This is a super cool song by Kate Bush when she was making her most influential work. The song is sung from the perspective of Houdini's wife after his death, a song of grieving made more interesting by Houdini's secret code.
During his life, Houdini was interested in debunking, and did debunk, several spiritualist mediums to prevent people from being taken in by them. But, before Houdini died, he and his wife, Bess, arranged between them that if Houdini found it possible to communicate after death, he would communicate the message "Rosabelle believe." Bess held yearly séances on Halloween for ten years after Houdini's death in 1926, claimed to have contact in 1929, but she later said the incident had been faked.
Later in the song there's a reference to the secret code that just provokes shivers! It's not in the part of the song I dance to (unfortunately) and one of the reasons I've not choreographed this song before now is that it would have to be expertly edited, and edited a lot, to have a good flow of choreo, music, and consistency of story.
During his life, Houdini was interested in debunking, and did debunk, several spiritualist mediums to prevent people from being taken in by them. But, before Houdini died, he and his wife, Bess, arranged between them that if Houdini found it possible to communicate after death, he would communicate the message "Rosabelle believe." Bess held yearly séances on Halloween for ten years after Houdini's death in 1926, claimed to have contact in 1929, but she later said the incident had been faked.
Later in the song there's a reference to the secret code that just provokes shivers! It's not in the part of the song I dance to (unfortunately) and one of the reasons I've not choreographed this song before now is that it would have to be expertly edited, and edited a lot, to have a good flow of choreo, music, and consistency of story.
This section of choreo starts about 0:33 into the song, and hits one of the trickiest parts as we have to match the feel of her anguish. It would surely need some polishing as well as rehearsal time to do the song justice!