With one day to go before the show, the Monks Park team arrived to find Dyrham Park buzzing with preparations for the show. They met the other contributing artists’ and worked through a show-plan with Dark Spark and the Lead Artist. They rehearsed their routine and devised new elements with Mr Butcher.
The Monks Park team look at Dark Sparks’ plan for the Fire Drawing with Mr Butcher (Extra Curricular Activities Leader).
“At my signal, unleash hell!” Nathan working with the Monks Park group.
We devise how the team will find their positions in the dark, ready for their routine, after opening the show by leading a procession indicating how water flowed to Neptune’s Statue. That evening they work untill 2am attaching strips of blue material to their boiler suits to make themselves into Naiads. See images of the procession from the show to see how effective this was.
Final preparation for ‘re-creating’ the cascade which flowed down Neptune’s Hill.
The team had rehearsed their routine off-site, and planned to represent the cascade by through a choreographed descent under a large piece of white fabric. During the course of the day working on site, they decided it would be safer, and improve the routine if they worked on top of the fabric.
