Thirty seconds of choreography!

I finally bit the bullet and bought an alumni gym membership at Brandeis's Gosman Athletic Center. Until very recently the only criteria for admission was to flash a student ID at the kid sitting at the table by the door, and since I still have an ID that looks current, it was not obvious that I was no longer a student. I got away with doing that for over two years, until they switched the entrance policy to having to scan said ID in a card reader before you could be admitted. My ID is long since deactivated, so that was the end of that particular scam. An alumni gym membership costs a hundred and seventy-five dollars, which if you break that down on a per-month basis like most gyms is a great deal. It's just that my budget is tight enough that dropping that much money all at a shot is kind of painful. But I'm glad I did it, because I can start going again.

What I did with the very first day of my new membership is to commandeer the excellent dance studio and dance for an hour. I practiced ballet, and I also made my first real, solid progress on my choreography idea. I've been unable to get the idea of putting together an Avengers-themed dance production set to certain songs on the film soundtrack, with each dancer representing a different character, and even though it's kind of a silly idea I feel inspired and energized about it. So I want to see if I can do it. katiescarlett29 and I are looking into venues and everything. But after about an hour of noodling around listening to Comeback by Redlight King, one of my favorites on the soundtrack and clearly the Captain America song, I hammered out about thirty seconds of solid choreography that I feel good about. I just kind of danced improvisationally, doing whatever came naturally as I listened, and then took whatever came out nicely (re: non-clumsily) I worked on refining into a series of steps. A slow, undisciplined process, perhaps, as I danced for about an hour and only came out with thirty seconds I could use, but it's only a three-minute-thirty-second song, so I just need to do that six more times, right? ;-)

Biweekly Theater Writing Challenge #14 - Mrs. Hawking 1.2

Okay, the whole "biweekly" thing fell by the wayside when I was occupied by turning Tailor into a screenplay because I didn't want to repost scenes that were too similar to what you'd already read. But I did generate some pieces of prose fiction for Fallen, and hey, I have a whole screenplay now. But it's time to go back to regular drama. Finally, after picking at it every day for a week, I have finished what I believe will be scene two of my play-in-progress Mrs. Hawking, the scene that immediately follows this one. It's supposed to demonstrate the challenges that Mary is going to face getting along in Mrs. Hawking's employ-- the fact that Mrs. Hawking doesn't want her there, and insists she doesn't have any use for her, preferring that she stay quiet and out of the way. And Mary's got it tough enough as it is, with her parents' death and her life turned upside down, without Mrs. Hawking making it any harder on her. 

( Mrs. Hawking, act one scene two )