is a long, slow and mellow song, because of its length we decided that it should be cut down because there's only so much we can do to keep it entertaining. Due to the song being at such a slow pace, it meant for a challenging task to include simple movement that fills the stage. There are an equal number of dancers so we paired up for a section of the dance to float around graciously not drawing focus but keeping the stage alive. In our concept Asparagus is an old, respected, well-lived designer/ex-model/ex-actor, so en light of this information we came up with the idea that the song would be a masquerade ball being held in his honour. The ball is taking place because Asparagus has been featured on yet another high end Fashion Magazine, being praised for the work he has done throughout his life. In the article, there is a double page spread of pictures of productions and events Gus has been involved with in duration of his entire career.
Cherkanah's Pitch
Gus 1st assessment
'Growltiger's Last Stand' is a portrayal of Gus thinking back to when he was a young fashion designer, showcasing his designs, coming straight after Gus: The Theatre Cat, Cherkanah and Josh remained the same characters and it was if as if they are narrating the chaos of the fantasy. We then discussed what props we may need to highlight what is going on to make the story line clearer, so we decided on swords that we will also incorporate into the choreography. The pirate fantasy is a flashback to one of Gus' highly anticipated and incredibly successful fashion shows.
Growltiger 1st assessment
Growltiger 1st assessment
Later rehearsal of Gus:
Later rehearsal of Growltiger:
