This year I was given an opportunity to take part in the production of Mama Mia.
This process began with an audition. We took place in a dance audition and then an audition for the leads where we had to sing two songs previously prepared. I was cast as a dancer. We started the vigorous rehersal process, meeting 2-3 times a week, consolidating and rehearsing our lines and choreography for the show. We were responsible for learning our lines, organizing our props and costumes and then taking part in a series of dress rehersals bringing the production together. I tried to help out where I could with props and costumes as well as the leads when I could. We performed in three shows, this was amazing as it was like performing in a real theatre company performing three consecutive nights. Over all this was an amazing experience to be able to perform and be apart of a production and lead the audition process and be part of a theatre company.
This year I was able take my place for the second year as a ‘Student Choreographer’ for the 2022 dance concert ‘Rise’ based on empowerment. In order to acquire this position I had to undergo a selection and audition process. This process included submitting a cover letter, resume and an audition where we were required to lead a warm up and teach 16-24 counts of previously choreographed work and submit our over all themes and concepts. My concept based on the idea of empowerment was on ‘Time’ and the idea that time or the lack of time we have empowers us to live our lives to the fullest. Once my application was accepted, I was employed by The Agency. I chose students from years 11 and 12 who were interested in being in my piece I lead a warm up each session teaching my choreography and preparing my girls for the audition and concerts. I had to do all my own admin work as well as order costumes and design my lighting. This was an amazing experience yet again allowing me to work on my leadership, organisation, and creative skills and teaching me how to lead and manage a team .
Another year with Perth city ballet this year I performed in Picnic at hanging rock as well as blue. This was an amazing opportunity being given the role of dance captain which gave me a real opportunity to use my leadership skills. I was in charge of looking after the rest of the cast as well as costuming and props. This was a big responsibility but an amazing opportunity I leant so much enjoyed experiencing the magic of the quarry and performing there, performing 5 nights gave me a bit of a taste of what it is like to dance in a Company an amazing opportunity and always a joy.
In English, I have had many opportunities to display and grow my capabilities. Task 6 Dramatic performance was a learning experience that allowed me to develop my abilities, especially creatively. Working with two classmates, we decided to look at feminism and the mistreatment of women as a whole. We looked at three different social groups, including women who want to stand up and speak up, women who felt powerless and stayed silent, and men who were uneducated and mistreated women. After deciding on our topic, we had to get our creative juices flowing and think creatively about pulling the play together. Thinking creatively, we came up with the unique idea of showing a focal character at three stages of her life to help people understand that this issue affects everyone and make it audience-appropriate.
We had to think creatively about how to costume our play as we had limited resources and no time for significant costume changes. We decided to use symbolic objects to represent each character. The focal character, in different shades of blue as well as having age-related symbolic objects for each stage of her life: child-pigtails, teen-leather jacket, adult-Balzer, lucy-bow, hunter–hat, bus driver-steering wheel, making it easier for us to have multiple characters and for the audience to follow the storyline.
To set the scene for the audience, we created a video displaying each scene’s locations with transition slides to following the storyline. We wanted to think creatively and think of a way we could reach the audience about this issue. We thought of the idea to break the 4th wall and address the audience. We did this at the end of our playset out a protest. We spoke a speech about the real-life issue at hand, bringing this issue into reality into the real world out of the world of the play speaking to the audience, which connected us with the audience. This project allowed me to grow my creativity and helped me to think creatively in new ways to create a performance.
This year I had the privilege of choreographing my Own piece for the 2021 Dance Concert Unite. My piece ‘Face to face but not eye to eye was about how technology gives us some things but also creates a sense of fake connectivity and unity limiting our face-to-face connectivity. This experience was an amazing opportunity, I learned how to choreograph, plot my own pice, choose stage lighting and decide on costumes and budgeting. Running my own class and dealing with different skills and personalities was a valuable experience that I will never forget, teaching me so much about dance and choreography, an experience I am so grateful for.
Performing in the Perth City Ballet’s ‘Red Shoes,’ was such an amazing experience that will last me a lifetime. I learned so much about working in a different studio and loved meeting all the girls from the different studios. I have made many new friends and I loved working with Diana Waldron, I learned so much about what it means to be a dancer and what it feels like to be part of a Company, working towards producing a professional show for a real audience.
Performing at the quarry was a beautiful experience and a magical one that I will remember for life. I think that this program is so wonderful because it allows dancers like me who are chasing a profession in ballet to dance in a professional setting and learn what it would be like to be part of a production from start to finish. It was hard work, but I loved it.
Thank you, Diana Waldron, for letting me be a part of this very special ballet.
program at All Saints, I was able to work for an organization to help solve their problem. I chose RAAFA. RAAFA is located just down the road of our school, and we were provided with the opportunity to help their residents by designing a food transportation service.
Our challenge was to produce a prototype of a food transport system to help there resident when they are ill and can’t make it to the areas where food is provided so thatthey don’t miss out. I was really excited to hear about this as I am passionate about helping people and I want to make a difference and help people. I also have some good family friends that like at RAAFA and I want them to be comfortable and fed and happy.
First of all We went threw the planning faze thinking of multiple ideas to solve this problem before choosing that best few ideas to combine to produce a prototype then it was time to research we researched all the different components of our food cat to find out what products are the least expensive and what could be locally sourced. Then finally we came up with a final prototype and presented a pitch to a member of RAAFA.
Some of the school’s values I have displayed are empathy I have empathized with the people of RAAFA and what they are going threw and trying to help them. Courage I got up the confidence to speak in front of our class and to pick in front of a person from RAAFA and finally respect I respected all my group members and their ideas.
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