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Bharatanatyam: My Cultural Experience By: Tias Sen ’13 Recently, as a culmination of our study of India, I had the privilege of dancing for the World History I classes. Since I was five years old, I have been learning Bharatanatyam, a form of Indian classical dance. It originated Tias Sen performed Indian classical dance for classmates. in Tamil Nadu in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is one of the oldest forms of Indian classical dance. For the past nine years, I have been learning this dance form from my teacher, Radhika Unnithan. She holds dance recitals every year that always benefit a charity, and she choreographs about 15 to 20 dances for over 80 students. Bharatanatyam has been not only a great way to perform for a good cause, but it has also given me the chance to learn more about my culture. Through the mudras (hand gestures) and abhinaya (facial expressions), dancers tell the stories of the different Hindu gods and goddesses and their lives. The songs are in several different languages, but most of the time they are in Sanskrit. As my presentation to the World History I classes, I performed two dances, showed my classmates pictures of the traditional costumes, and told them about my Arangetram, or classical dance graduation (a two-hour solo performance). Doing Bharatanatyam is my favorite extracurricular activity, and I feel very privileged to do it. It has given me the chance to learn about my culture artistically, while sharing it with others. Select Singers Two Cannon School students were chosen to participate in honors choruses featuring the state’s best young singers following a rigorous selection process. Stephen Metz, a senior, and seventh-grader Joanna Copio were among a select group who sang with honors choruses that performed in November at the North Carolina Music Educators Association (NCMEA) Conference in Winston-Salem. Follow the Gold and Maroon Walls By: Bri Wyatt ’12 Upper School art teacher Belinda Armstrong spent last summer creating a masterpiece on the Lower School and Middle School walls. The Fine Arts Department approached her to complete the project and she agreed. “I have always been interested in improving the aesthetics of our school,” she says. “I know that color can impact how we feel, act, and think.” The walls show how Cannon values our core values because of their depiction on the walls in the School’s colors. It was the perfect touch to the hallways, adding passion, color, and life. Mrs. Armstrong also painted a “Go Beyond” logo mural on a wall near the Middle School hallway. See the finished product next time you are on campus! The selection process began in October and culminated with auditions before a panel of six independent judges. Stephen and Joanna worked independently for four weeks with Middle School/Upper School Choral Music Teacher Tim Rancont to prepare for the event. The experience provided both students with a valuable opportunity to work with a nationally acclaimed choral conductor and then to perform with a group. This year’s High School Honor Chorus was conducted by Jefferson Johnson, director of Choral Activities at Kentucky University, and the Middle School Chorus was conducted by Jonathan Willcocks, a renowned English conductor and musical director. 12 | CANNON MAGAZINE
Mint Art By: Angelique Mitchell The Mint Museum in Charlotte was the place to be during the months of November and December to see the artistry of Cannon School students of all ages. More than 90 works of art by students in all three divisions were selected to represent the School in the Cannon School Invitational, a premier art exhibition that showcases the creativity and talent of our student-artists. Artwork was displayed in the museum’s STAR Gallery, which features K-12 student artwork on a regular, rotating basis to promote the awareness and appreciation for visual education within the community. This is the third time the Mint Museum has chosen to exhibit artwork by Cannon students. “The Mint chose Cannon again,” says Belinda Armstrong, the School’s Fine Arts Department chair. “It is a very powerful experience for young artists to have their work exhibited at the premier museum in Charlotte. For many of the older art students, it becomes a significant point of affirmation in their artistic journey.” Creativity from the Start By: Caroline Coggins ’12 When it comes to art, Ms. Krista Johns is as enthusiastic as it gets. Cannon’s Lower School Art teacher lights up when anyone asks her about her students, what she is currently teaching, or why she wanted to teach art in the first place. “Art has always been my passion, it’s what I love,” she says. “I used to love to tutor people in high school, so I thought why not put my two favorite things together” Ms. Johns, who studied art at West Virginia Wesleyan College, says she teaches everything in her Lower School Art classes. She wants her students to experience as many different types of art as possible. Her personal favorite is the unit on clay because it involves fun projects that students do not get to do every day. Perhaps that’s why her students love it too! Ms. Johns tries to run a focused but flexible class. “I want them to be learning one style, but I would never expect their finished work to look the same.” She has been known to add a project into a unit simply because a student asked her to. This gives the students more input while remaining focused on art. Krista Johns shares many types of art with Lower School students. Artwork by Lower School students is always displayed in the hallways and the Arts Link. Ms. Johns encourages everyone to come by and see all the great projects her students have been working on. CANNON MAGAZINE | 13
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