Performing Arts – Lockdown Arts Festival
We are excited to share with our Marist Sisters’ College Woolwich community the winners of the Sydney Catholic Schools’ Lockdown Arts Festival. Themed ‘Looking Outwards From a Life in Lockdown’, the Performing and Creative Arts festival celebrated the joy, creativity, optimism and resilience of Sydney Catholic Schools’ students, families and staff, during the pandemic.
More than 900 creative works were submitted to the festival. Impressively, two Marist Sisters’ College Woolwich students, Megan Lam (Year 7) and Isabella Allsopp (Year 9), were acknowledged among the winners.
Megan was the recipient of two prizes – First Prize in the area of Drama: Monologue/Duologue – Lower Secondary for her wonderful Les Misérables Cosette monologue and Highly Commended in the area of Music: Performance – Lower Secondary for her exemplar solo cello performance of Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 – Part of Movement:
Isabella was Highly Commended in the Contemporary Dance – Lower Secondary section with her expressive Angel’s Dance film, which she choreographed and performed in.
To quote Isabella:
This composition was made for an assessment task where we had to create a dance based on something in our house. I chose the ‘red angel’ in my house. I was required to use motifs, which were the circular pathways to represent the halo and slicing movements to represent the metal that the angel is made out of.”
We commend Megan and Isabella for entering this festival and for their impressive placings. Thank you so much for sharing your Drama, Music and Dance gifts.
