So, we decided to take Wednesday off and come back on Thursday to work on our scene. Of course we weren't completely inept.
We actually looked up performances of The Man Who Couldn't Dance by other people. We looked at what worked and what didn't and incorporated what worked into our own adaptation.
For example in one adaptation, there was one time that Eric goes up to Gail and hugs her from behind. It was when he asked her if she loved Fred or not. We thought that it worked. So we tried it out. One thing I found out about Teck Sern is that, he might be 19, but he has never, ever had a girlfriend before in his life. So he had to ask me how he was to hug me from behind. To be honest, there is nothing wrong with never having a girlfriend, its just that its really rare these days. And he is one of those really rare ones.
We also worked on Teck Sern's groundedness. We did our blocking and every time he were to start fidgeting, I would say things like, "hands" or "legs". It frustrates him sometimes, but it works in some ways :)
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