Training week 1

Hey great job everyone!
By the way during my announcements yesterday, I forgot to say that we'll need videos for our booth to make it exciting apart from the 5 minutes showcase.
And how exciting these videos are depend on you guys!
If you would like to help, please send in a video of you dancing solo/ with people from the team, and we'll piece the various items together for the video.
If you don't have a camera, bring your song on Sat, and I can film you between 11 to 11.30am. :D

cheers!
jiali

Connecting faith and dance

Came across an interesting read. This extract originated from Dance Advantage. Please go there for the full article.

The Relationship Between Faith and Dance

Dance is born from the heart and soul of people and cultures. Long before the polished refinement of classical or contemporary dance movement, dance lived and thrived in personal expression and communal relationships within a society. Dance was also a highly important and viable means of worshipful devotion, as worldviews of faith were visually demonstrated through offerings of dance. It may seem that as dance evolved more to a stage performance art form that these sacred expressions of faith began to disappear.

Perhaps not completely recognized or documented, dance as a form of worship or as a means for visually incarnating one’s faith is one of the oldest and perhaps richest offerings of dance. Although it is clear that dance and faith have always maintained a dynamic interaction throughout history, it is in this present age that dancers are finding a fresh significance in regards to integrating their beliefs with their artistry.

... (more here)...

The gulf between faith and art is finding needed reconciliation and a more holistic view of what it truly means to create art that is informed and supported by one’s personal faith. As many artists during the time of the Reformation knew, the gift of art is a gift of God to mankind who has created us in His image. The artist therefore can understand themselves as servants of God to humanity, enriching life and upholding its’ truth and beauty through their offerings and servitude. The artist then finds freedom from the pull of celebrity appeal to the higher call of a creative servant, meeting this world in its’ need. The arts were meant to bless and enrich our world.

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6 more days!!
jiali

Brief summary of 26 Sept meeting

Hey!

This is for the benefit of people who are forgetful/ came in late/ overslept/ drifted off during the meeting itself/ "HUH what meeting?!".

Thanks Christine and yunian for leading us into a time of worship and indeed I wish for God to be my "all consuming fire". Once again, be reminded that the best gift we can bring to the church is a healthy, joyful, loving and vital self; not our talents, knowledge, leadership, experience or creativity.

So while I was reminded of my vision while preparing the meeting, I hope that everyone will really take time to think and ask yourself: Why dance? Why dance for God? Why dance in this church? Why dance in this team?

You may not have the full answer, but I hope you won't just brush the questions aside either. If you on the same frequency as me, I hope we can give our 100% best from now on, starting with trainings.

We will start with 8 weeks of training from 10th Oct to end Nov, every Saturday morning 9.30am. We will be using the Danzpeople studio @ POMO for this. EVERYONE is expected to be there, as we start afresh and make training part of our ministry's DNA. Mainly for the purpose of funding the studio rental, everyone also need to contribute to the monthly dance fund. Please pay $10 to Shirlene by every first week of the month. Once again I repeat, that the 1st collection is by 3rd Oct and it is YOUR responsibility to contact Shirlene to pass her the $$.

For the ground rules that we've set, please remember that at the top of the list sits: Be punctual. So on 10th October, everyone is expected to be there on time and properly attired. Do contact the following people (district i/cs) if you have issues with training, e.g. will be late on that day.
People whose pastoral cg is:
MinOps and Northeast - jiali,
Central - Desmond,
East - Shirlene,
West - Christine,
North - Bridget,
JC - Api.

Finally, do check back this blog regularly. We will be having a new look and more features soon. In the meantime, here's a video that to me shows the kind of body control we are hoping to gain after training.


Before one can confidently execute controlled triple pirouette on stage, one should be able to do a quad during trainings off stage. So as we hit the dance studio once again for training, let's not lose sight of why we do what we do.

May our passion be re-ignited this season!
jiali

Brief summary of 26 Sept meeting

Hey!

This is for the benefit of people who are forgetful/ came in late/ overslept/ drifted off during the meeting itself/ "HUH what meeting?!".

Thanks Christine and yunian for leading us into a time of worship and indeed I wish for God to be my "all consuming fire". Once again, be reminded that the best gift we can bring to the church is a healthy, joyful, loving and vital self; not our talents, knowledge, leadership, experience or creativity.

So while I was reminded of my vision while preparing the meeting, I hope that everyone will really take time to think and ask yourself: Why dance? Why dance for God? Why dance in this church? Why dance in this team?

You may not have the full answer, but I hope you won't just brush the questions aside either. If you on the same frequency as me, I hope we can give our 100% best from now on, starting with trainings.

We will start with 8 weeks of training from 10th Oct to end Nov, every Saturday morning 9.30am. We will be using the Danzpeople studio @ POMO for this. EVERYONE is expected to be there, as we start afresh and make training part of our ministry's DNA. Mainly for the purpose of funding the studio rental, everyone also need to contribute to the monthly dance fund. Please pay $10 to Shirlene by every first week of the month. Once again I repeat, that the 1st collection is by 3rd Oct and it is YOUR responsibility to contact Shirlene to pass her the $$.

For the ground rules that we've set, please remember that at the top of the list sits: Be punctual. So on 10th October, everyone is expected to be there on time and properly attired. Do contact the following people (district i/cs) if you have issues with training, e.g. will be late on that day.
People whose pastoral cg is:
MinOps and Northeast - jiali,
Central - Desmond,
East - Shirlene,
West - Christine,
North - Bridget,
JC - Api.

Finally, do check back this blog regularly. We will be having a new look and more features soon. In the meantime, here's a video that to me shows the kind of body control we are hoping to gain after training.


Before one can confidently execute controlled triple pirouette on stage, one should be able to do a quad during trainings off stage. So as we hit the dance studio once again for training, let's not lose sight of why we do what we do.

May our passion be re-ignited this season!
jiali

a good attempt to do both ballet and another genre tgt! u can really tell she is fantastic with her techniques.
ENJOY!

jacq

a good attempt to do both ballet and another genre tgt! u can really tell she is fantastic with her techniques.
ENJOY!

jacq

awesome dance meeting

Hey people, missing dance yet?

Meeting all awesome dancers on 26th September (sat), 10am at Europe room.
*europe room = the one at reception

Those who are not serious about dance can stay in bed.
I know you'll be there. See ya!

love,
jiali