March:
Our Mad Weekend,
as Mad as a March Hare’s
Mad Hatter
*written by the JNR's,
edited by Soul Baby
Friday
Tech
Rehearsal, The Surgery, Sadlers Wells:
The Surgery is a show hosted by
Jonzi-D. Previously, SIN Cru Theatre have been invited to perform.
This time the JNR’s were invited aswell! We arrived at Sadlers
Wells (London) to do our first tech rehearsal for the surgery and
to see what was going on. We ran both pieces “To The Left”
and Ben Jammin’ and TrubL’s excerpt from “Breathe”,
whilst speaking and joking with Jonzi-D about what sort of things
to expect. We then sat and watched another piece - a contemporary
solo, while we stretched and while the lighting people were getting
ready for our last run.
Move It!:
Our next destination was Move
It!
Move It! is a dance festival where
a variety of different styles of shows and classes are demonstrated.
We had to teach a Breakin’ workshop to nearly 100 people!
It was an extremely large classroom
and none of us had taught in a classroom that was so big. There
was laminated floor with a tiny stage at the very front of the room.
It kind of looked like an aerobic
set up. Luckily TrubL decided not to use the radio mic and we had
a 45 minutes session of successful, hard-core teaching. Despite
the fact that the class contained 100 people, somehow we all managed
to stay alive! After that we made our way back to Sadlers Wells,
for our show.
The Surgery:
The Surgery is a real audience
participation show. You show your work and then the audience and
other performers can get involved and ask questions. After having
fun getting really involved in other people’s pieces it was
our turn. It wasn’t exactly a nervous show as there was only
about 20 people in the audience including the dancers. We did our
pieces and did ourselves proud. The people watching were very impressed
and amazed because our pieces were so different and unbelievably
tight.
Saturday
Last For
One Show:
The show started with an hour
of classical Korean music, which, although amazing, we felt went
on too long. But it was lightened up with a bit of beatboxing towards
the end of the music. Finally we got to the real business and Last
For One came on. Their piece was about a golden ball that a bunch
of warriors needed to get to save their lives. But the ball kept
on going to different situations like in a basketball player’s
ball and a paperboys bag. They used props like bikes, balls and
hats, which made it really interesting. We liked the show and thought
the dancing was fautless and inventive. At the end of the night
a Korean news channel filmed us about what we thought of the show.
Last For
One Workshop:
The workshop started off by the Korean’s splitting the groups
as there were too many people there. Both groups learnt the same
choreography and the JNRs still use it greatly! People chose the
power move of their choice and got taught it. We were very happy
as we each achieved something new. Soul Baby managed to get help
with his swipes, Curious George got help with his mills, Mar-Shki
got help with his flares and Elle Roc got help getting out of her
chinos. This pleased everyone except Mar-Shki who was still paining
from his paper cut (ahhh you have to be there!).
Tag:
After doing a brilliant and inspiring workshop with Last For One,
we rushed through traffic and eventually got out the other side
to Cambridge. We entered the Arts Theatre 10 minutes late but didn’t
miss much as the show started late. We then sat down to watch Jonzi-D’s
Tag; it felt so good to watch someone else do the hard work! The
show was really good it was all about a teenage boy who started
graffiti at a young age and it shows his struggle through his parents
and the law. One of the raps even name checked Sinstars Kilo and
Skore! It was really good because it showed us the other side of
HipHop. The show was very inspiring, as all of the JNRs have got
really into graffiti and are really interested in it. SIN Cru had
helped the theatre market the show and had arranged for a post show
discussion, so at the end there was an open talk about the show
and we started talking to the dancers and Jonzi-D. Suddenly the
main guy of the show pointed Soul Baby out and reminded him that
they played chess together in Manchester at Process06 which was
funny - ahh I remember those days!
The weekend was a very tiring and inspirational weekend with a variety
of different things going on, from Breakin’ and Graffiti to
video production art.
That was a wicked weekend!!
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