Project Week

Wow, so just a week or so after getting back from break we hop into project week. We have one week to create, rehearse and perform a show using the whole school. The first weekend we brainstormed ideas and sunday came up with a basic plotline. Monday we divided up into the different working groups: Theatre, Dance, Costumes, Lights and Sounds, Music Composition, Music Performance, Scene Makers, and Poster and Sign Makers. For this I chose to do dance. Everyday of the week we worked about 7.5 hours on our dance and i ended up getting very sore feet.

The show is basically summarized like this....It is based at a train station and there are three main characters A, B, and C. Each is finding their identity. B is waiting for her boyfriend to show up, A is a buisness barbie- very uptight and proper. C is going on travels about the world and is very flexible and laid back. First you meet them, then they meet each other and have a negative expirience with that. There is a scene with a video on tv and dancders on stage showing how we let our identities be molded by television. It is a very deep play. Being in dance I really don't know the story line that well, they tel me to dance and I dance. I am in 2 scenes. The first is after you first meet the actors and announcement plays that a train has arrive and the dancers create the chaos that ensnues when trains arrive. It starts with me and a couple others just wandering lazily about and then the announcement plays and everyone marches determidely in and are all walking about like they are in a hurry and everyone else is in the way. Randomly, different dances begin, a boyfriend and a girlfriend are saying goodbye to each other (in a dance like way) and other such stories portrayed by dance. My dance is with 2 other girls, I am looking for my friends (again, in a dance like way) and Mari and Tine are twins that mimic each others dance moves and they look for me and when fnding me they mimic my actions a little then come up behind me and scare me, i fall back into their arms and then am spun away, they come up to hug me but to get them back i duck and they hug each other and then we hug and skip out of the station. Its really cute, i only wish i could show you people.

The next dance I am in is the Hip Hop battle scene. Actor C decides he doesnt want to be in this gang anymore and then there is turmoil because a new person wants to become leader so there is a rap battle between the old leader and the wannabe. The dancers are divided in two groups which are the gang members supporting each person. My group (of about 8) goes out and does a dance and then the other group comes out and does their thing. Then the rap begins with our guy that ants to be the leader. We party and cheer him on and send offensive messages to the other gang and some small fights start. Between the different rap sections us dancers do a hip/hop dancing battle with small groups. First that go are me and Mari and we made this really cool dance that was really hard an really awesome because we were one of the few non-dancers doing dance and wanted to show them up. Our instructor said ours was the best, most "hip-hoppish" dance there was. Yay! The end of the battle ends with everyone doing a dance together and then running out. It was tons of fun!!

We go on a study tour to london next week and I am really excited, we will be there for about a week and then have 4 days off before school starts again. We (the music students) are going to a Shostacovick 100 anniversary concert, master classes at the Royal Academy of Music, and get to go to gamelan seminar where we will actually get to play different parts of the gamelan. There is other stuff we will be doing but I don't remember what. I am making a shopping list because London is a lot cheaper than Norway. Well, I am getting bored of sitting on the computer, sorry for not making these more often but it is hard finding time once there is something to talk about. Har det bra!!