Calamity Jane!

This week was the week of our school musical - Calamity Jane!
  So much work and effort had gone into the production, so we were all very excited and nervous coming up to the week of the show.

Lauren as Calamity Jane,
and Darragh as the Colonel

  I was choreographing and dancing in the three ballet dances in the musical, to the songs 'Higher Than A Hawk', 'Black Hills of Dakota' and 'Secret Love'.
  Over the course of several months, a few other senior students and I choreographed the 3 dances and taught 2 of them to the junior ballet dancers. After practicing at lunchtime every day for months, we were ready!!
  The 4 nights of the show went so well - everyone who came to see it thought it was a fantastic production, particularly considering it was only a school musical!
  All the cast, crew, dancers and orchestra performed so well, and it was a pleasure to be a part of the whole production!

  Here are some clips of the songs I danced to from the movie version of Calamity Jane:


Don't forget to check out the Calamity Jane blog here, and the St Wolstan's Calamity Jane Facebook page for pictures of the show and rehearsals!!!

Musical Maddness

This Friday was the launch of our school musical, Calamity Jane!
  Held in the newly re-opened Celbridge Manor Hotel, the cast put on a few numbers to promote the musical to the public and mark the official launch of the musical.

 To open the launch, Lauren, who plays the lead of Calamity Jane sang the lovely romantic ballad 'Secret Love' accompanied by a troupe of ballet dancers. Next, the whole chorus joined her to perform the opening number of the show,  'The Deadwood Stage'. To finish, Lauren and Róisín, who plays Katie sang a lovely duet called 'A Woman's Touch'
 As a choreographer and dancer for ballet, I had to perform in the ballet dance. It was great fun, but also quite scary for us as we had to dance in our pointe shoes on an extremely slippy floor!!
  All in all the night was a great success! Don't forget to pick up your tickets for the musical and to check out the Calamity Jane blog here: http://www.swcalamityjane.blogspot.ie/