Written by Dunni and Lola | 16 January 2010

The royal Opera house is a ballet show that shows different kind of ballets for you and your friends to watch.The seats ook so royal and beautiful but you might not think it is a good as you thought it would be.I went to the Royal Opera house and the toilets were clean everywhere was clean and it looks nice but you are there to watch ballets not to see how Royal it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can go on http://www.roh.org.uk/video/index.html?bcpid=1733261711&bclid=1740131613&bctid=41872308001 I went on it and it is apsolutely fab i can't even explain how good it is!

The Royal Ballet’s Masterclasses raise the curtain on the rehearsal process, allowing you to see ‘behind-the-scenes’ action. The dancers rehearse a work under the guidance of their teacher, to the accompaniment of a pianist, and before the audience’s very eyes – so that everything has a ‘fly on the wall’ feel.

Even Monica Mason was present at the ‘Agon’ Masterclass on Thursday 15 October. A hushed silence overcame the audience when she entered the studio, immediately followed by self-aware laughter. And there were more laughs to come with stager Patricia Neary’s great wit, energy and humour. Who better to rehearse Balanchine’s masterpiece than one of the first people to dance it? Neary has taught the piece for forty years and she recounted numerous amusing anecdotes about her experiences of working with ‘M. B’, as she affectionately calls Balanchine.

As you’d expect, Neary has very high expectations – and always tells it how it is. ‘It’s not spectacular’, she says to one of the dancers about a particular step just performed. Pat, as she is known in the ballet world, consistently corrects the dancers during the class and gets them to repeat anything that is not totally right. This is the kind of perfectionism that produces the first-rate performances we see on the main stage. And dancers Yuhui Choe, Melissa Hamilton, Johannes Stepanek, Brian Maloney and Eric Underwood don’t seem to mind. In fact, they seem to have great admiration for her. Pat’s passion and enthusiasm for her work is infectious – and this extends beyond the dancers. When Johannes Stepanek gets a step right after Pat’s corrections, there were shouts of ‘yeah’s from the audience and lots of clapping.
This is the royal opera house inside does it look royal to you?



Can you spot the differences between these two pictures?


Here our the two logos can you spot 14 or more differences between these pictures?

This is the Royal Opera house logo

Written by Dunni and Lola | 14 January 2010

The African Nations Cup started on the 10th of January 2010 with  Angola being the host country. I enjoy watching the African Nations Cup because, it is a competition that brings all African people together. The Nations Cup is about celebrating the special and talented players in Africa.
I am a huge Nigerian supporter since, it is the country of my origin. I hope Nigeria win the Nations Cup. Nigeria's star player is John Obi Mikel. He has unbelieveable talent and could potentailly become great. He plays for Chelsea football club. He is a midfielder and Nigeria's playmaker.
There are other amazing teams in the Nations Cup. Ivory Coast, who are the favourites, have the most talented bunch of players in Africa. Their star man Didier Drogba plays for Chelsea football club. Cameroon who are four times African Nations Cup champions will be very hard to beat. Their star man is Samuel E'to who plays for Inter Milan. Ghana have the most solid team in the competition. Their star man is Michael Essien who plays for Chelsea football club. The other team to watch out for are the five times and the winners of the last two tornaments, Egypt. Their star man is Mohamed Zidan who plays for Borussia Dortmund. The outsiders are the ever so dangerous Algerians. The Algerians qualified for their first world cup since, 1982. Their star man is Karim Ziani who plays for Vfl Wolfsburg.

Tune in on EuroSport at 3:30 and 6:30 daily to enjoy Africa's best players on show.

Written by Elizaveta Luba | 14 January 2010

On Christmas day i watched my favourite programme called Doctor Who. The emotional part was when the grandad knocked 4 times because he wanted to get out of a trap and he was scared. It was sad because The Doctor was about to die. What inspired me was all the effects and the master and how all the time lords came back. My favourite character is the master now because he  faught the president time lord to save the doctor.

- Luba

Written by MARCIA DWAUN | 14 January 2010

Today i spoke about a film that i watched at the movies, called Where the wild things are.  I rememebered this movie as a book that i read when i was a child, it scared me but i liked it.

The movie was good it lived upto my imagination as a child and bought up  memories of when i was growing. I was glad that they made a movie that my own children could watch.

Written by danielle adelaide | 14 January 2010

Today was our first meeting with Arts Beyond the classroom. We started off by having a group discussion about what has isnspired us most lately. (It's harder than you think!) After careful consideration I chose Avator (partly because it's the only thing I've seen lately) I wouldn't say it inspired me but it definetley made me think about life and our planet and how precious everything on earth is. It also encouraged me to buy Elise a pet hamster he's growing on me!!!

Danielle

Today we spoke about what inspired us the most lately. I chose animals because some people treat animals really badly and it kinda makes me feel sorry for them so i think all of us should treat them the way we treat people. We also learned how to do our own blogs and diffrent interveiw techniques.

Elise

Written by Elizaveta Luba | 14 January 2010

Recently i visited the history museum for the first time. I went to visit there because I needed to do research for college. When I got there I was very surprised about how beautiful the artifacts were in the museum and I learnt many interesting things about the history of other cultures. For example, In the asian section there was a big gold gong which was used in China also there was a statue of a gold buddah statue which was usually found in ancient temples. One thing which I remember is a crystal skull which was in a glass box, it made me think it was very precious and the fact that it was made by hand hundreds of years ago fascinated me!! This museum inspired me to study History in college! 

- Lizzie

Written by jordan | 14 January 2010

my name is jordan I like boxing because it is a great sport you can do lots of sparring and training.

I go every saturday and I train very hard . i like skipping we skip for about 10 minutes and we go really fast. We do skipping to build up our stamina.
We do lots of ground work. Ground work is pressups, sit ups and pike jumps, burpees ( a burpees  is a bit  like a pressup but you push your feet backwards
and jump up in the air). It is really hard work but you get very fit.

I went to see a semi- professional fight in Southend. It was very crowded and it was like The Repton Club but a bit bigger. I saw Cameron (a friend of my Dad's) box against another fighter. Cameron won and it was exciting because I didn't know who was going to win.

My favourite programmes on tv are the simpsons and eastenders
 

Written by meyrem zehra | 14 January 2010

Today we met as a group and spoke about what inspires us . We found out about future events and was a bit shocked when we found out we had to take some photos . The children loved taking the photos.

My  mum  was  inspired  by  food all  around   the  world. Especially her  grandmothers . She  loves  cooking   puddings  once  i  start  to  eat  it  i  cant  STOP. 

Zehra loves horrid histories she first learnt about it by reading a book from school and then looked on the internet and found the website she loved playing the games and learning about the tudors.

Written by Dunni and Lola | 13 January 2010

Hello my name is Dunni and the thing that inspires me is the opera house because it has nice ballets and it looks Royal. Also i think that the opera house could improve by not just having ballets but also having differnt things like acting and more stuff.

Written by Anita and Naya | 13 January 2010

Hurray! to day was the start of the second arts beyond programme. I am in the first session new children and parents i am looking forward to getting to know them all a bit better.

I was asked to blog about art i have reently seen that had an impact on me. I was recently in Ghana and my cousins visited Elmina Castle in Cape Coast where they use to keep the slaves before they sent them overseas there was a copule of pictures they took that left an impression on me.  I have inserted the pictures with comments to explain my thoughts.

Written by nile and alex | 13 January 2010

nile says; i think  its good because you get to spend more time with your parents( when your not getting shouted at about messy rooms)

alex says; i was looking forward to spending time with nile and talking about something else other than the football and not yelling at him about his untidy room.

also,i've always wanted to blog but i've never known where to begin.

Written by Anita and Naya | 13 January 2010

Today I am back on the Arts Beyond programme 2010. I am very excited and I am looking forward to all the wonderful activities we will be doing. In todays session I was asked to write about an art or creative thing that I have seen recently, I said the shakepeares globe theatre because it inspires me to be a play writer.

I am looking forward to visiting the globe theatre especially the stage and hopefully I will get to see some acting on the stage. I am also looking forward to seeing how the olden times theatre looked like, the seats, the size and how small the so-called pit is and if they could see really well and it was probably not very comfortable.



picture of the globe theatre.

Written by Alison and Keon | 07 January 2010

Hi Everyone,

Happy New Year to you all.

I’ll be honest; I stopped blogging on this site and got consumed in moi, moi n moi again. So thanks for the prompt E.
I like the new look-not bad.

Both Keon and I are looking forward to meeting new parents and new experiences. I really enjoyed last year, made some good friends, had lots of laffs and hopefully will continue to be creative.

A

Written by nickcan | 06 January 2010

I'm loving the new look blog...and was very excited to have a mystery comment posted from a friend of one of the choir singers... I was thrilled to see everything that has been written by staff from both schools and love the videos too - tho' my screen grab is very, very strange (unless of course I actually look like that - in which case I'm off for surgery straight away!)
I'm really hoping that this new look blog will pave the way for all sorts of comments - I'm already thinking of going to the Saatchi Gallery this weekend (snow permitting!) and Wilsons Music Hall. Not sure that Josh's band would be up my street...but who knows? Thank you everybody for all this brilliant work. Keep it up - who will get most 'kryptonite'?

Written by Eelyn Lee | 06 January 2010

If you've read Josh's blog about The Wilton Music Hall you will have read about The Bonfire Band ... and maybe even checked out their Myspace link. If you've read Jenny's blog about Broadway Market you might be tempted to go down one Saturday where you'll be delighted to find The Bonfire Band playing regularly !!!! Here're images of some other visual treats in the area: a snowy London Fields...... and some Banksy graff in Bethnal Green

Written by Eelyn Lee | 06 January 2010

It was great to meet you all yesterday - I look forward to sharing some cultural experience with y'all! Let us know about things you're doing in the classroom with digital tools too......please hola if you need any help with anything. Crayton.... did your Vimeo link come through?