ARC & Trinity Bay HS Performance (2016), film still

ARC & Trinity Bay HS Performance

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Film Details

Country: Australia
Festival Year: 2016

Film Transcript

I was really privileged. About two years ago my son was at Philtech High School and he was part of a dance project with Trinity Bay High students. It was part of that process that had him set on going to Trinity Bay High — he just thought the students were pretty cool. Then I was wandering around in my own brain and I thought, I wondered if the guys that Death Workshop could actually work with our guys. I started ringing school, actually probably starting with school this term, and Stacy stepped up and these beautiful students stepped up. It’s been such a privilege to watch, in the words of my own guys, young people work with young people.

Hi, I'm Ten You. Hey, my name is Ben. We're from TB School. We come and teach our students — we do a Michael Jackson style and also a little bit of hip‑hop.

Hi, I'm Cheyan and I'm 16. I'm one of the Year 11 choreographers. My role is to choreograph dancers and to teach them. What I love about coming here is that we get to teach them how to dance and also how to tell a story through dance, and I just love coming here.

I'm a boy. I'm Hip Hop.

I found that it was really exciting to hang out with people my own age. I really loved it and enjoyed it. It was such an amazing experience learning different steps from the high school students, and it’s just been an absolutely amazing journey.

My name is Sopie Bowman and I am a Performing Arts student at Shin Bay State High School. We came up with a dance to "Keep Your Head Up" and it was actually a really inspirational song because it's about keeping your head up through the toughest times.

Hello, my name is Nathaniel. That's my sign name, Nathaniel. I design the clothes — I do the costumes. We come here every Tuesday to teach the dancing. Thank you.

Okay, so we've got through this project and it's pretty amazing. What are some of the things your kids are saying were the highlights?

Some of the highlights were that they made lots of great friends. They were able to help young people develop their skills through dance and express themselves. Hopefully we can work with Arc next year — I think that would be really good — and then we could take over the world. Thank you. Young people's music and young people's language and young people's energy — and just watching that young people can actually look after young people and create something beautiful.

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14 comments
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Karen Plume 8/08/2016

I had the pleasure of see the final performance with TBay and ARC students and it was amazing to see them all working together and loving what they were doing. A credit to all involved.

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Sule Akbas 6/08/2016

What a fantastic opportunity for all involved. Learning new moves making friends and connections along the way and learning new skills. Absolutely love the idea

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Michael Corden 5/08/2016

Great to see the guys from ARC Disability Services 'Teaching' the students from T Bay High School how to dance. So very moving.

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Julie Sissons 5/08/2016

Awesome Keep on dancing

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andrew barton 5/08/2016

best one. thank you. peace out

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Melissa Louk 5/08/2016

Trinity Bay High and ARC were Awesome I love the dance and the song they did and chose GOOD JOB EVERYONE

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karen jackson 5/08/2016

Loved being a part of this journey and project Awesome job guys

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eliott shield 5/08/2016

best. Cool yes

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sam stott 5/08/2016

well done to all of you such great thing you did with the school adults and very good

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Jamie Walker 3/08/2016

Inspiring and motivational to see the collaboration between all people involved.

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Jo Lundberg 3/08/2016

Fantastic to see the smiles on their faces

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Darren Smith 2/08/2016

This is really good. I thought they all did a great job. I congratulate them on all their hard work.

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Joy Nomani 1/08/2016

U guy done a excellent job

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Gabby Benedetti 1/08/2016

We did a great performance great costumeswe all look awesome and amazing

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