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In the swim: choreographer Stephen Mear puts Mermaid's dancers on wheels.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-NOV-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: In the swim: choreographer Stephen Mear puts Mermaid's dancers on wheels.(on broadway)(The Little Mermaid)

Article Excerpt
No flying.

In the animated version of the Hans Christian Andersen tale The Little Mermaid, Ariel and her friends below the sea could go up, down and sideways with complete freedom. But the director of the stage adaptation, Francesca Zambello, had made it clear that she didn't want her underwater creatures "swimming" with the aid of harnesses and wires. "She was looking for something more abstract," says Stephen Mear, the choreographer.

As co-choreographer (with Matthew Bourne) on Mary Poppins, he was well-acquainted with the limitations of choreographing for airborne dancers--"You're hampered by the wires," Mear says. He didn't mind finding another solution for Little Mermaid. But what? He was pondering the problem three years ago while ambling through Disney World in Orlando.

"As I was walking," he remembers...

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