Thanks for the ideas.
The choreographer is going to test just putting the loose sequins in the dancer's pant pocket. I'm worried that she will have to put a lot in there for him to be able to palm the sequins quickly - but she'll find that out in rehearsal today. Her concern with using something to hold the sequins is that the dancer will have trouble popping the bag in time. We thought about velcroing the pants pocket closed, but that would be too noisy.
The other consideration is that the dancer rolls on the floor before he has to take out the sequins.
I didn't know that he had a pocket before - let alone pants (I assumed he was wearing tights). I'm going to see if I can convince her to try a small drawstring bag tacked into the pants pocket that holds the sequins.
Matthew - I also toyed with the idea of punched metallic paper, but then it would have to be fire-treated, and we don't have the materials to do that. I do worry that with mylar or sequins, someone is going to slip in their pointe shoes.
Post Merge: May 21, 2015, 12:55 pm
Well, a solution has been found! When all else fails, change the choreography.
While changing choreography is not always a possible solution, this choreographer created a distraction with dancers DL so that the dancer who drops the sequins can extend his arm into the wings SR and an offstage dancer drops the sequins into his hand.
No bag to tear open or discard, no sequins falling out of his pocket, no fear of timing issues. But, we have sequins on the floor.
With the choreographer being open to alter choreography for an effect she wants, I'm guessing she's going to alter the choreography to keep the dancers off the sequins so that they don't fall down.
I guess some things are easier in the dance world.