String ensemble 2019-2020 season 4 final reflection

During lockdown, we recorded ourselves playing our own part&instrument but could not rehearse together and

our concert that was supposed to be in esplanade hall was cancelled. But I tried to practice the cello regularly, especially focusing on improving basic skills which I did not have time for when I had to spend a lot of time going  to school and coming back home before the lockdown. Even though everything has changed and was uncertain, I think I found ways to make most out of the given situation and I think it is the most important lesson I learned during the lockdown that I need to accept the situation and plan how to deal with the changes. Also, by doing the string ensemble, I learned how to play my own instrument while also hearing other sounds. This was initially hard for me as I play a lot of solo songs or pieces by myself, but I think I got used to hearing other’s sound through this experience.

Dance showcase end of season 2(final) reflection

Until the Chinese New Year holiday, we mainly focused on learning the dances that we are going to perform. All of us had to learn the choreography  of the song “friends like me” and we divided into two groups where my group learned the jazz-style choreo and the other group learned contemporary dance. As we did not have enough time, we had to learn the dance pretty quickly and had to recall all the moves we learned before the following week during the rehearsal. I sadly forgot most of the moves we learned before CNY after I came back from the holiday, which made me worry a lot. I did not want to be a burden to my group, so I practiced really hard at home. Also, people in my dances helped me a lot and as we practiced as a group, I could memorise the dance quite well. Something challenging was that we were missing few people including one of our leaders that could not come to school due to corona virus. We had to learn formation but it was quite hard to learn it with few people missing as we also had to consider their positions. However, dance leaders uploaded diagram showing our formation on group chat and we could easily figure out formations. We started putting a lot of extra efforts and time 2 weeks before the dance showcase. We practiced during the weekends and after school. Sometimes, as group members were free at different dates and they were all busy so it was hard to come up with the slot where everyone was free. I also had to study for the tests and hoped we could practice after my test to be honest but I could actually managed to do as much work as I would have done if I did not have weekend rehearsals and through this experience, I learned that managing my time is really hard and that doing it well could enable me to do activities I like which will give me positive energy that will keep me motivated and bring some happiness into my life:)

 

 

 

Pre season touch Initial reflection

What I found most challenging in pre-season touch is mastering the rules of the play because it’s my first time playing it and most of the people there have learnt touch for several years. I think I am getting used to the rules but it is still hard to catch up with where other people are in terms of their skills and physical strength. In order to overcome the challenge, I am working on my pass. I think I will also need to work on strength in general, because I need to run for a long time while playing.

 

 

Culturama Italy interim reflection

 

Link to the light plot video:

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!