PERFORMING ARTS

PERFORMING ARTS 2024

A Night To Remember

It was with great anticipation of a good old ‘Aussie As’ feast of entertainment that brought  the crowds to the PAC for 2024’s ANTR. What a bargain entertainment package the audience received as they were treated to music, drama and some standup comedy produced from students across the school. There was music from Australian composers, a few dad jokes, some vocal gymnastics explored with a Tones and I track. Nostalgia lane beckoned with renditions of Waltzing Matilda, The Man From Snowy River theme and a nod to our ‘Sunburnt Country’ poetry. Many students offered up some solo or duet performances and students from our Junior and Senior School Bands, Guitar Ensemble, Vocal Group nd Drama Club, showed off their extra-curricular performance skills. Our VCE music group ‘Jesus and the Beanie Boys’ delivered an original number and smashed out some Hoodoo Gurus to finish the night. Collectively we are proud of each other, and the collective support we showed to our performing peers on the evening was stellar… or perhaps ‘Bonza’. Thanks to not only our audience and performers – but to all our instrumental music teachers and staff who supported the evening with their skills and time. 

Year 8 Performing Arts students learnt about Commedia dell’Arte. Commedia dell’Arte is an early style of Italian theatre that is responsible for the popularisation of improvised and scripted comedy. The performances comprised of stock characters and comical interludes that appeared in each performance and paved the way for archetype characters we see in modern theatre and film. You can often link many characters in modern performances such as Shakespeare, Chaplin, Sit-coms, even the Lion King to characters in Commedia. The students have been conducting research on a stock character of their choice, this includes looking at the production side of theatre by exploring mask making. Pictured are some of the masks they have constructed.

Ms Reymers and Ms Handley.