Family & Friends are invited to visit our 30 Birch Avenue location tonight to watch a short piece created by our performers in just 1.5 hours onsite with our DramaWay staff led by Alanna Balicki. Performance starts at 8:30 pm tonight and will likely not be longer than 10-15 minutes.
Travel Safe and enjoy this process oriented sneak peak at some of the work our ExpressionWorks Participants have been enjoying the past 4 weeks.
Some great shots of all the action happening at RhythmWorks Downtown with our incredible dancers led by Alanna Balicki and Anne McCallum. We are delighted to also have our new volunteer Shipla joining us this week.
Way to go Dancers!
ExpressionWorks Blog Entry – Class Update for February 4th by Volunteer Sam Webster
This week at ExpressionWorks we celebrated classic Disney musicals in all of their nostalgia-inducing glory. After all the participants chose their favourite musicals, the class engaged in a series of vibrant dance movements inspired by particular songs from the chosen films.
What especially struck our team about this class, was how each participant’s intense passion for musicals was on display in the individual creativity of dance styles and movements. Class-leader Alanna Balicki skillfully facilitated and supported this passion while simultaneously providing pertinent additional themes and subject matter into the movements.
For instance, during our movement for The Lion King, participants chose their favourite characters from the film and, on the spot, constructed awesome movements inspired by such characters. We were then able to incorporate a ‘circle of life’ theme wherein all of these characters were eventually connected in a human dance circle.
This was a really cool class to be a part of. As a volunteer and actively engaged helper, I certainly have a new appreciation for how musicals can both motivate a large group dance movement while encouraging the individual to explore and express important universal themes on their own.
Here are the Dance tutorials for our dances which will be incorporated in our DramaWorks Productions 2016 this year. This first link is to the James Brown I Feel Good dance. Practice daily if you can rehearsing it two times back to back so you can remember it and do it without thinking once at program and ultimately when you perform at our big showcase!
https://youtu.be/oRqEMVGb8a4
This second link is the Dance Tutorial for our Ballroom dance to the song by Lana Del Ray. Remember Cindy and The Prince will gets some different actions to complete up until the Pointing section very soon. For now everyone should work on this, remembering you’ll be doing it with your partner.
https://youtu.be/15Jdu43jo54
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