Culturama Italy final reflection

 

Another challenge we faced was that the costumes that our dance leader ordered did not arrive even though it was express delivery. Eventually, we gave up waiting for them and tried to find similar skirts as the original one in the  school drama costume office. There were red skirts that were not so similar, we had no choice but to use them. Collaboration was very important in achieving my goal as well as our team’s goal because without discussing the problems(challenges) we faced such as costume problem, we could not have made rational choices that helped us perform better. Throughout this experience, I also learnt that it is better for the members of the group to try to face the problems on the early stage of the progress than later because  it is hard to fix problems at some point even when ones discover it.  I would like to make suggestions to make some changes/improvement when I see errors/something missing even though it might be hard to fix that as a group.

Culturama Italy interim reflection

 

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culturama Italy

We started practicing the dance at the start of September. We practiced every Wednesday during lunch and had many last minute extra rehearsals during weekends and after school. Overall, there wasn’t any difficulty for me as a dancer to learn the choreography since dance leaders were always prepared to teach us the dance and led the rehearsal. However,  it was sometimes hard to work efficiently as a whole group when some people were absent or were not focusing. Our dance was highly collaborative:It was couple dance and we had circles and bridge to form in the middle of the dance within few seconds. Thus, we decided to dedicate more time during weekends to fix particular bits of our dance that we were not so satisfied with. During rehearsal, I shared many ideas such as what kinds of makeup to wear and how to make a bridge formation more quickly. I always arrived earliest in the rehearsals and helped others with dances. I think I showed contribution and effort and can’t wait to perform!

Culturama Italy Initial Reflection

we started practicing the very first part of ‘funiculi funicula’ which is one of the songs that will be used for our performance. Dance leader sent us the video of her choreography before lunch rehearsal and it was relatively simple and easy but very energetic which I liked so much! Also, it was supposed to be couple dance but we had more girls than boys so we got to have several girl-girl couple, including mine. My partner was a cute 10 grader who was very hard working and bright. I think we will be able to create a good team atmosphere and cooperate well:)