Oz Never Wonders by: Emily Haas
The literary arts kids and the dancers have collaborated once again to give us an outstanding performance. The show, “Oz Never Wonders”, is set in an apocalyptic world where the three worlds: Oz, Peter Pan and Alice and Wonderland come together. Each dancer is a character that represents someone or some stereotype in our current society. The literary arts students job is to give the dancers a starting point for the character to work with, like a background story. The dancers then have to embody that story and find personal connections to portray during the show.
I had a personal interview with a set of partners, Mallory Coty and Imani Smith. We talked about the collab as a whole and what they thought of it and the highs and lows of working with a different conservatory. A general meeting between the two of them consists of really keeping an open mind; that it doesn’t matter how or if they view the character differently, but how the audience will see the character and their response to it. They only have a limited amount of time together, which in turn can make things difficult. According to them there isn’t as much time with this show, as there was in the past ones, but this is one of their favorites because of the depth they could get into.
Both conservatories brainstormed individually then came together with all the different ideas. Mrs. Miranda had all of her arts classes partake in a class discussion about things they would like to see in the show and their vision. Mrs. Flood had a meeting with her cast members, where they wrote down and answered questions they related to their personal connections to their characters. The questions that Imani said stood out to her were, “Who are you?” “What’s your perfect society?” and “Can you actually be broken?”
Both conservatories are asking that you keep an open mind and try and imagine yourself in this apocalyptic universe.
What would your personality be?
The literary arts kids and the dancers have collaborated once again to give us an outstanding performance. The show, “Oz Never Wonders”, is set in an apocalyptic world where the three worlds: Oz, Peter Pan and Alice and Wonderland come together. Each dancer is a character that represents someone or some stereotype in our current society. The literary arts students job is to give the dancers a starting point for the character to work with, like a background story. The dancers then have to embody that story and find personal connections to portray during the show.
I had a personal interview with a set of partners, Mallory Coty and Imani Smith. We talked about the collab as a whole and what they thought of it and the highs and lows of working with a different conservatory. A general meeting between the two of them consists of really keeping an open mind; that it doesn’t matter how or if they view the character differently, but how the audience will see the character and their response to it. They only have a limited amount of time together, which in turn can make things difficult. According to them there isn’t as much time with this show, as there was in the past ones, but this is one of their favorites because of the depth they could get into.
Both conservatories brainstormed individually then came together with all the different ideas. Mrs. Miranda had all of her arts classes partake in a class discussion about things they would like to see in the show and their vision. Mrs. Flood had a meeting with her cast members, where they wrote down and answered questions they related to their personal connections to their characters. The questions that Imani said stood out to her were, “Who are you?” “What’s your perfect society?” and “Can you actually be broken?”
Both conservatories are asking that you keep an open mind and try and imagine yourself in this apocalyptic universe.
What would your personality be?