(Dress Rehearsal) Weekly Log

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It's early November at Harugaizumi International School. Last week, the whole school put on a cultural festival, with the School Idol Club having a performance in the gym. You got a pretty decent turnout, but that's no reason to rest on your laurels; practice and school both continue this week! Have fun, check out the setting, and keep your ears open. You never know what opportunities will pop up for you!



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Comments

[saltedcarmel]

I've noticed that hand movements are really popular and they're and easy way to distract people.

[She starts moving her arms to some imaginary beat that's not quite their actual song, but it illustrates her point. Notably, all her legs movements are relatively simple.]

I would say maybe vogueing [said in English] but I don't think everyone is sharp enough to make it look really good.

[Absently, as she's talking, she starts to move her arms and do some basic as hell vogueing.]

[nmc0204]

[ Ryoko's hand goes to her chin and her eyes narrow a bit as she takes it in. The vogueing might be a little too complicated for everyone to do, but... ]

Who do you think might be able to pull it off? If we could get a handful of people in the center doing it with everyone else doing something a bit simpler while the attention isn't on them, I think that might give us the edge we need.

[saltedcarmel]

Hmmmm... You, me, and Nanako-kun, maybe? I'd say Miko, but I'm not sure if she'll focus on it, you know?

[The girl has........ ADHD brain. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink!! Also, yeah. She refers to everyone by last name except for Miko. It's American solidarity.]

[nmc0204]

[ Ryoko dips her head in a nod. ]

Then I'd like to learn. Even if we can't use it right away, it'll be useful to have it as part of our skillsets.

[saltedcarmel]

Sure! The basics are kind of like... you know Egyptian hieroglyphs? It's meant to look like that.

[She demonstrates a little again, but more slowly so it's easier to see what she's doing.]

You want fluid but precise movement.

[nmc0204]

Of all the places to go for inspiration for an idol group...

[ But it's not a complaint. Ryoko follows along with her movements as best she can – she's got the movements themselves down, but her motion isn't quite snappy and precise enough. Given enough practice, though, she'll probably get it. ]

This would work best with something that has quite a heavy beat, don't you think?

[saltedcarmel]

A lot of the pro idols do it! So you don't need a super heavy beat, but something with energy. Like this.

[She starts humming one of their more energetic songs, and does some voguing to it, and it's probably not anything like choreography that they'd do as a group, but it looks good when she does it. It's all that dance training jumping out.]

For us, though, it's useful when you're doing a solo. Like, if you're center, you can do this while the rest of us move around and save some breath.

[nmc0204]

I see... I wouldn't have thought to try something like this before, but it's surprisingly useful...

[ She hums to herself in thought before continuing. ]

Should we pick out one of our songs and see if we can work something like this into the choreography?