'My Songs know what you did in the dark' movement

When seeing LTROI at the Apollo theatre, I was amazed at the scene where Okar's mother joins him in bed followed by an intimate contemporary dance. I think for me, it really represented their difficult relationship, furthermore it gave more depth to the mother's character whom we don't see very often throughout the play. In terms of their relationship, she cares and wants to nurture Oskar but at the same time she doesn't understand him and who he is and so can't, or even won't, support him properly. This means their relationship can be stretched and compressed into difficult and at times awkward forms. It truly showed their relationship and so was pure and fascinating.

In conclusion to this, our performing company has decided to do exactly the opposite following the scene where Oskar is joined by his mother in bed. For this we have used an instrumental to Fallout Boy's 'My songs know what you did in the dark' which is heavy, loud and surprisingly fast for a song to accompany Oskar's dreams. Whilst still focusing on Oskars issues, his mother his more pushed out of the situation and the movement takes a look at Oskars fears; fears of being isolated, enclosed, fears of Jonny, Mikie and Jimmy, his fear of Eli's supernatural power but also fear of loosing Eli. Whilst I would prefer a slow contemporary dance at this point, I believe the movement we have choreographed is still as impacting on the audience and I am behind it. My imput into the choreography, I would hope, meant that it still conveyed to some degree, the visualisation of Oskar's issues. Moreso, I pushed the idea of Oskar's confusion surrounding Eli, e.i. What is she? Is she manipulative? At the same time I thought it might be effective if Hakan was seen as a shadow as I imagine Oskar would be very confused about him; Oskar knows of Hakan as the man next door but who is he and what is his exact relationship with Oskar's interest, Eli?

This is the most recent of many 'movements' we have choreographed and I am beginning to wonder if we are adding too many of these 'movements' to the already powerful script. If we aren't then my main concern is are they impacting the audience as powerfully as we should hope.