A very exciting week for us at SCDT because we had our first few days of rehearsal in the Kattan/Landau Studios at The Auditorium Theatre!!

I like to call it “Show Mode”, but the closer we get to a performance, the more I zero in and get to focus on preparing for being on the big stage for our home season show! One of the best parts of this time is being in a bigger space. Luckily, on the Roosevelt University campus, there’s a giant studio the exact size of the Auditorium Theatre stage. This is helpful so that we can space our dances, hit our marks, and get used to traveling in a big space.

Why is this so important to us as dancers?

We have to be spatially smart. A piece may be choreographed with exactly 4 steps to get to our next formation and you HAVE to do those 4 steps on the exact beat of the music. When you are in a bigger space, those four steps have to be much larger and you have to get a feel of exactly how to move/how to perform those choreographed movements.

More space also allows our Rehearsal Director to view the piece how one would see it on stage. For lack of a better way of explaining it, you can “zoom out” and see the big picture of the performance!

TWO MORE WEEKS until the big stage!! I’ll take you along for the journey, but we are surely excited to be so close to such a wonderful show.

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