[superdave]

I love this dance... has anyone got the pleasure of doing it???? Ours is based on the original Broadway Choreography. Infact, all of our choreography is based on the original Jerome Robins Choreography. Which makes for a very awesome experience. I havent dropped the bottle yet, and no we arent using velcro. Its all balance.

[Mark Walton]

In the movie, all the bottles are nearly full. What about your production?

[superdave]

Nope, Of course we may fill them...I dont know...I doubt it.

[RachaelB]

I haven't seen the bottle dance in rehersals yet but iv'e seen the to life scene and weve got some amazing dancers so im really looking forward to see the bottle dance!xxx

[Monsieur D'Arque]

I saw one very, very good production in which the dance was performed without hats. They just balanced the bottles on their heads- and no one dropped one! It was amazing.

[star2ballie]

[superdave]

Without hats? Nah. I dont think that would look good visually. Impressive, but part of the mystery of the dance is that when you pop up and they see that there was nothing on your hat keeping the bottle down...makes it even more thrilling.

[RachaelB]

Just sen the first rehersal of the bottle dance... one word... amazing!lol it looked fab and it was their first rehersal they did really great and i can't wait to see it when theyve nailed it!xxx

[Eponine93]

Velcrow can look pretty fake... in my production, we did it with velcrow. At one of the dress reherasals, one of the dancer's bottles ended up entirely horizontal.

[superdave]

It is really not that difficult to balance the bottle on your head, you just have to keep perfect posture and make very defined slow movements.

[mcfly2015]

Our bottle dancers actually got the dance down the 1st time they did it....we have some excellent guys doing it....they are also doubling as some of our Russian dancers during To Life. Most of our choreography is based off of the original. Anyways, we open March 1st, so hopefully I will have some good pictures to show everyone.

[superdave]

We open on FRIDAY!!!!!!!!

[schoogie]

in our production, the bottle dancers have hats rigged up with holes in them that the bottles fit into. from the audience it just looks like the hat has a normal indent, so it works quite well the dance they do is a lot like the one done in the movie

[Francois]

in myproduction, they did not use velcro, though they did use hats, which help immensely, as they give the bottle somewhere to "sit". They had a little bit of sand in the bottom to make them bottom-heavy. None of the bottle-dancers WANTED them to be stuck on; they enjoyed the thrill of balancing them for real. If someone's bottle fell, they simply caught it and stepped out of the dance, and they had worked it out so the steps could be altered with a couple of dancers dropping out.

This made it MUCH more exciting for the dancers and the rest of us who were watching, and once someone's bottle ever DID fall (usually no more than 1-2 of the 8 of them per show), the audience realized the balancing was real and appreciated it all that much more. ONly once or twice did a bottle actually fall on the stage and break--in that case "Mordcha" just got a broom and swept it up as he would in real life. It was an outdoor production with a raked stage, so perhaps it was easier to to this than on an inside, flat stage.