At the end of a very busy Term 2 for the Performing Arts at Nayland, the school hall hosted an audience of over 500 people across the two nights for the 2024 Dance Showcase.
This years showcase featured a diverse range of performances from the school鈥檚 Junior Arts programme, NCEA classes and co-curricular groups.
The showcase is the primary avenue for assessment for senior students who performed an engaging array of pieces. The Year 11 class presented a percussive contemporary routine, alongside an upbeat and toe-tapping partner jive dance. The Year 12 class presented a variety of hip-hop inspired routines while the Year 13 class demonstrated diverse skills across contemporary, fosse, jazz and musical theatre dances. A crowd favourite being the engaging and entertaining rendition of the Cell Block Tango from Chicago.
Maggie O鈥橦ara had a busy night, performing in nine out of 20 of the routines. Maggie is the leader of Dance Company this year and worked alongside other Year 13 students to choreograph the Latin jazz side of the company鈥檚 mashup performance of the evening. She also submitted a duet dance as her major choreographic task of the year and to go towards her submission of Scholarship Dance later in Term 4.
The junior classes – who took Dance as a module for the first two terms 鈥� gave exciting performances in line dancing, jig, chair waltz, jazz and percussion inspired by the Samoan Sasa.
By Jana Polglase