Visual Arts- Congratulations!

We are very happy that our students , Magdalena Navajas, of P3, Taciana Peric,  Chiara Guillemi  y  Luisina Frega, of ES 5,  won awards in the  intercollegiate competition organized by Nazareth College in Quilmes Transport Museum.

This Week- Music Showcase!!

Music Update!

The Music Department here at St George's College has been full of activity over August and September.

Our second Trimester ended with ES3 to Poli 3 doing some major in-class performances (A webisode to come soon!) and ES1 and ES2 exploring how to play keyboards.

Prep Choir- Grade 5

Now, it is about time some photos of the very successful concert 'The Big Sing' are displayed here. I know it is a bit late (The Big Sing was in June 2011). 

St George's North Students

But the concert was so wonderful and full of incredibly talented singing. It truly showcased the hard work put in by all students and also parents and staff. 

It was wonderful to have the new St Georgian Community Choir perform for the first time- Well done!

And it was excellent to share the evening with the talented students and staff from St George's North.

Very much looking forward to putting this event on again in 2012!

Gospel Choir

St George's North

St George's North

Prep Choir

Grade 5 students 

Prep Choir

St Georgian Community Choir 

St Georgian Community Choir

St Georgian Community Choir

 ~ M. Koelma, Music Department

Drama Update

September will see the culmination of many important and exciting projects in the Drama & Theatre Arts Department.

Both ES4 and Poli 3 students are now nearing the completion of their courses. IGCSE candidates have now filmed monologues by Marivaux, Ionesco and Beckett among others for PAPER 2 of the Drama exam, producing their best work to date, and are now busy creating yet another group devised piece. Poli 3 IB candidates are now embarking on their last piece of coursework: an oral exam which amounts to an overview of their extraordinarily varied and bold work during the last two years. 

Below are some pictures of Poli 3 IB students acting in their final works.

 

 

The stop-motion choreographies being created by ES1 students also merit mentioning. This project, which will also involve make-up design, is shaping very nicely indeed and bodes very well for their future work. 

Last, but certainly not least, Feo, this year’s Junior Play will be performed on Tuesday 13^th and Wednesday 14^th of September at 8 pm in the Centenary Hall. The piece, devised by ES1 and ES2 students, takes Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling as a starting point to then explore the physical, mental and emotional changes that occur during puberty and adolescence. Truly, a play for the whole family since between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

~ S.Kalhat, Drama and Theatre Arts Department

Welcome to Alice Fairhall- Dancer in Residence

Alice Fairhall

Alice has trained in contemporary dance since the age of 15. She was trained at the university of Chichester in the United Kingdom, receiving a BA (hons) in Dance. 

Her training largely focused on choreography and explorational movement classes- technique, Limon, Graham, Cunningham, South American Capoeira. 

Key elements to Alice's training include improvisation, dance history, popular dance, performance and dance movement psychotherapy.

Here at St. Georges Alice will be teaching all levels across the school using technique training as well as encouraging movement for performance. 

Her work in College will be focusing on Contemporary Dance and how we use an understanding of movement to create works.

In the Prep school, her sessions are based on technical lessons and also choreographing a performance work.

In Kinder , she is encouraging an awareness of the body by creating an imaginative space for the children to explore their movement. 

Alice will also be incorporating Dance Movement Psychotherapy in special movement programs such as Yoga, meditation and massage sessions for boarders, teachers and anyone in the St George's community. 

She believes this helps all people to find a centre and focus. Dance and movement gives everyone a very necessary break from the stresses of daily life through self exploration and renewal.

Alice says, "I believe that movement is essential to health and that dance is a fantastic medium to help with discovery of the self in the body, my work here at St George's College will look to find physical awareness, creativity and performing skills amongst the children, in a safe and fun environment."

We welcome Alice as part of our Creative Arts Team. She will be with us until July next year.

Below is an invitation to everyone for one of her special movement workshops! YOGA

~ The Creative Arts Team

Visual Arts Update

Sofía Casullo

Martina Mei

Creando personajes: 

Los alumnos de ES 1, crearon a partir de  ideas propias, personajes muy particulares. Sobre un soporte de  fibrofácil de 17 x 17 cms, los estudiantes diseñaron y pintaron con acrílico   originales y en muchos casos divertidas creaciones. 

Algunos de ellos son, un mono en la playa, un tentador  muffin,   el sonriente  gusano llamado Reef de color verde, un  lápiz, la luminosa Estrellita, el  tomate "Tomatón"  y la  tostada "Pablo" entre otros.

 Para finalizarlos se les dio una mano de barniz, para protegerlos y resaltar los colores. La actividad resultó sumamente divertida.

Eliseo Mamberto

Rosario Lombardi

Rosario Bigliardi

Rocío Galo

Marcos Juni

 ~ D.Gluzmann, Creative Arts Team

NEW!! Yoga Classes for all! Yoga para a todos!

Webisode- USA Gospel Tour

Here is the link to the video of the USA Gospel Choir Performance Tour-

* Click Here- USA Gospel Tour Video *

The Cultural Tour for 2011 was a HUGE success! Students performed 4 amazing shows in incredible venues in Boston, New York and Washington DC! It was a lot of fun and we congratulate all the students for all their hard work in preparation for this.

WELL DONE!!

If you would like to look at photos and read the daily highlights of each day on our Tour, click on the link below:

* USA Gospel Tour Blog *

Stayed tuned for more updates soon!!

~The Creative Arts Team

Creative Arts- USA Gospel Tour 2011

Tomorrow evening, Gospel Choir is leaving for the USA!
Everyone is very excited and have been rehearsing very hard after school and on weekends leading up to this tour.

We will be posting daily on a special blog made specifically for the tour. Mums, dads and friends will be able to follow along with the tour at home via the St George's College USA Tour blog site:
http://usa-gospeltour.blogspot.com/

We hope that everyone has a very restful, fun filled and enjoyable winter vacation.
Stay safe and see you when we all return in August!
Best Wishes,

~ The Creative Arts Team

Music- June

Here is a Music Webisode of THE BIG SING 2011!

It will give you a short glimpse of all the amazing singers and choirs that performed in this evening concert!

It was such a big success, it was a fantastic evening concert!

Looking forward to making more Music after Winter holidays.