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HIGH HOPES
1999 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LIVE AND STATE TV
FIRST PLACE
Article by Bob Weatherly
Photos by Lee Grafton
Seaview High competed in the Final on Friday August 27 1999 at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, in front of an audience of six and a half thousand people. We were selected first in front of 13 extremely good items from other schools.Seaview took its inspiration from its Performing Arts Tour to Japan in 1998 where the group visited Hiroshima and toured the Peace Memorial Museum. The attitude of the people made an impression on the whole group. It can be summed up in the words of Pope John Paul, inscribed in stone at the entrance.
"War is the work of man. War is destruction of human life.
War is death.
To remember the past is to
Commit oneself to the future.
To remember Hiroshima is to
Abhor nuclear war.
To remember Hiroshima is to
Commit oneself to peace."
The dance piece follows four themes:
Normal People
Our theme follows people before and after the bomb simultaneously, showing that similar physical things happen, but there is a social and emotional change, initiated by the instant of the bomb, a moment that changed the world.
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Shin’s Tricycle. A four year old boy, Shin was desperate to have a tricycle. A month before the bomb, his uncle, a sailor, brought him one. When the bomb exploded, he was playing on it, with his friend Kimmi. Both were buried in the back yard, hand in hand, with the tricycle. Forty years later they were dug up to be reburied and the tricycle was uncovered first. It is now in the Peace Memorial Museum. |
Sadako And The Thousand Cranes The bomb affected a two year old girl, Sadako, who developed leukemia. Legend said that she would be cured if she folded a thousand cranes, but she died before completing them. Her statue is now the children’s memorial in Peace Park. |
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Butoh Dance Style Looking on is a spiritual presence, described by the Butoh Dance style, with dancers in white with flowing robes. This style developed in Japan in the late 1950’s as a reaction to the westernisation of Japan after the war. Its movements roots lie in images after the two atom bombs |
Production
The set represented the shape of the A Bomb Dome, the only remaining building from that time in Hiroshima, now maintained as a ruin in memory of that day. The impressions in the walls reflect the way peoples shadows were etched on the stone walls and roads in. The floor cloth design is taken from an aerial photograph of Hiroshima after the bomb.
The music is "High Hopes" from the Pink Floyd album, THE DIVISION BELL. Many thanks to Pink Floyd and David Gilmour for allowing us to use it.
The dance piece had 57 dancers, 20 in the crew and 14 support personnel.
BHUTO Carlie Hunter
Jessica Schmidt
Julia Knights
Jenny Mikolaj
Nikki Smith
Emily Doman
Lauren O'Neil
Amanda Passingham
Alicia Holt
Vanessa Brady
Belinda Snell
Ingrid Gray
Megan Giles
Angela Giles
PRE BOMB Adam Schmidt
Carmen Brady
Debbie Maxted
Lisa Gray
Janelle Fisher
Emma Lowe
Michelle Paxton
Cassie Hatwell
Jasmin Schuyler
Jessica Chadwick
Emily Cwiertniak
Sarah Gilbert
Felicia Dennert
Emily Parker
Cassie Hammond
Jessica Quinn
CO-HOST Nene Takamori
STAFF Robyn Callan
Ian McCloud
Gerry Stevens
Royce Messenger
Doug Vaughan
Bob Weatherly
SADAKO Linda Ventura
CRANES Adrienne Semmens
Jessie McKinlay
Celeste Tripodi
ChelseaWilkinson
Alanna Tulloch
SHIN FAMILY father Ben Donohue
uncle Peter Anderson
mother Belinda Jones
shin Christie Cann
kimi RhiannonPilkington
POST BOMB Kevin Dix
Kim Wagenecht
Jenna Harrington
Maria Yates
Jenna Ingerson
Robin Tatlow-Lord
Karina Natt
Bethany Gigger
Lee Delaney
Kimberly Burdon
Katie Giles
Kate Gilbert
Siobhan Phillips
Vikki Wilson
Shiloe Ebert
Amy Russell
CREW Mark Hawes
Kalista Campbell
Josh Gillespe
Scott Hawes
Angela Potter
Juliette Robinson
Mathew Stevens
Greg Beasley
Melissa Clark
Erin Helps
Mat Lewis
Roland Partis
Damien Nagel
Brooke Rogan
Kelly Angus
Cameron Marshman
Kim Fallowfield
Carly Vertue
Nick Koumenbakis
Kinsleigh Johansen
