The way that Cynthia lets us in to Elphaba
in the Ozdust ballroom is so special and so
moving and it is a massive turning point for
both Elphaba and Glinda and I think it was
just such a beautiful experience and everyone
was just kind of holding space for Elphaba
in that room and you could hear a pin
drop every second of that entire day.
It was really, really beautiful.
It wasn't enough just to have a piece of
choreography because then it would just be
choreography, it's just her dancing.
What we were looking for was what was she
trying to say with this piece and what was
she trying to do and once we got to the
crux of it,
once we got to the center of what this
piece was for her,
then we could
find the language,
the words and the words are the
movement,
the singular movements that we put
together to create an entire paragraph or
a sentence or a song and that's the language we had to find.
So once we found what we wanted,
all those things came together to share the
pain that she was enduring and to share the
loneliness and to share the defiance but also
the surrender to being okay with being alone.