The Heron Dance

The Heron Dance is 

performed slowly.

Wicked | Ozdust Ballroom

"It wasn't enough just to have a piece of choreography, 

it needed to show the pain that she was enduring 

but also the surrender to being 

okay with being alone --

"When I move as Elphaba, I feel -- free is 

the first word that comes to mind 

because she's consistently 

defying convention --"

"It's one of those moments that 

can't feel choreographed -- 

this has to look 

like Elphaba doing 

this in real time, 

for the first time --

"I love there was a turn where 

you start, just get a little 

bit frightened by her --"

We had to create that language with Cynthia. 

So Cynthia finding the sharp edges 

and finding how her fingers move 

and that really informed everything, 

so to see like that Spirit rides inside 

of her when she put that hat back on 

she put it on and it wasn't choreographed --

But the dialogue that she's having is, 

"There's a change in me", you can look 

at what she's saying but we can't understand 

until galinda comes in and validates her 

and now we can all say "Okay, I get it --"

"It's a moment of connecting their instincts are incredible -- they're so deep in those characters, that 

it really was the easiest part of this piece -- this actually happened rehearsal, and it was a moment 

that you thought was never going to happen again 

but they reached across and A Tear, like, 

on cue, poured out of Cynthia's eye 

and Arriana just gave it a little wipe --  

it was so powerful everyone in 

the room felt it with her; 

Everyone was just kind of holding space 

for Elphaba in that room and you could 

hear a pin drop every second of t

hat entire day --

The most special moment to have 

experienced, it really does feel like [Applause] magic Wicked