Jazz

The production and my role:

Jazz appeared on the spring line-up as the week 6 weekend show, with performances from March 21st-23rd, 2025.

The show called for more casual violence that was more threatening than physical. The sequences that I choreographed included, arm grabs, shoves and collar grabs. This was a student-written script, so I worked alongside the writer/director to ensure there was reason and build to the violence/threat being portrayed on stage. It was important for me to establish actor comfortability, and work through different stagings of actions to see what felt natural for actors. This, of course, was done so in an environment that encouraged collabration, but when it got to the technicalities of actioning the fight, the following of specific choreography for actor safety. In the end, we were able to choose those sequences that were most realistic/flowed most comfortably for the actors involved to include in the show. I was present throughout our production day to check-in with actors and run a fight call before the show began.

It was an absolute joy being a small part of this amazing show!