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My immediate and gut reaction is to put on a production. In one of the
highschools that I went to (don't ask) our phys ed department had a
competition
every year, which was a real big whoop in that school. The school was
divided
into halves, each half represented a color of the school colors (i.e.
the red
team and the blue team). Each 'class' knew what team they were on.
Each
'class' had to prepare a 'routine' that the whole class did as a group,
complete
with music and costumes. My group did Dance McCabre (MaCabre Mountain
maybe?)(a
classical piece, but I don't remember who/where etc, it was in l967),
and we all
did a combination gymnastics (basic forward rolls for me!), tumbling,
movement
that as a class we DESIGNED under the guidance of our teacher. These
kids were
fanatacal about this (the whole dang school went nuts about "Sports
Night" as it
was called),and we worked a L O N G time on it. As my expertise was
art, I
designed the costumes. We were skeletons, and did movements similar to
Michael
Jackson's moves in Thriller (OK so in our HEADS they were similar!). I
did the
face make up and the skeleton costumes for 30 girls). Every group
worked in a
similar fashion. The older kids obviously did harder 'tricks'. Of
course in my
day we were seperated by sex as well. The whole town showed up for this
extravaganza, and each team competed against each other, i.e. blue girls
9th
grade vs red girls 9th grade. Local celebrities judged, using the
typical,
"costumes", "use of theme", "crispness of movements" "unity" "use of
music",
type of assessment. All I remember is that my best friend at the time,
Charlene
(Cookie)Justice was 'picked' to be the Red Team captain, whose job was
to
"introduce" each group, their theme, and musical choice over the
intercom. She
thought she died and went to heaven!

Of course you could just put on a regular production, but quite frankly
if you
don't have any drama experience, you might feel overwhelmed with a
regular
production.

San D

christine kotarsky wrote:

> I hope someone who reads this is a PE teacher or A Drama teacher or a
Dance
> teacher, or knows someone or something to help.

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