Summer Theatre Preparations

By Justyna Gach

Let’s play!

 As part of an annual tradition we are preparing theatre plays for the Summer Theatre event where all the special schools are taking part. This year the Juelsminde Day school took a challenge of creating play based on the famous ‘Billy Elliot’ musical about the struggle between classes during the miners’ strike in North England as well as the story of the boy who is breaking all the gender rules and starts to dance ballet. The play involves dancing – ballet and street dance, acting and singing and of course stage and costume making ;-)

It’s absolutely an amazing experience, especially for the students – some for the first time will be overcoming the stage fright, others are intensively practising dance moves and doing their best to memorize the dance steps and groups of few boys have created the band, therefore all the music will be played live!

It’s great to see their smiley faces against all the tiredness and demands, they are doing great job and it is important to mention that Development Instructors are fully involved in the theatre project. Rebecca is responsible for all the special effects as well as sound and light, Ana, Jessica and Natalie are backing up all the ballerina girls and taking care of the dancing boys. All together they’re making sure that there is a great atmosphere.  DI’s are motivating the students and building up their confidence, as at the end of the day the main goal is to boost students’ self-belief, show them their talents and convince that they really can do it!!!!