Watching

Fun with tape measure, percussion and half-forgotten dance moves

Today was Music in the Community’s first seminar of semester two, and that can only mean one thing – preparations for Watching are underway!

One of the first things we did was measure each other for our costumes (which, incidentally, are going to look fantastic!). With a class of 20-odd students and two 150cm tape measures, it was a bit of challenge but we managed. Roll on February 2nd when we can try on our costumes…keep an eye out for the pictures.

Our next task was to do some improvisation with percussion (cowbells, shakers, thumb pianos etc.) in order to create a soundscape depicting the ticking of a clock. The plan is to play this at the start of the show as we stand among a giant projection of a clock, and it sounded really good, so hopefully it should keep getting better the more accustomed we become to our instruments.

Ahead of meeting the children of Leith Walk Primary School next week, we spent some time recapping on the main choruses of the show and trying to remember the choreography for ‘Tick Tock’, which we made up with Skye Reynolds back in November. It was a bit tricky with no video to refer to, but we just about managed.

All in all, it was a productive session and we’re all really excited to show the children our ideas next week. Stay tuned to see how we get on!