Recently Rushey Mead Academy held its annual Dance Showcase. This year the event contained 22 different dance pieces, from approximately 100 students across the school and in a variety of different dance styles including commercial, contemporary, Indian, Bollywood, waltz, free running, camera and Street Dance. The majority of the dance pieces were performed and choreographed by our Year 11 BTEC Performing Arts Dance; however we saw a range of other dances from our student Dance Leaders, the Year 8 and 9 dance company and Rushey Dance Academy which is run by Kiran Kumar one of our year 11 BTEC dancers. Also represented were the year 9 Arts Award group, the year 7 dance club, a year 7 PE group and our Boyance dance company containing all boys from KS3. The evening required a lot of hard work, dedication, discipline, commitment and energy from all involved. On the night 99 students performed on stage and 4 students were involved backstage with the technical aspects of the show, lighting and sound management. The show was completely sold out and the atmosphere in the theatre was electric; the students performed superbly demonstrating excellent dance technique and technical and interpretive dance skills. All of the students involved in the show should be extremely proud of themselves for all of their hard work, commitment and dedication in putting on such a fantastic show. Thank you all of the staff involved in the event and to everyone who came to support the dance students in the event. Hope to see you again next year. |
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Last academic year the Creative Arts Faculty had the opportunity to pilot a year 9 Arts Award accreditation group. Throughout the academic year the students have had one lesson a week which focused upon developing their knowledge, understanding, enthusiasm and interest in the Arts. They have experienced live theatre in the west end, Nottingham and at school. They worked collectively with our fantastic year 8 orchestra to produce their own musical theatre performance of the west end show Matilda. The students all took responsibility for different aspects of the show; some played lead acting roles, some were chorus members, dancers, singers, lighting technicians, sound engineers, stage managers, back stage hands, costume designers, choreographers and directors. The students took real ownership of the performance and worked extremely hard to create and produce an hour long performance which was shared with local trust and feeder primaries, a selected year 7 audience and to their families, friends and staff. All three performances were successful and the students thoroughly enjoyed the experience of performing to a live and enthusiastic audience. The final performance to the public on Wednesday 14th June was a fantastic opportunity for the Arts Award students and the Year 8 Orchestra to share all of their hard work, dedication, skill and talent with their families and friends. One parent in the audience said, ‘It was like a full west end show! She really enjoyed herself and was just amazed at what the students had put together.’ ‘I thought the whole performance was absolutely brilliant, and knowing how difficult the music is to play it is even more impressive. When I heard the Rushey Mead orchestra for the first time last year I thought it couldn't get any more impressive, but seeing the orchestra playing, while the choir sang, and the students acted and danced, was absolutely incredible - a real credit to you all.’ Mrs Bland Assistant Principal: Teaching and Learning The students have been gathering evidence throughout the year for the Bronze and Silver Arts Award qualification which was externally moderated on Monday 10th July. Our Silver candidate and some of our Bronze had the fantastic opportunity to deliver a workshop at a local primary school. This gave them the opportunity to develop leadership skills and some real life professional skills.
We had some fantastic results for the arts award and the students should be very proud of the work they produced. |
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