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32 Dancing... For A Living - two recommend that you work on isolations. Jerry is very big on isolation work, and like Mr. Cole will be very creative in using it throughout the show. Arm movements, ribcage isolations and shoulder isolations will also be prevalent in your dance numbers. One other thing you?╟╓ll find in every Jerry Jackson Production is acting. To me, this is his best attribute. His dance numbers always tell a story and he demands the dancers be the biggest part of that story. His dances always have a beginning, middle and an end just like a good script. And as a dancer you will always be told where you are in history, what you should be feeling, and what emotion should be coming across to your audience. This was thrilling for me. I was a dancer that didn?╟╓t just want to smile and sell and I was interested in acting from the start of my career. I feel any dancer doing a Jerry Jackson show will be a more complete artist at the end of the run. Now, back to Guam. The following is my interview with Jerry Jackson on auditioning for and working in ?╟úFantastique?╟Ñ in Guam. Following the interview I?╟╓ll tell you a little bit about living and dancing in Guam. DM: Jerry, tell me a little about Guam and the SandCastle Theatre. JJ: I did a show there in 1991, it was a Vegas revue type show called ?╟úGlitz?╟Ñ. Isn?╟╓t that a terrible name for a show? I thought so, but that?╟╓s what they wanted to call it and fortunately it was successful. The good part was it was the SandCastle?╟╓s inaugural show and it ran from 91-95. SandCastle is a fifty million- dollar theatre. This is not a hotel or a casino or anything like that. Dancers should know they'll be performing in a state-of-the-art theatre. Then the producers from Guam asked me if I would do a new show. Choreographers always fight for time and money and this was no exception but we put Chapter Three - Guam and Japan 33 together our current show, which is called, "Fantastique". Although fantastique is a French word, the show is very much a Las Vegas type revue. They really like the American dancer in Guam and I think that?╟╓s part of the reason for the success. DM: What type of audience comes to see this show? Do the locals come or is it mostly tourists? JJ: I'd have to say both. The locals do come to see the show, remember there are a lot of Americans stationed over there in the armed forces. But I would have to say there are quite a few tourists, mainly from China, Korea, and Japan. DM: Tell me about the work schedule and the show. JJ: It?╟╓s two shows a night, six nights a week and the show runs about an hour and twenty minutes long. There is always one act in the show and it?╟╓s always a visual act. Right now, we have an illusionist in the show. Everyone seems to be into magic these days. The show is very fast paced. The first twenty minutes just flies by with solid dance, costume and set changes. The start of the show is basically ?╟úOld Paris?╟╓?╟╓ and ?╟úNew Paris?╟Ñ and there?╟╓s a Can Can number. There is a Latin section, with the tango and samba and also a Rio and salsa type dance. I?╟╓ve also incorporated a Broadway number and the dancers will perform a fun fifties number around a 1957 Chevy. But there?╟╓s a lot more. The dancers will get to perform a variety of styles and dances. DM: How large is the cast? JJ: Thirty dancers. Which I make look like more, but it fits the room. The theatre seats 500, and resembles a Vegas showroom. They also have a dinner show and a cocktail show like many of the shows in Las Vegas.