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Gen X Unleashed 2016<br />
This year our school<br />
participated in a unique<br />
competition that unites<br />
four art forms into one:<br />
Music, Multimedia,<br />
Spoken Word and Dance.<br />
Gen-X is unique as it differs<br />
from your usual hip-hop dance<br />
competitions. Participants<br />
from secondary schools across<br />
Auckland battle it out to spread<br />
this year’s theme of hope and<br />
to express their ideas and views<br />
on hope - what it means to us<br />
and how hope has motivated us.<br />
The purpose of Gen-X is for the<br />
youth of this generation to bring<br />
a solution to the main struggles<br />
of our society and our community<br />
through creativity. The purpose<br />
is to make the audience see the<br />
vision and become a part of the<br />
movement ‘to unleash the next<br />
generation of world-changers<br />
through creativity’.<br />
The leaders, Ana, Melania and Lily,<br />
faced a lot of challenges since they<br />
had never experienced an event<br />
like Gen-X before.<br />
Gen-X requires a lot more thought<br />
26 Mangere College - 2016<br />
and meaning in our performances<br />
unlike other dance competitions.<br />
'Participants<br />
from secondary<br />
schools across<br />
Auckland battled<br />
it out to spread<br />
this year’s theme<br />
of hope, to<br />
express their<br />
ideas and views<br />
on hope.'<br />
After our group had their input<br />
into the meaning of hope, we<br />
decided on three main problems<br />
that our society faces: Domestic<br />
Violence, Bullying, and Depression.<br />
In our piece, we told the story<br />
through our main dancer, Cherish,<br />
who portrayed these problems<br />
through contemporary dance.<br />
We tried to create a solution to<br />
this, to show victims that they<br />
aren't alone.<br />
The outcome of this was being<br />
placed 3rd out of 9 Schools. It<br />
was an interesting opportunity to<br />
witness the hard work our fellow<br />
students put in, and to see the<br />
hard work come into fruition. As a<br />
participant of Gen-X, the journey<br />
from the first day of practice<br />
until the day of performing was<br />
extremely hard. Despite the many<br />
struggles we encountered, it was<br />
all worth it in the end, as the<br />
experience created a family bond<br />
among the crew. It was a privilege<br />
to be a part of something with<br />
such meaning and to be called a<br />
world changer.<br />
By Cheridan McCartney and<br />
Samuel Singh
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