We walked in, and the choreographer said 'drop and give me twenty.' He was serious. The show involves aerial work (obviously), so strength is key. Most of the dancers got through the twenty pushups on adrenaline.
Then we did a floor routine like combination, rapid frontward and backward somersaults, handstands, ending in a bit of sexy spidery dance. We practiced it in too large groups and one girl got wacked in the face and bled.
Then another contemporary dance spidery dance with slides and crawls. And for the last twenty seconds we were supposed to Krump (a spastic, intense form of hip-hop that often involves clown make-up).
Push-ups, somersaults, and musical theater dancers krumping? It was memorable. No one was kept for further dancing or singing, so perhaps it was all for the amusement of the choreographer and his assistants. They were terribly nice.
