INT TILTED FLAGON GREATROOM - NIGHT Evan and Astriana enter from upstairs, just in time to catch the tail end of the epic ballad being sung by BARDS in a corner. Several people are dancing a subdued dance to the song. Evan does a double-take, which Astriana notices. ASTRIANA Is everything alright? EVAN (blinks) Oh, yeah. I just haven't heard bardcore in a long time. ASTRIANA Bardcore? EVAN It's what we call this type of music in my world. Astriana grins. ASTRIANA Is it not to your taste? EVAN It's fine. Just a surprise. Just then the lead singer announces the group will be taking a short break. The dance floor empties. Darl passes by waiting tables and overhears. DARL If you ask them nicely, perhaps they could loan you an instrument to play something from your world? Evan chuckles. EVAN Oh I don't play. But a thought occurs to him... EVAN But Darl, you wouldn't happen to have a glass bowl, would you? Darl considers a moment. DARL I believe I do, actually.
Bustles off to the kitchen and returns with a decent-sized glass bowl. Evan removes his cell phone from a pocket and checks the battery. It reads 81% but no signal. He pulls up his music app and scrolls through a few songs. EVAN (mutters) I'm glad I downloaded my favorites. He finally selects one and hits Play. Then he sets the phone in the glass bowl, which amplifies the music, on the stage. Song starts out diegetic in the bowl, then shifts to soundtrack. What follows is a big, bombastic dance number. It is an upbeat celebration of life. Big smiles and cathartic, athletic dancing everywhere. ***Suggested song would be either Body Talks by the Struts or, for cultural flavor, Ricky Martin's She Bangs, as Evan is also of Puerto Rican descent.*** It starts off with Evan throwing down some slick dance moves as the song begins. If Body Talks, the dancing should be somewhat freestyle Hollywood musical style. If She Bangs: bachata, salsa, Latin freestyle, etc. If Body Talks, Evan lip-syncs the line "Cuz I'm gonna be it tonight" while looking at Astriana across the dance floor. If She Bangs, the line "Now you're hitting my heart like a drum, yeah baby." As Evan dances, Astriana moves her head to the rhythm, then her body, then her feet. She watches Evan's dance moves attentively, and then jumps in with him by the first chorus, matching him move-for-move. As they dance, the rest of the patrons start to jam to the music, and join the dance floor in twos and threes as the song builds, until by the final verse/chorus after the bridge, the whole place is rockin'. At one point, a 'backup' dancer or two come forward to perform an energetic dance solo while Evan and Astriana drop temporarily back into the 'backup' section. Even Tessa dances slightly as she does her cooking, and Darl sees this and smiles proudly at her. At the end of the song, everyone is panting, sweaty, and euphoric. There are hugs, forearm shakes, and high-fives all around. Astriana laughs in genuine happiness.
ASTRIANA That was amazing! You are an excellent dancer, Evan. He grins at her. EVAN You're not so bad yourself. ASTRIANA I am exhausted after that. I believe I shall retire for the evening. He nods. EVAN I'll second that. They exit upstairs.
So for #FirstPageFriday / #FunPagesFriday I added a scene to my epic romantasy, MOONLIGHT.
It needed a dance scene, and I needed to learn how to write a dance scene, so if you need to learn how to write a dance scene, this is the heavily-researched script method of dance-sceneing. #ScriptSky
