For this amazing term, we have a cool program called Dancing like the Stars. It is when we train to perform skills that we learnt with an instructor with some music or a song. This year, we have a very different but special dance routine. Instead of just normal dancing like most other schools in most other years, we get to do circus as our performance! That also means a lot of skills, balance, control and training.
We only just started our first practices on Monday and Tuesday. Our first session was on Monday after lunch, walking all the way to the circus hall. To boost off some basic but important circus skills, we did lots of counterweight activities. Counterweight activities are when one shares their weight with another person, meaning safety and balance is very important here. Some examples of the counterweight that we did on the first day was a pyramid, consisting of 6 people. We got told that there may be more fun and complicated tricks later.
On Tuesday, we tested our skills whether we would best fit in hula hooping, diabolo, or poi. We split into smaller groups so that everyone had a turn at having things a go. I did the poi first, which was spinning and doing tricks with a piece of rope, a heavy pouch, and a coloured tail. Next for me was the diabolo, a piece of string attached to 2 sticks to keep spinning like a yoyo. Last was my favourite which was the hula hoops. I think I did best in hula hoops and I managed to pull off some simple tricks.
Our class goal is to be able to perform such cool acts for our final performance. There will hopefully be acrobatics and fun counterweight tricks, hula hooping, poi, and diabolos. I am looking forward to learning more complex tricks for our final acts with our fantastic instructors!
What suggestion would you add to our acts so that the outcome is the best?