The show, One All, is currently being created in collaboration with the third years of Barrhead High. Since Christmas the students have chosen to take one of five strands; movement, media, text, design or music, and have been creating material for the show. But what’s been happening so far?
Movement have been working on various movement sequences which will go at the beginning and during the show. I was lucky enough to be invited in to see a short section that the movement group have been working on and its very exciting! As well as the movement sections, this group will also be working on a line dance in collaboration with the Dunterlie Dancing Feet that will hopefully also involve a large section of the community and a sequence dance with another local community group.
The media group are working on a video of a football being kicked around Barrhead. They have been working really hard on this and have over 30 shots done already. Community members have also been involved in this, thanks to everyone who has kicked a football for us! A second video is also in the pipeline and more information will be posted on this as it’s created.
Design group are just about to start to make signs similar to the advert boards in the football ground. Keep an eye out for these as they will be appearing out and about in Barrhead about 2 weeks before the show.
The music group have split into a singing ensemble, a band and electronic music and are busy creating the sounds of the show. The band will soon begin work on writing a song about Barrhead and are also working on a song about Shanks. The singers will be performing two songs currently being rehearsed and the electronic music section are creating some very exciting pieces of music using sounds from Barrhead. From the community, a local singer Samantha Hill and cabaret act Burt Turner are getting involved, as is the contributor of the Shanks song, Archie Boyd.
You may well have noticed the text group out and about round Barrhead interviewing people. They’ll be working this into the text for the show.
So far we have been doing one workshop a week with the students, and next week is the second of our intensive weeks where we will be spending all week in the school. During this time we hope to bring in all the community members we are working with and start to bring all the material we have so far together.
Check back here at the end every week for an update of what’s been happening in the run up to One All.
