Wednesday 30 April 2014

5-minute Shakespeare


Our inspiring young English teacher Sharon Lam, herself a CIS alumna, challenged her class to distill Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet into a series of mini-playlets: working in groups of four, they had to use only extracts of the original text, while condensing the action into just five minutes for each of the five Acts of the play. And she gamely undertook to perform Act One herself - on her own.


Filmed by Mr Murphy


Monday 28 April 2014

Flash Mob


As part of one of the first semester's off-campus inter-disciplinary activities, Madeleine Witt, Hannah Hui, Crystal Leung, Gabbie DeSombre, Vanessa Tidmarsh, Kelly Kwok and Jemima Barr - the girls from dorm room 302 - decided to explore local Hangzhou people's attitudes to laowai by staging a flash mob dance routine - to Jessie J's Domino - in a series of locations around the city. (Fin McCombe and Jeffrey Lam couldn't resist joining in. Although the little Chinese kids getting in on the act is even cuter.)

Most Hangzhou citizens did not think laowai were 'crazy'.... until this.


Filmed (mostly) and edited by their Coach Mentor, Aydee Tie


Sunday 27 April 2014

'Pleasure in Music' - CIS/GYS joint concert 2014


On January 10th, 2014, members of the CIS school orchestra came to Hangzhou to perform in an annual goodwill concert with musicians from the Greentown Yuhua School, whose campus in the north of the city hosts CIS Hangzhou.

This is a brief highlight reel of the one-hour concert, shot from an elevated position on one of the galleries in the CIS Hangzhou Music School by Justin Choo with JJ Cheng recording sound; edited by Justin.


There's a similar reel filmed from the back of the auditorium by Jasper Ng (sound recording and editing by Hayson Chu), but unfortunately the sound quality's a bit variable on that.


Both filming teams also produced full versions of the concert, which can be seen in this post.



Saturday 26 April 2014

Lion Dance


As part of a Chinese/PE inter-disciplinary enquiry, groups of students investigated the history and traditions of Chinese lion dancing, and then devised and performed their own Lion Dance routines for a final assessment in their PE unit on 'Aesthetics'. This is the opening performance by Ryan Hsu, Richie Cheng, Sierra Chiao and Vanessa Wat. It begins with school director Richard Pratt 'waking' the lions in the traditional manner by painting the pupils on their eyes.


Filmed by Nick Berry


Other group performances in this activity (also filmed by Nick) can be seen as follows:
Charlie Salnikow, Axel Leven, Jemima Barr and Cheryl Lee
Marcus Lee, Yudo Wong, Natalie Lui and Coach Mentor Chen Yuan
Tynan Eurwongpravit, David Jnr Zhang, Kelly Kwok and Coach Mentor Lorna Scott

Friday 25 April 2014

Superstition!



Victor Yin and Lauren Chillington consider whether there's any truth in numerology and other superstitions.



A short film by Nicholas Hildebrandt, created as part of a final group presentation in the Maths-led Inter-Disciplinary Experience (IDE) at the start of April


Wednesday 23 April 2014

Kitchen Stomp!



Kelly Kwok, Justin Choo, JJ Cheng, Gabbie DeSombre and Grace Stevens doing a final rehearsal of their 'kitchen stomp' routine for the assessment of their Performing Arts module on Percussion


Filmed by Mr Karena