PBC Musical – The Wedding Singer 

In week 3, the Musical Cast and Creative Team travelled by bus to Alexandra Headlands and participated in two night/three day workshops. The camp was hugely productive, we got the show ‘back on the road” after 6 weeks of holidays.

Amongst a strenuous rehearsal schedule we had some down time which included a movie night watching the “Wedding Singer” and also an evening designing brides and bridesmaid dresses (out of toilet paper and crepe paper) for our “PBC 80’s Bridal Fashion Week”, The camp was so much fun and the team is so excited for Opening Night this Thursday 7th March. Tickets are on sale through Eventbrite booking - see links below -

ARTS SPOTLIGHT - 2024 Musical Lead Actors

Drama Excellence 

Our Drama excellence students have hit the ground running. They have had two guest workshops with Acting Coach Errenn from Zia Zag Theatre. They have also started their new unit ‘Acting for screen”. This is a newly designed program by Ms Skyring which has only launched this year.

By the end of the term, students will have completed one self-taped and one professionally taped Monologue/screen reel of two contrasting Monologues. Students will also have their Headshot taken (one black and white, one in colour) for their audition portfolio.

Our goal at PBC is to give our students real work acting experience to ensure they are industry ready and equipped with the right tools to ensure they can confidently audition either on line or face to face for any acting/theatre/screen roles on the Gold Coast or Acting Agency.

Next week the class will catch a bus to “The Warehouse Screen Acting Studio” in Helensvale and participate in a full day/five-hour workshop.

Their Acting Coach will discuss:

§ Critical differences between stage and screen performances

§ The film industry in general including how casting decisions get made

§ The film and TV industry hierarchy (Who’s who and what they do)

§ Headshots

§ Showreels

§ Agents

§ Casting Platforms and Profiles

Students will engage in full body and vocal warmups and improvisational activities. All students will be provided with a short script prior to the program. Each group will perform their scenes on set in a close up shot. Which all students can watch on the screens provided. They will also be provided with acting feedback on the spot for them to implement in a second take.

The drama students will be travelling to Brisbane, QPAC playhouse to see the play “Gaslight”. This award-winning play is a gripping play and will be a thrilling theatrical experience.

The class (with year 9 dance and Year 7 Music excellence) will also be attending Beauty and the Beast – The Musical at QPAC, Lyric Theatre.

Dance Excellence 

This term, Dance Excellence students work with esteemed choreographers for class

routines used in assessments and competitions. From Year 7 to 12, each class

benefits from professional guests, many which are alumni of our program.

Our program will feature the following guest artists and choreographers.

· Year 7 - Amara Ezzy (PNC Alumni)

· Year 8 - Tiani Cashel-Patterson (PBC Alumni)

· Year 9 - Heidi Jennings

· Year 10 - Mackenzie Jade (PBC Alumni)

· Year 11 - Rachel Dowse

· Year 11/12 - Shannon Atkins

These diverse and internationally renowned choreographers challenge and showcase our students.

Exciting news awaits as we prepare for our Hip-Hop combined super team. This will be choreographed by Shante Rae. Auditions are complete, and training began on Sunday February 25th. Additional Super Teams, including lyrical and jazz groups, are slated for later in the semester. All the best for students who are auditioning for these prestigious and high performing teams.

CAX Alumni Spotlight

Cleo Lewis (2020 Dance Excellence Graduate) is back home for a brief Holliday. She has been living in Paris for three years and has just recently been granted the role as the “Lead principal Dancer” for the Moulin Rouge. She is the YOUNGEST EVER Principal dancer in the history of the Moulin Rouge. We are so incredibly proud of our Cleo. She will be back home to PBC this week teaching technique classes to our Junior Dance Excellence students and Showgirl Masterclass with our Senior Dance Excellence students. Cleo will also be a gyest speaker at our upcoming Alliance Breakfast sharing her success ad story with the community.

Visual Arts Excellence 

The Visual Arts Excellence program is designed to give students a variety of

art making experiences across the disciplines of drawing, painting,

printmaking, and three-dimensional art. At the halfway point of term one, the

Visual Arts Excellence students have been working towards their major

projects, through related activities and experimenting with techniques and

processes.

The Year 7 Art Excellence students are working on their major artwork based

on an endangered species. They started the term completing activities that

considered tonal drawing techniques and processes, before moving on to

putting their new skills into practice.

In Year 8, the Visual Art Excellence students have been completing a series of

tonal drawing activities that will strengthen skills needed to complete a flat lay

still life drawing. A flat lay still life is a contemporary take on the traditional still

life that most people would be familiar with.

9 Art Excellence students’ drawing unit consists of experimenting with various

media that will support choices that they make in a portrait of significant

person in their lives. This unit of work is based around the Archibald Prize for

portraiture. If students wish to, they can submit their final artwork for the

Young Archies, the student version of the Archibald Prize.

Finally, Year 10 Art Excellence students have been experimenting with

processes and techniques, with a variety of media, that will allow them to

complete a major artwork that is an alternative way of seeing a public place.

Students are just starting their major artwork, and have chosen interesting

ways of working, and appealing public places.

Music Excellence

Music Excellence is off to a flying start for 2024 with many up-and-coming exciting opportunities for

students, including:

· Year 7 excursion to QPAC, Brisbane to see Beauty and the Beast

· Student involvement in upcoming Surf Film festival “Flotsam”

· Involvement in the upcoming whole school musical ‘The Wedding Singer’,

· Year 9 Music Excellence students entering in the Byron Bay Bluesfest Busking Competition

With our rehearsal spaces and recording studio constantly being fitted-out with the very best inudstry equipment, our students are better equipped than ever for a wonderful year ahead of music making.

Our Year 7’s have begun their fundamental music studies, as well as preparation for their group debut

performance at the Junior Excellence Showcase,

Year 8 is studying and pushing boundaries with the incorporation of music technology in their performances.

Year 9’s are delving deeper into the study of Musicals and the importance of music in productions, while our Seniors are working hard on their independent performances and compositions for their senior assessment pieces.

We can’t wait to share more student work and performances as the year progresses from our very strong, talented and dedicated cohort.

Loren Skyring, Head of the Arts & Creative Arts Excellence