An Appropriate Venue

[impulsereader]

The dance lesson chapter begins in chaos. That works, but I have to corral it all in for the actual lesson. I don't, however, have enough room in the flat for said lesson.

So what do we think? Dance lesson at Bart's? The morgue is tempting but the acoustics would be pants and I'm not sure the work tables would be movable. The briefing room of New Scotland Yard? Other ideas are very welcome.

I've also realized I have enough characters involved that John can be spared the role of 'not exactly clueless but very definitely insecure student' in this installment. He won't be miraculously fantastic, but he can have some skillz and natural talent in this area.

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[northernwalker]

I think Sally should be a tango expert. And Sherlock should be very unthrilled and unskilled. Molly likes to waltz. Anderson teaches swing.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

Hee! You're in 221b_hound's Guitar Man series rather than mine. :-) Sorry, I don't do Sally or Anderson. I do think Sherlock would be quite unthrilled, except that the lesson also involves a visit from some of his favorite relatives. :-)

[f-m-r-l.livejournal.com]

Otherwise deserted parking garage. The acoustics would be weird, but the atmosphere would be striking. *grin*

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

Atmospheric indeed. This is the sort of thing I wish I could have fun going out and tracking down myself. Oh, to be in London!

[pargoletta.livejournal.com]

Not to burst too much of your bubble or anything, but a lot of the dance styles we talked about last night are taught in London. You don't need to have a special dance lesson unless the Holmeses do some really really obscure type of dancing. Otherwise, your merry band can ask the Intarwebz where the nearest dance group meets, and just join in. A lot of dance classes meet weekly, for a nominal fee, the way they do here.

Also . . . forgot to mention this last night: If you go whole hog and make the Holmes clan Scottish dancers, you can put everyone into the Full Dancing Kit. Women, that's generally a long, simple ballgown, often white, to show off the (family, if they've got one; Black Watch or Royal Stewart if they don't) tartan sash. Men get to wear a kilt, with belt and sporran, long socks with flashes at the knees, a little dagger in one sock, a dress shirt, and a Bonnie Prince Charlie jacket. Everyone wears dance ghillies. Picture Sherlock in this getup. Google Image it if you have to. Then decide what sort of dancing they should do.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

Not bursting, informing. :-) The idea is more that they're being taught the specific choreography which will be performed at the end of the play, so even if some of the characters are familiar with the steps they can still reasonably be subjected to this one session so that they can then practice this particular sequence on their own and be 'fluent', as it were, once the performance rolls around. And, really, the focus is John and Sherlock. Everyone else is just along for the ride so some of them being somewhat experienced would actually be a plus (I bet Molly is going to know what she's doing.). Of course, at least one of them is going to have to prove completely clueless for comedic effect.

Lots of youtubing and googling going on. :-)

[azriona.livejournal.com]

What about 221C as a location? It's empty, and there's at least one decently spacious room according to TGG. (Assuming it's only John and Sherlock and maybe one other person attending the lesson, of course.)

If it's for everyone, though - wouldn't it make more sense to have a weekend at the house to gather everyone together? Especially if they're all scattered across Britain, they'd need somewhere central to go.