At a recent "Wozzeck" rehearsal, deep within the Met, Ms. Meier hung on the neck of Stuart Skelton, playing the Drum Major, as they danced slowly and sensuously downstage, moaning, "Immerzu, immerzu" ("Keep going, keep going") in a soft rasp.
But most theater professionals would agree that the lion's share of shaping comes in the fertile and sometimes frantic process of a playwright and a director, huddled together after rehearsal, deep in thought and conversation.
Another exercise is the rehearsal of deep chest breathing and rapid, shallow breathing during periods of maximum strain; this technique helps to reduce uterine tension.
And so it was that late last month Ms. Netrebko found herself walking into a rehearsal room deep within the Met to work on Anne Boleyn, who, in Donizetti's telling, is a wholly innocent queen betrayed by dark political forces.
This had the air of an avoidance strategy that had been meticulously crafted by Milne and Watson in some rehearsal room deep in Labour HQ.
Zero Degrees began life as a private dialogue, just two dancers swapping ideas in the studio, and what makes it so riveting in performance is that the intimacy which Khan and Cherkaoui discovered in rehearsal is etched deep into the finished product.
After about two months of rehearsals, Shades of Deep Purple was recorded in only three days in May 1968 and contains four original songs and four covers, thoroughly rearranged to include classical interludes and sound more psychedelic.
Deep into rehearsal, I am shocked by Shylock's lines to the Court, as he damns Venetian (and of course English) society for slavery.
Inside, more than two dozen performers were deep in rehearsal for the group's productions this month of "Crazy For You" and "Winnie the Pooh".
The Fäviken team was deep in rehearsal mode, deciding the final details of dishes being introduced in the new season, memorising their responsibilities, and learning how to do every job perfectly.
Months before opening its latest show in Las Vegas, the circus best known for its family-friendly entertainments was deep in rehearsal at its headquarters in Montreal for "Zumanity," the company's first foray into what it terms an "erotic cabaret," a $15 million production destined for a specially constructed theater at the New York-New York CasiNew York-New.
