Rose Red

Update: There's a now a Rose Red DVD out that includes "The Making Of..." We're in it briefly (on video, dancing/working with the actors, not interviewed). Yippee ha!  A couple of the actors said glowing things about how much fun the dancing was. That gave us the warm fuzzies.   

One of our most interesting recent endeavors was for a Steven King / ABC miniseries entitled 'Rose Red'. Mr. King had written in a 2 minute swing dance scene for 6 of the characters and they needed someone to choreograph the scene and teach the actors to dance. It was with great pleasure that we received a call asking if we would be available to work with the actors through November, 2000.  What could we say but YES!

The actors turned out to be absolutely wonderful people to work with, though most had little or no dance training and they were sometimes squeezing in mini dance lessons between 'takes'.  This occasionally meant as little as 5 minutes of focused dancing in one of the rooms on the set and then hustling back to the scene they were shooting in another room - only to return 10 minutes later for more lessons.  

They seemed to have a lot of fun with this, and we certainly had a blast working with them and watching them shoot various scenes. On the final day of the shoot, they surprised us with a gift copy of the movie script on which all of them signed and some wrote the following:

The miniseries was filmed in a number of locations in Seattle, with the primary set at the Sandpoint Naval base on Lake Washington.  They had recreated a full mansion with all of it's rooms in one of the hangers at the base.  It was unbelievably beautiful - hopefully worth the reported $5 million they spent on the set.

The miniseries aired on ABC Jan 27-31, 2002.

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