Oct 23
by Gareth Price-Baghurst in News 0 comments tags: Cabaret, Cabaret Macabre, Cart, Choir, City of Culture 2021, clocking, clowning, Collaboration, Comedy, Coventry, Coventry 2021, Coventry University, Dante Cabaret, Dark Humour, Entertainment, Epic, Fabularium, Fargo Village, French Horror Theatre, Gore, Gory, Grand Guignol, Halloween, Humour, Live Music, Macabre, Mask, Poster, Singing, Stilt Walking, TAPP, The Box, The Fabularium, theatre and professional practice, Third Years, Wagon

Live Briefs @ Coventry University – WEEK 3

  It’s been a BUSY week. The pressure was ON and with less than 2 weeks until opening night…. But the students are all rising to all the challenges and pulling out all the stops to get this production up and ready! The story line is being honed, the cabaret acts have been decided and being rehearsed throughout the week with major developments for production and make up, music is being written and rehearsed faster than you can imagine and marketing have been busy promoting this show like crazy! Check out Dante Cabaret Facebook and Instagram to follow live updates… Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dantecabaret18/     Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dantecabaret/   We also held an advanced Acro session to really push the students who wanted to develop that skill. We saw some amazing results in only a few hours and with boosted confidence the students began to combine tricks to start making a routine – The Boneyard Tumblers.   We also attempted a 4 part harmony version of ‘Allegri’ with the 30 performers, and with only an hour or so for the separate parts to practice, the first time we pulled all 4 sections together sounded quite spectacular and is now indeed being used in the […]
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Oct 14
by Gareth Price-Baghurst in News, Rehearsals 0 comments tags: Cabaret, Cabaret Macabre, Cart, Choir, City of Culture 2021, clocking, clowning, Collaboration, Comedy, Coventry, Coventry 2021, Coventry University, Dante Cabaret, Dark Humour, Entertainment, Epic, Fabularium, Fargo Village, French Horror Theatre, Gore, Gory, Grand Guignol, Halloween, Humour, Live Music, Macabre, Mask, Poster, Singing, Stilt Walking, TAPP, The Box, The Fabularium, theatre and professional practice, Third Years, Wagon

Live Briefs @ Coventry University – WEEK 2

How goes it folks!   Week 2 down, and it’s been another fun and adventurous one filled with construction, devising, improvising, clowning, singing and music, jamming, stilting, and general play!     So the Wagon has been built and setup ready for the students to explore and become familiar with. We’ve been setting various devising tasks throughout the week for them to produce scenes that they can present on the Wagon, and there’s been some great developments and creations! We also took some time to explore clowning and audience clocking, so that the group can embrace the engagement they will have with their audience during the shows.     One of our tasks was dishing out cabaret acts that we want to see in the show, and what the students came back with was wonderful! Amazing, entertaining, hilarious and downright dark humoured acts that had us in stitches as well as creeped out! They’ve really started hitting the nail on the head and produced some quality acts that will be fantastic for halloween! And so we’ve collected some together, asked for people to continue working on new ideas, and have a good handful of acts that we’re happy to start […]
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