Attitudes Anonymous
SCRIPT: Diane Porsch
Region 16 – Music Team Seminar
January 2006
Attitudes Anonymous Scenarios #7 & 8
SCENARIO #7
Facilitator: ____________________
CHAPTER NAME & LOCATION: Glass Slipper Chapter, Danceville, Ontario
TIME OF YEAR:
November
SITE: Your
rehearsal hall
SCENE:
Your chorus was pleased with its C+ scores in
Music, Sound and Expression last spring, but very dismayed at the Showmanship scores…which were a complete level lower.
Stamina is an issue for your aging chorus and choreography is rarely presented as a unit due to a lack of energy.
In spite of this, your Director feels the Showmanship
scores were lower because the chorus is tired of the current uptune and simply needs a new one.
The Harborlites performed a new Greg Volk arrangement
of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” at International last fall and it’s became your Director’s FAVORITE song. As a result your chorus has learned this song to the best of their ability and are
ready for the new & very complicated choreography plan to be introduced tonight.
YOUR CHOREOGRAPHER is 24 years old and majored
in DANCE. She joined your chorus two years ago and though she’s been exposed to some dusty videos of Champion Choruses
from 1989 and 1990…she’s seen nothing representative of recent S.A. Champions NOR
has she ever attended an International Contest. Her choreography style is focused
on individual moves to specific lyrics…making it gesture-oriented. The flow of the vocal line is disrupted frequently.
Everyone, however, is so thrilled to have this young talent in the chorus…that
they knowingly do whatever she teaches in order to retain her as a member. No one, including the Director, wishes to discourage
her in any way….yet what the chorus is doing, visually, is a complete disaster at this point.
CHARACTERS
THAT NEED ASSIGNING:
- Director who talks to the chorus about their low
Showmanship Scores from last Spring
- And explains the choice of the new uptune…”Row,
Row, Row Your Boat”...
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Choreographer:
Young and enthusiastic…with a major in DANCE…but has no clue About using movement to ENHANCE vocal product. A good teacher…but teaches
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Things that disrupt the musical flow of the ensemble.
SCENARIO
#8
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Facilitator:
_________________________
Become
familiar with SCENARIO #7 – And, using same personnel, create a role play which fixes the situation by sharing, with
the audience, how to approach this new choreographer…before she’s given this task.
Then role play the situation as it would be had solid communication and education taken place FIRST…
