This post come from the helpful and multi-capable Sonny Enseln. A first-year Open Dream member, Sonny comes to our group with loads of orchestral and chamber music experience.
Sonny is pictured here working in a Benton Heights classroom. Photo is by Drew Davis, UNCSA dance grad turned photographer.
Week number one of our longest residency this season is now over, and it's been quite an experience. Four classes a day, the first "informances" that we've had to work on this season, two performances of the show, and the great hospitality of Mr. Casstevens. The kids have been wonderful, and the teachers very supportive, it's nice to see that the adults are willing to dive in and be active with the students. We've been covering a lot of material and discovering how different classes have different fortes to try to build off of. The informances on Friday were a huge example of that, and it's great to see that much creativity coming to the stage.
I am actually late with this entry, so we actually have a substantial chunk of week two under are belts, and it continues to surge forward. Monday we met our new thrid grade classes and continued on with fourth and fifth, Tuesday we did workshops for teachers and then charged back to Winston-Salem to fulfill our civic duty (hope you all got out and voted as well) then had dinner with the Casstevens family (thank you so much for the great food and friendship), then back in the fray of teaching AND our first performance in over a week on Wednesday. Boy howdy, doesn't time fly when you're busy?
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