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Auditions are great, but they often won’t give you the best sense of every actor’s ability. Often before I start choreographing, I send a form out to the actors to find out two things. 1) Does anyone have any cool skills I can incorporate? 2) Is anyone unwilling to do something I wanted them to do? The first is a really fun thing to know. Is someone able to do perfect fuotees or a split--why not take advantage of that. The second is the more important: the last thing you want is to get to rehearsal and have to change something major--or worse have an actor do something that makes them feel unsafe because they don't have the agency to communicate their discomfort in the moment.
BOWS ARE YOUR RESPONSIBLITY!!!!
Plan and teach them early
While you Choreograph
Or how to make it all look nice
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