… "The Bear Necessities"

How to Achieve an Artistic Performance in this song?

  1. Your Role in performing this song is… The Actor
Delivery: The audience should feel like they are watching a play.
  • Basses: You are the main character, the Bear.
  • Other sections: You are the group who is heeding and reacting to the bears' words of wisdom, i.e. you are the "straight man" in this performance. 
    The audience will not be totally focused on the bears - the are also watching you for cues.
    The audience will identify with you, and listen and react to the bears' words as you do.
    You are the role model for the audience reactions.

Basses - Use the Audience and the Director as the Focal Points…

When you are following the director, make him the person to whom you are expressing your words of wisdom.
When you are looking at the audience, make them the focal point of the expression of your words of wisdom.

Other Sections -

  1. Identify the emotions, visualizations, and physical movement that is being referenced in this song,
  2. Use your "expressers" to create the below referenced experiences and reactions in the audience.
Emotion: Fun, humour
Spirit: Basses - The Bears: Colourful, Bravado, Happy, Carefree, Lovable
Other sections - Acknowledge and reflect the bear's words of wisdom.
Visual:  
Physical: Basses - Animate and Over-do your expressions because you are so "wise and profound".

Performance Eyes…

Directed to a Large Group - Eyes are Least Focused and Most Breadth

Musical Execution…

Feel and execute the back-beat and swing feel of the music.

The Challenge of this Piece…

Keeping quality in the vocal production and unit sound with all the characterization and physical movement that is going on.

Attachment: 
PDF icon NWS Artistic Concepts - Bear Necessities.pdf
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