Choreography

Our piece aims to combine the style of Spring Awakening's original

Tony award winning choreography by Bill T.Jones, and Spencer Liff's use of
sign language during the 2015/16 Deaf West revival of the show on
Broadway.
Mama Who Bore Me opens the show and is perhaps one of the most
iconic songs in it. We knew that our opening song would have to make a
similar impact, as it would need to clearly demonstrate our theme and set
the pace for the rest of our piece. It is for this reason that after choosing
Let It Go from Frozen to replace Mama Who Bore Me, we decided to mimic
Bill T.Jones choreography for the original off-broadway production, as that
in itself is a well known set of movement. This way, our audience would
instantly have a visual understanding of what we had decided to do.
From then on, we integrated hints of original choreography, nods to
the quirky Brechtian style of the piece and the overall 'rock concert' vibe,
and used British Sign Language throughout to fully immerse each Disney
song into the Spring Awakening style. It was important to keep the signing a
part of the choreography, as opposed to having literal translations of each
song, because those hard of hearing shouldn't feel as though they're seeing
special captioned performance of a musical, they should be able to see the
real thing.