Guest lil_dancer Posted December 4, 2004 Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 When your an understudy for just a dance as a whole (not a part) how do you act in class...is it any different than if you wern't?? Quote Link to comment
SeaMonkey Posted December 4, 2004 Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 When I've understudied, I stood near the back while learning it and did it full out in the back or marked in the corner if there wasn't enough room. I learned all the variations just in case someone from that variation was absent. It just so happened the piece I was understudying happened to have a lot of people who missed rehearsals a lot, so I wound up performing the piece at every rehearsal till a week before the show, including a pas de deux Quote Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted December 4, 2004 Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 In class, you are still a student. You act no differently than you act for any other class. In a class environment, even the most senior dancers have no particular hierarchy. They are students. In rehearsal, an understudy for a corps part, if not filling in for a missing dancer, waits in an upstage corner of the rehearsal hall, or wherever one is desired to stand by the teacher, ballet master, regisseur or repetiteur who is conducting the rehearsal. There, one stands quietly marking the part being understudied, and tries to do so as unobtrusively as possible, without hitting other dancers. If a class is being used as a rehearsal, that's not right; it's just not right. Quote Link to comment
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