This post comes from Marissa Byers, an amazing clarinetist and fire dancer (yes, really!) Marissa is a high school graduate of UNCSA School of Music and first-year Open Dreamer.
The Open Dream Ensemble is one of the most significant reasons I'm glad to have moved from Manhattan back to my home town... The ever lovely, classy and bohemian, arts and history packed town of Winston Salem, NC. It's thrilling to witness the world class standard of excellence that resides right here in Camel City. The Open Dream Ensemblers rep-re-sent. What a driving, rocking, energetic and crazy fun cast of characters! Haydee, Julianne, Danielle, Ace, Adrien, Guy, William, and Ulung... It is safe to say that we have reached sibling status by now.
The first month of this season was incredibly demanding for all of us. I mean wow. Wow. Between learning and memorizing lines, music, choreography and stage direction for the show AND the six episode web series, and diving into education training- to learn classroom management, state standards, daily lesson planning to devise theater, music, and dance activities as our means to teach students about science ... Not to mention learning elementary school science(which is not that elementary), THEN teaching it as we embarked on our first residency AND performing our show Peril on the Red Planet(we are also the load in and load out crew)... I'm stunned that I still remember my own name.
Can I just mention now- after my rant- that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT?! Everyone in this group works hard and is phenomenal at what they do. We're all divas and we know it, but the generosity, humor, and sportsmanship of this ensemble is astounding. To the gorgeous brain mama of it all, Rebecca Nussbaum, hats off to you ;)
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