March 27th....
It's truly amazing what connecting and chatting with various people in the community can result in. Evergreen Primary School is celebrating Dance - as a part of SDW 2011 - by devoting one day on their school calendar to Dance! May 26th will be that day. That day, the entire school will experience dance through learning a community dance with simple moves from diverse dance genres that have been practised in Singapore. They will also view dance through performances by dance groups in Singapore as well through a short dance film.
I met up with the teacher in charge, the HOD of Aesthetics at Evergreen Ms Helen Shin, a few days ago. I was so taken by her interest and commitment to the concept of Dance Week. It is so heartening to listen to people like Helen and what they are doing to take SDW forward. It makes me feel that somewhere, somehow, what we are doing is right.
Anyway, Helen came up with this idea of a community dance and asked if our members at WDAS could help choreograph and teach it to their students. It was during our conversation that the possibility of a special signature SDW dance piece came to mind. That the piece that is taught to them can be the very same piece that opens and closes Dance Week this year. In any case Team SDW 2011 was working on having mass dances at the opening and closing events. So, why not this???
This special piece will be created on the spot at the Opening event at One Fullereton. It will be danced to the music of Singapore's very own fusion music group, Gammarays. By the way, Gammarays partnered us last year as well - a wonderful group of young and committed musicians who are not rejecting of their ethnic forms of music and yet daring in their explorations and compositions.
In the meantime, the Bollywood Mass Dance which will also be presented at the Opening event will soon be ready for public viewing on this very site.
More updates soon....
Nirmala Seshadri
It's truly amazing what connecting and chatting with various people in the community can result in. Evergreen Primary School is celebrating Dance - as a part of SDW 2011 - by devoting one day on their school calendar to Dance! May 26th will be that day. That day, the entire school will experience dance through learning a community dance with simple moves from diverse dance genres that have been practised in Singapore. They will also view dance through performances by dance groups in Singapore as well through a short dance film.
I met up with the teacher in charge, the HOD of Aesthetics at Evergreen Ms Helen Shin, a few days ago. I was so taken by her interest and commitment to the concept of Dance Week. It is so heartening to listen to people like Helen and what they are doing to take SDW forward. It makes me feel that somewhere, somehow, what we are doing is right.
Anyway, Helen came up with this idea of a community dance and asked if our members at WDAS could help choreograph and teach it to their students. It was during our conversation that the possibility of a special signature SDW dance piece came to mind. That the piece that is taught to them can be the very same piece that opens and closes Dance Week this year. In any case Team SDW 2011 was working on having mass dances at the opening and closing events. So, why not this???
This special piece will be created on the spot at the Opening event at One Fullereton. It will be danced to the music of Singapore's very own fusion music group, Gammarays. By the way, Gammarays partnered us last year as well - a wonderful group of young and committed musicians who are not rejecting of their ethnic forms of music and yet daring in their explorations and compositions.
In the meantime, the Bollywood Mass Dance which will also be presented at the Opening event will soon be ready for public viewing on this very site.
More updates soon....
Nirmala Seshadri
