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“ “I want people to go, ‘Wow, how did they do this?’ ” she says. “So I basically recorded myself on a laptop webcam and pasted it into a grid, to find out what would work in that format.”

“Murray had already mapped out the dancing for the original concept, but little of that material worked on Zoom.
“I wanted to make sure the choreography felt like it was made for the Zoom grid, not like we’d made up a dance and fit it in,” she says. “I wanted it to feel like nine friends had gotten on a Zoom call and done this together. It’s not about the movement being technically challenging.”

“ From her home in Los Angeles, Murray called the dancers (mostly friends) and taught them the choreography remotely. They had one six-hour rehearsal online, worked out kinks the next day and filmed it from their apartments. A director in Canada, Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux, came in (via Zoom) to handle the technical side, cleaning up the timing and transmission glitches from all the different Internet speeds.

“ A few days later, the group had a finished video — without any of them having been in the same room.”

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