Hannah and Fatima, who took part in the DTC "Veterans" workshops last year at Kepler Gymnasium in Freiburg, are participating again this year in a different role - that of Student Mentors. They are assisting Sean and Mayuna in working with 22 students from three Real Schules. Here is their journal entry:
When we arrived on Tuesday at the Weiherhof-school, we were first a bit confused, because we didn't know which role we were going to play or if the students were ready to work with us. So at the beginning we stayed in the background and started slowly to go towards the students and to help them doing the exercises. The students were very open, friendly, motivated and they accepted us soon. We also mentioned on the second and third day that they built up trust in us and that they did not fear going towards us and asking for help or ideas. So that was great for us, because at that moment we knew that they like us and really wanted us to help them. It was great to experience how the whole choreographies developed and how many new things also we could learn from the students. All the students, no matter if they had dance experiences before or not, tried so hard to show their feelings and to put all their energy into the project. It was a great feeling to see how we, as the veterans, could support them and also witness how they got better in knowing how to move their bodies and how to express their feelings. While watching the students we observed a lot of similarities to our own workshop-experiences in 2006 and 07.
We really do think that this whole project is an amazing thing and we are really happy to have the chance to be still involved. We are also proud and very thankful that we got the possibility to reach a new level by teaching others and working together with professionel dancers.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
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