Composing A Score

As the next few weeks went on, the story of The Tiger’s Bride became more evident in our performance. Scenes evolved from the previous material, i.e. songs, dance routines, gestures we had devised. An overall structure looked like this:

VC2908 Performance Project

SCORE

Step 1: Everyone goes around the piano

Step 2: Everyone speaks in rhubarb

Step 3: 3 movers around the piano that alternate places, 4 positions – each moves at separate times, one after the other; the last of which comes after the second position

Step 4: Boys introduce bass

Step 5: Gestures explaining the story, i.e. “day”, “father”, “daughter”

Step 6: Introduce Marin and Aleksi as Daughter and Father and partner work in centre of stage.

Step 7: Chorus move in huddle around the round eventually forming big group

Step 8: Laura moves the chair to centre, Aleksi begins father work ‘karmodabill’

Step 9: Choral work in the corner beside Aleksi, i.e. “lonely”, “father”, “family”, “love”

Step 10: Chorus move around Aleksi copying his gestures, chair gets moved to corner and table gets moved for gambling

Step 11: Boys follow Aleksi, girls put Marin to sleep on chair with gestures, i.e. “night”, “dream”, “Sleep” “gambling”

Step 12: Boys starts gambling, Lindsey runs interacts with gambling telling the girls – build up tension/noises around scene

Step 13: Daughter wakes up after the girls use a heightened version of the word “gambling”

Step 14: Eee-eeeeh…….. girls come into semi – circle around gambling scene, Daughter looks in from afar

Step 15: Pause, intake of breath into breathing beats of ‘Dash Boq’

Step 16: This leads into mutation of gambling scene – Build-up of sounds (George)

Step 17: Manipulation of the relationship between father and daughter – ‘gillom, gillom’ – lift Marin, chorus drop her infront of David and disperse

Step 18: Aleksi come on as servant in shirt, Aleksi’s monologue as chorus repeat his gestures moving to piano

Step 19: Chorus quietly hum waltz song as they watch the scene with Marin, David and Aleksi unfolds

Step 18: Everyone morphs into animals

Step 19: ‘Island’ song, (‘sweat dreams’)

Step 20: Neutrality sifting into the clockwork line, line breaks off in individual sections, Aleski struggling to maintain control

Step 21: Beast and the girl (moment of silence) “reveal”

Step 22: Waltz singing

Step 23: ‘Coming of Age’ – dance – Gabi’s motif accompanied by chords

Step 24: Move Marin to chair, falls asleep. Chorus scatter/ depart

Step 25: Marin awakes, with Aleksi by her side – Father/daughter moment

Step 26: Chorus come and join, massive reprise of sweet dreams as a choral family (bows)

 

                                                                                    FIN