Hi, everyone.
I'm Carrie-Ann Ingrouille, I'm the choreographer of Six,
and I'm here with Playbill to teach you the final chorus of “Six”.
Choreographing Six has been amazing.
I'm so pleased that
Toby and Lucy gave me the chance to do so.
I think the thing that really drew me to it was the fact that
it's an all woman show.
Like, I love the fact that we have six principles.
I love the fact that we're talking about women's history.
Women's stories and kind of rewriting everything.
And the music just gives me so much to work with.
They did it so well.
And so I feel like I'm able to get a little kind of melting pot of everything.
They're choreographic.
The movement is Six.
I wanted to make sure that there was like a different palette for each queen.
So each queen has got such a different story, such a different history with Henry
and so many different mannerisms within themselves that I wanted
to make sure that we weren't looking at the same picture six times. So
for example, with Catherine of Aragon is quite like a Spanish feel in the music.
There's a little bit of a house we feel.
So within the choreography, we've kind of got a little bit of those elements,
whereas with Boleyn we go much more for kind of like a rock element.
So we're able to kind of like pull on a few different strings.
So you ready?
We're going to learn
the final chorus of “Six” with our lovely alternates, Courtney and Mallory.
Okay, everyone, I hope you’re warmed up ready to go.
Like I said, this is the final chorus of “Six”.
So what we're going to do is we're going to take our right arm.
Left arm is going to be behind the back, and we've just got our finger out
this way, and we're going to take the arm back eight times.
Your elbow is going to come forward the right thing is going to go back.
I'm going to go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
But as you do that, we're going to do a little jump
on the balls of the feet as well.
So just make sure your knees are nice and soft and the arm is going
back at the same time as yourself hitting the floor.
So we're going 6,7,8, we go 1
two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Then from here, we're going to step out with the right foot.
We're going to make a fist with this right hand, very kind of like cheerleader.
And we're going to pop our left hand on to our hip at the same time.
So from here, we're stepping out to the right one.
And if you can see our hips are going ever so slightly to the right,
then we're going to go over to the left and we're just going to bend this hand
over your head
and we're going to keep doing that motion for another eight counts.
If you just get used to kind of almost like wagging your tail
and then just taking the arm over and above your head
just like you were waving a flag.
So we're going to do eight of those as well.
So we've just finished the jump here, 6,7, 8.
We step out, change the arms.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
So let's join those two things together.
You ready? Feet underneath you go.
Six, seven, eight.
And go. One of a kind
Five, six, seven and two many years five, six, seven.
And how you got that so far?
So from here, this arm is going to remain.
Let's just bring the feet together slightly in the show.
We do a lot of things related around sort of like crowns, obviously, with it
being the queendom.
So what I want you to do is take your little finger
and put it at the front of your head and your thumb and kind of put
it round the back and you're going to spike your fingers in between.
So you kind of wrist is a little bit piked, if that makes sense.
So once you've got the idea of that shape, we're actually going to use that
as an arm going out.
So it's kind of if you get that shape, then you'll be able to
see what the arm is doing out to the side.
And this arm so it will actually be over your head.
It's never actually going to go on to your head.
That was just for you to get the shape from here.
We're going to go out, come into the shoulder, out,
come into the shoulder, and then we're going to do
one final swoop down and up to a nice sort of high V. Yes.
That is going to be going on free to take all crowning glory.
So I keep going to my crown to go to your crown.
Well, you can go to your crown whenever you like, but not in this choreo.
So from here we go free to take our crowning glory here.
Yeah, the feet are going to go from our little tail wag here.
We're just going to go step to the right, pull in your left foot,
step to the left, pull in your right foot, repeat the same thing again.
So there's this nice kind of, like, drag feeling.
You can use the hips, you can make it kind of a swimmey dragging as you like.
So when we step out, that's when the arm is going to be going to the side.
So we've just finished our hip fracture over to the left hand side.
We step on the right.
This is going free to take.
Crown and Glory four.
Then when we say five more minutes very simple.
We make a five with the right hand.
We're going to bring this foot together and we're going to bounce four times
the bounce rather than just going down, is going to actually kind of push
a little bit back and a little bit forward to the pelvis and knees
are coming forward and the upper body is kind of going a little further back.
Careful that you don't just do it with the upper back
because that would be a little bit too much strain there.
So from here, we've just taken the arm all the way up.
Let's join the bouncers in the five.
Together we go five more men knit than the last little piece of the choreo
We take the right hand at, right hand behind, right leg behind.
And we're going right left, right hand.
So we kind of make like a superhero pose at the end.
So let's just go back to five more minutes.
We go five more minutes
We go right, left, right hand.
And then imagine it won't do this in the song.
But imagine there's a we're six
and we're going to just hold one little bit
and then we're going to do the famous superhero punch at the end
and we're going to punch.
All right, hands up in the air.
Left hand's just going to come down this way.
So you finish nice and strong in that little diagonal line.
Yeah. So we try the whole thing
We’re warm, we’re warm. We’re getting there.
So let us go from the jumps that goes into the little flag waves
above your head that goes into the outer reaches.
And then we have the little pump on five you got this ready?
She got six behind seven a one of a kind.
Five, six, seven.
We go out too many years.
Love in his story.
We we go free to tape crowning glory for five.
Follow the net right left, right, hip.
We go out.
Yeah. How is that? You got it.
I think you should see these people dancing it!
Ready?
Five, six, seven.
Thank you for watching.
Thank you Playbill!
and you can catch at Six at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre