He did this report to the Kapiti Coast Youth Council as he received a $200 Youth Dollars grant from them to help cover his costs to take part in this festival.
Salem’s Trip to the BTDA Festival in Auckland
5th – 8th June 2014
At the Youth2U Dollars ceremony |
A very big “thank you” to the Kapiti Youth Council for granting me $200 Youth2U Dollars. This helped me cover the rest of my costs for
me to participate as part of the Performance Team for Waikanae Dance School at the British Theatre Dance Association’s
dance festival for 2014.
As part of the performance team, I had helped in
some of the fundraising activities such as performing at the Waikanae
Easter Market, and even performed for the Paraparaumu/Raumati Community Board to get some funding for the
team’s trip up to Auckland. It was a lot
of fun.
After all our hard work, I was so excited to go on
my first plane flight ever, to Auckland.
I had never been to Auckland before either so it was a weekend full of
new experiences. We stayed at a holiday
motel/park was had loads of palm trees which I was very impressed with as we
don’t have any, or as many, down this part of the North Island.
I really enjoyed being part of the BTDA dance festival, I met a lot of new people and made plenty of new
friends. It was great to be able to
compete against a lot of new people.
The Attitude film crew |
I also had a film crew from Attitude Pictures with me.
They had been filming me before this trip, at home in Kapiti, having
lessons and me teaching as well. I got
very used to having them around. It was
weird saying good bye to them at the end.
You can watch my documentary at http://attitudelive.com/blog/dan-buckingham/documentary-salems-ballet. Here is the add for the programme on You Tube :
These were the first competitions I had ever danced
as part of a duo, a trio, and an acrobatic troupe.
It was also the first time I had competed doing an
acrobatic dance solo as I had only started learning acro in term 4 of last
year. I had choreographed my acro solo
over the summer holidays and this was my debut performance.
I was up against very experienced and amazing girls,
they were all very nice to me too. I was
a bit nervous as to how I would do.
I received 2nd Place. I was very happy with that result.
Practicing for modern trio |
My
results for the festival were:
1st
Place – Acro Duo
2nd Place – Acro Solo
2nd Place – Acro Troupe
Highly Commended – Classical Duo
Commended – Lyrical Solo
Commended – Modern Trio
1st Place for Acro Duo |
You can see some of my dances from the festival on
my You Tube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWosTjBuKQhhucPJMxSK7Xg
and I put together a video about my trip to the festival which you can watch at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PhZETQwTcE.
So “Thank You” again to the Kapiti Youth Council and the Youth4U Dollars grant for helping to
make this great experience happen for me.
It has been really appreciated.
Salem
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