Our school’s Chinese New Year celebration and black belt promotion ceremony is coming up way to fast. I’m not one of those moving up to black belt this year, and I wish them all the luck I have to offer, but I get to make the Demo for the beginner kid’s class. This task of getting about 30 kids in age from 6 to 11 to perform a choreographed demo to music on stage is not to be taken lightly, I realize now. Sometimes, making kids do things can feel like trying to herd cats. We’ve been working on it now for a few weeks and I was wondering if I might have started too late, but tonight’s class gave me a bit of much needed hope. I split the class into three groups, each group with a different short combo. I just tried for the first time to put it all together today with the blocking and the cues to come on stage and the music and all the madness that comes with putting this together. I’ve never actually done anything like this and, instead of getting advice or help, I’ve basically just been winging it but it is working. Somehow. The class impressed me today too: I asked them to stand quietly while I figured out each group’s entrance, exit and order on stage and, for the most part, they did. Of course they weren’t perfect, but considering that I asked them to stand still and do nothing, I’m happy with anything short of a riot. There is still a lot to smooth out and a few things to figure out, but it’s going to work.
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