When my school did Fiddler they too did the bottle dance without rigged hats or Velcro anything. Let me tell you that is one of the biggest reasons I feel we aren't doing Fiddle for a few years.
Wow. It's one thing to do the bottle dance without magnets or velcro or rigged hats. But these guys are doing it with *empty bottles*--not even colored water--which is taking it to a whole new level. I am in awe.
Did the show twice, 10 years apart and never used "tricks" with the bottles. Choreographer (my mother) said if a bottle was dropped, the dancer had to step out of "the line." A bottle was never dropped during any of the performances of either run! Not bad for community theater! Loved helping translate Jerome Robbins choreography from the book. Fiddler always makes me wish I were a guy dancer!
When we did fiddler on the roof in high school I was the starting bottle dancer XD we used velcro though. When we first started learning it, we didn't realize we needed knee pads. We went out and bought those real quick, the first night we practiced we wrapped our knees in bubble wrap.
I saw this at a high school with 6 guys. I thought the bottles were attached but they bowed their heads and flipped the bottles off their heads into their in sync. It was great!
Beautifully done! The movement, balance and grace is stunning. I love that you all went all in! And maybe this wasn’t your intention (hard to tell in writing), but I get the impression that you have a distaste for “tricks” like magnets or velcro. Nothing wrong with that of course, but to voice my perspective, in a real sense acting is all just tricks. Robert Houdin has a great quote: “A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician.” Tricks are necessary because the actor’s not actually magic. In a similar sense, using velcro or magnets don’t have to decrease the beauty of the performance, because the performers are playing the part of bottle dancers. It’s different, of course, because bottle dancing is actually possible, while being magic isn’t. And again, NOTHING wrong with doing it this way - it’s amazing! Just my thoughts. Thanks for sharing your talent!
Well done guys! Amazing! This just emphasise the skill, really appreciated the work that goes into this! Thank you for sharing! May l say, this doesn't in anyway take away the wonder! Of this performance, or the emotion that l always feel when l watch it. Blessings! I have subscribed! Moira From England.
Anyone know where I can buy some hats just like these? I'm costuming Fiddler on the Roof for a community theatre and they want to do the bottle dance with no tricks as well
it's a fairly common older hat design, essentially it's a wool felt hat blank molded into a wide brim high crown fedora. look for things like "Wool felt hat blanks" online. similar hats were used during the settler/wild west era in america, so places that outfit revolutionary war and civil war reenactors might also have something serviceable.
