The Making of Dry: DANCE VER.

The Making of Dry: DANCE VERSION.
Alexandrea reads out the formation. "We have exactly 16 main cast members. Formation 1, four rows, 2-3-5-6." That meant the first row had two girls, the second had 3, and so on. "Formation 2, two rows, 8-8. Formation 3, four rows, 1-4-5-6. Formation 4, four rows, 5-4-2-5." She laid out a chart paper that had the formations drawn on it.

Formation 1:
Angel, Luna
Sassan, Evie, Fracken
Maya, Harley, River, Rosie, Luraland
Alison, Lilybell, Reece, Marti, Rome, Katerina

Formation 2:
Fracken, Katerina, Marti, Rosie, Luraland, Harley, Alison, Reece
Rome, Lilybell, Sassan, Angel, River, Evie, Maya, Luna

Formation 3:
Evie
Angel, Sassan, Fracken, Luna
Maya, Marti, Lilybell, Alison, Katerina
Reece, Harley, River, Rosie, Luraland, Rome

Formation 4:
Sassan, Fracken, Angel, Luna, Evie
River, Rosie, Luraland, Reece
Maya, Harley
Katerina, Marti, Rome, Lilybell, Alison

I have to say, Formation 3 scares me the most.
"These are mostly stage formations," Alexandrea says. "We're going to briefly work on the stage choreography, and then you'll record the single, and then the PV and MV."
So the music she had was off vocal, only instrumental. "Alright," Alexandrea says, "This is basically the dance. Watch." She turns on the music and starts a seemingly complicated dance sequence. "Here we go now, one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, and spin, back, slide, four, and one, turn, arms, and four, and dryyyyyyy!"
Alexandrea drops, demonstrating one part, and immediately springs up, demonstrating another part that goes on at the same time. She finishes the dance sequence. I'm not sure I followed any of that... "You good?"
I glance over at Luna and Sassan and Angel, who are already quickly going over the dance in their minds, vaguely moving their bodies. "We're good," Luna calls.
"Great," Alexandrea says, and throws her towel over her shoulder. "Be back in an hour."
Rome and I watch her leave with wide eyes. Did the girls get the dance after watching it once? With the coupling songs, she usually breaks it down for us, line by line, and then gives us some time to get our act together, and then comes back and starts the fix-up process.
Luna has the choreography sheet. "It follows the formation numbers almost exactly. Start of Formation 1, switch to 2 at the chorus, second verse to 3, switch to four halfway through, back to 1, chorus, three, ending 1."
Luna starts the music. It seems as if all the others have picked up the dance moves after only seeing it once. Am I the only one fumbling in the dark?
After a couple times into the dance, I'm pretty sure I have it down. "Evie," Angel stops the music and faces me. We are in Formation 3. "Evie, you're at the tip. You need to keep in mind that you are in the position. The centre position, where no one is in front of you. You are at the front. So be sure of your actions. Dance, because everyone behind is looking up to you, like how you used to do up until now. We're all here, okay? We're going to support you through the song, so throw away your fears, smile, dance, and sing."
Angel's wonderful words...are cut to pieces as soon as the last formation check before the hour is up begins. It is the job of the captains, senior members, and centres to lead the formation check. They stand at the front, while we go through the song, and they pick on every single thing that can be improved.
Luna claps her hands. As the captain of Team Night, fabled for their star power image, she usually leads formation checks. "Great, we'll take the far line of Formation 2 first."
After that -__-
"Evie, bigger step!"
"Evie, ninety degrees in the left hand!"
"Evie, thrust your hip more sharply!"
"Evie, make your movements more decisive! You're centre in this formation!"
"Evie, MOVE FASTER!"
Yup. Evie, that's me.
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