Co-curricular Dance

CO-CURRICULAR DANCE CAPTAINS’ REPORT

No one's 2020 vision could have predicted the global pandemic that took over our lives and dramatically changed the way we interacted, learned and most of all, danced with each other. This year was like no other, and the Co-curricular Dance program at Pymble had to have some serious flexibility, versatility and positivity to overcome and adapt to both challenging and changing circumstances.

Dancing from Home

Dance, in nature, involves students working interactively in a class with a teacher who choreographs, positions and corrects movement to improve the dancer and group as a whole. This year, due to COVID-19, this normal class dynamic was flipped on its head. Every girl demonstrated hard work and motivation the whole year, but especially during the difficult period of online learning. Living rooms turned into dance spaces and Dance teachers became virtual by posting weekly videos of combinations for the girls to learn.

Virtual Dance Project

With the knowledge that there would be no eisteddfods this year, there was a need for some sort of purpose and end goal to be established for the team. Hence, the idea of a ‘virtual dance project’ evolved, which allowed the Pymble Eisteddfod Dance family to come together virtually by piecing together more than 300 videos of the Eisteddfod dancers performing choreography by their Dance teachers.

Jazz Scarlet Megan Buson and Tiana Zarafetas, Year 11

Dance Festival

Throughout this year, the team was craving to perform and, as restrictions eased, our Co-curricular Dance classes had the amazing opportunity to finally perform on our Gillian Moore Centre for Performing Arts (GMCPA) stage. Although it wasn’t like our regular Showcase, the title ‘Festival’ was a more fitting way to describe the fabulous week of performances and filming sessions that occurred.

Living rooms turned into dance spaces and dance teachers became virtual by posting weekly videos of combinations for the girls to learn.

Co-curricular Dance

Junior Jazz

Christy Ju, Lisa Ji, Arabella Sherlock and Rosie Kenny, Year 8

Ballet

The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) ballet students worked hard on their syllabus content in preparation for their yearly examinations in November and, in addition, both the Onstage and RAD ballet classes managed to put together a short routine once they came back to face-to-face classes to be professionally filmed on our GMCPA stage for a digital for all Dance families.

Thank You

Pymble dancers are to be commended for their passion and love of dance, evident through their unfailing commitment this year regardless of the barriers faced. As well as this, the Dance staff should be thanked for all the time and effort they put in to continue creating choreography and personally filming it for the girls during the online period as well as getting the routines looking fabulous upon returning to school. Finally, the whole Eisteddfod team is so appreciative of Mr Mitchell Delevergin, Miss Samantha Hibburt, Miss Katrina Cluff and Mrs Sabina Turner for getting Pymble Dance through this year with their inspiring resilience, optimism and creativity. The whole team is extremely lucky to have them.

The Co-curricular Dance program at Pymble looks forward to 2021 when hopefully the performing arts will be able to resume normally, letting our girls showcase their talents once again. Megan Buson and Tiana Zarafetas, Captains of Co-curricular Dance

Co-curricular Dance

DANCE AWARDS

Silver

Megan Buson, Chloé Clarke, Jessica Davidson, Sahra De Santi, Annabel Down, Melissa Tay, Chloe White, Tiana Zarafetas

Blue

Amelia Barr, Sophie Chamberlain, Isabel Dean, Zara Fahey, Fiona Fu, Elise Garrett, Lucy Hobson, Sage Kikui, Chloe Luzar, Georgia McDonagh, Zoe Orr, Claire Ovens, Victoria Pattison, Anika Perera, Grace Perrignon, Imogen Powell, Eshvari Puttaswamy, Ilani Roder, Georgia Shaw, Jessica Slater, Haley Spring, Jessica Tse, Zoe Turner, Isabel Walker, Delta Zarafetas, Jasmine Zhi

Red

Sofia Adamovich, Stephanie Adler, Charlotte Allen, Anuradha Apana, Olivia Barton, Samara Bond, Lila Bourke, Antoinette Boxall, Chloe Brogan, Anais Burnicle, Sophia Chang, Lara Chapman, Martina Chin, Sabrina Cooke, Laura Croker, Senu Edirisinghe, Olivia Eichmann, Emily Farrall, Ella Gibietis, Evie Gibson, Elizabeth Glenn, Sarah Glenn, Piper Gregory-Reid, Rose Haran, Demi Hardas, Ingrid Hastings, Lily Hearne, Amali Hilton, Lisa Ji, Ning Ning Jin, Lilli Johnston, Ella Jones, Lilian Jones, Rosie Kenny, Daisy Le, Stephanie Lee, Jessie Li, Annie Luo, Grace MacDonald, Elodie Mazza, Sabrina Mulhearn, Ava Olesen, Emilie Palme, Jasmine Pham, Charlotte Reid, Meredith Reynolds, Emily Rothery, Kashish Sabharwal, Shivani Senthil, Arabella Sherlock, Mia Smal, Gigi Spiller, Claire Spring, Mia St Clair, Caitlyn Tan, Elizabeth Tang, Chloe Tedesco, Sophia Thurkettle, Chloe Tran, Marina Volikas, Demitria Volos, Denise Wang, Anda Wang, Jessica Woo, Chantelle Wu, Bonita Xie, Jasmine Zhi

White Service

Stephanie Adler, Sahra De Santi, Isabel Dean, Emily Farrall, Lilli Johnston, Sage Kikui, Chloe Luzar, Grace MacDonald, Victoria Pattison, Anika Perera, Mia Smal, Haley Spring, Isabel Walker, Delta Zarafetas, Jasmine Zhi

DANCE PARTICIPANTS

Jazz White

Amelia Barr, Megan Buson, Chloé Clarke, Jessica Davidson, Sahra De Santi, Isabel Dean, Annabel Down, Elise Garrett, Sage Kikui, Chloe Luzar, Zoe Orr, Claire Ovens, Anika Perera, Grace Perrignon, Imogen Powell, Eshvari Puttaswamy, Ilani Roder, Georgia Shaw, Jessica Slater, Haley Spring, Melissa Tay, Isabel Walker, Chloe White, Delta Zarafetas, Tiana Zarafetas

Jazz Scarlet

Stephanie Adler, Charlotte Allen, Antoinette Boxall, Anais Burnicle, Lara Chapman, Olivia Eichmann, Emily Farrall, Fiona Fu, Ella Gibietis, Elizabeth Glenn, Piper Gregory-Reid, Lisa Ji, Lilli Johnston, Lilian Jones, Grace MacDonald, Georgia McDonagh, Victoria Pattison, Kashish Sabharwal, Mia Smal, Claire Spring, Chloe Tran, Jessica Tse, Marina Volikas, Demitria Volos, Denise Wang, Jessica Woo, Bonita Xie, Jasmine Zhi

Jazz Navy

Radha Apana, Samara Bond, Lila Bourke, Chloe Brogan, Sophia Chang, Laura Croker, Senu Edirisinghe, Evie Gibson, Rose Haran, Demi Hardas, Lily Hearne, Amali Hilton, Ella Jones, Annie Luo, Elodie Mazza, Ava Olesen, Emily Rothery, Arabella Sherlock, Gigi Spiller, Mia St Clair, Elizabeth Tang, Zoe Turner, Anda Wang

Contemporary White

Amelia Barr, Megan Buson, Sophie Chamberlain, Chloé Clarke, Jessica Davidson, Sahra De Santi, Isabel Dean, Annabel Down, Fiona Fu, Elise Garrett, Chloe Luzar, Georgia McDonagh, Claire Ovens, Victoria Pattison, Anika Perera, Grace Perrignon, Imogen Powell, Georgia Shaw, Jessica Slater, Melissa Tay, Jessica Tse, Chloe White, Delta Zarafetas, Tiana Zarafetas, Jasmine Zhi

Contemporary Scarlet

Antoinette Boxall, Anais Burnicle, Martina Chin, Olivia Eichmann, Ella Gibietis, Elizabeth Glenn, Sarah Glenn, Piper Gregory-Reid, Lisa Ji, Rachel Johnstone, Ava Olesen, Emilie Palme, Charlotte Reid, Shivani Senthil, Claire Spring, Haley Spring, Mia St Clair, Caitlyn Tan, Chloe Tran, Marina Volikas, Demitria Volos, Denise Wang, Bonita Xie

Contemporary Navy

Sofia Adamovich, Charlotte Allen, Radha Apana, Olivia Barton, Lara Chapman, Sabrina Cooke, Evie Gibson, Ingrid Hastings, Felicity He, Amali Hilton, Ning Ning Jin, Ella Jones, Daisy Le, Stephanie Lee, Jessie Li, Annie Luo, Elodie Mazza, Sabrina Mulhearn, Jasmine Pham, Meredith Reynolds, Emily Rothery, Kashish Sabharwal, Arabella Sherlock, Gigi Spiller, Chloe Tedesco, Chantelle Wu

Junior Jazz

Lynn An, Amalia Bond, Katherine Boyce, Naomi Cheng, Millie Cullinane, Eden Gerreyn, Louisa Heritage, Meimei Jiang, Cindy Jin, Imogen Jones, Mia Kim, Iris Li, Teagan Ning, Scarlet Olesen, Zara Orr, Georgia Rudd, Ruby Scarf, Emma Scott, Clara Thiris

Junior Lyrical

Katherine Boyce, Naomi Cheng, Millie Cullinane, Eden Gerreyn, Alexandra Hargraves, Meimei Jiang, Cindy Jin, Saskia Nicholson, Teagan Ning, Victoria O’Sullivan, Scarlet Olesen, Eden Orena Barlin, Zara Orr, Clara Thiris, Sahana Vivekanandhan, Feifei Wang, Addison Woods, Camille Xiao, Milly Xu, Natalie Yang, Sherry Yang, Mia Yong