Talent
Without Prejudice
Raw talent is nothing without hard work. I learned this at Thornes House. We had to organise s skit on "Order out of Chaos" for the end of year Concert. I was in "Movement" and Drama and we put our heads together and came up with a concept.
We had a vision of a dark Metropolis landscape with broken down machines that came to life and were "fixed". We worked on it for months and added the Rolling Stones, 19th Nervous Breakdown track to it.
We dressed in foil and crepe paper and worked our butts off at rehearsals and then the day of the heats came and we had to perform in front of the drama teachers.
We were first and we went well, and at the end we all were at the front of the stage, bowing to the applause, and we thought we were so good.
And we sat in the seat and watched the other acts come on and we knew we were winning, in the lead and there was only one more act to come on. Led by a "new girl", bit dopey, we thought, tall and geeky looking, tryimg hard to be with friends with all of us and as per normal 13 year olds, we rejected her.
And the stage went to darkness lighting upon a suitcase on the stage. And out of the suitcase came the girl we had rejected, Tamsin, and she unfurled her tall frame out of the suitcase.
She was a contortionist and became the Conductor of an Orchestra, she leapt she twirled and did hand stands and elegant forward and backward tumbles, long neck stretching like a swan.
She fixed the "Instruments", the bent Cello and guitar and as soon as she had unfurled from the suitcase I knew I was looking at raw talent, sheer raw talent and what a gift she had. And I knew our act was not going to win. She was going to win and deservedly so. She had the talent but she had put in masses of work.
We had put in hard work but she shone this girl. You could tell it was her passion, the dance, the ballet like sweeps and twirls and plies and arabesques. It was like watching a Star being born and were amazed. She had it, in spades, this shy girl, bit on the goofy, geeky side. And on stage she was a Prima Ballerina.
She ended the whole thing by becoming the baton to the "fixed" Orchestra. And they then all played and danced to the beautiful sounds, where at the beginning there had only been discord, and out of tune instruments.
It was a great concept, Tasmin having thought of it, choreographed it and adding the music. She was a genius and I realised we had labelled her and put her in a box.
They won the end of year prize, rightly so, it was brilliant, Tamsin becoming a very popular girl ever after and we horrible little snobs became a lot more tolerant,
Love Janette
Raw talent is nothing without hard work. I learned this at Thornes House. We had to organise s skit on "Order out of Chaos" for the end of year Concert. I was in "Movement" and Drama and we put our heads together and came up with a concept.
We had a vision of a dark Metropolis landscape with broken down machines that came to life and were "fixed". We worked on it for months and added the Rolling Stones, 19th Nervous Breakdown track to it.
We dressed in foil and crepe paper and worked our butts off at rehearsals and then the day of the heats came and we had to perform in front of the drama teachers.
We were first and we went well, and at the end we all were at the front of the stage, bowing to the applause, and we thought we were so good.
And we sat in the seat and watched the other acts come on and we knew we were winning, in the lead and there was only one more act to come on. Led by a "new girl", bit dopey, we thought, tall and geeky looking, tryimg hard to be with friends with all of us and as per normal 13 year olds, we rejected her.
And the stage went to darkness lighting upon a suitcase on the stage. And out of the suitcase came the girl we had rejected, Tamsin, and she unfurled her tall frame out of the suitcase.
She was a contortionist and became the Conductor of an Orchestra, she leapt she twirled and did hand stands and elegant forward and backward tumbles, long neck stretching like a swan.
She fixed the "Instruments", the bent Cello and guitar and as soon as she had unfurled from the suitcase I knew I was looking at raw talent, sheer raw talent and what a gift she had. And I knew our act was not going to win. She was going to win and deservedly so. She had the talent but she had put in masses of work.
We had put in hard work but she shone this girl. You could tell it was her passion, the dance, the ballet like sweeps and twirls and plies and arabesques. It was like watching a Star being born and were amazed. She had it, in spades, this shy girl, bit on the goofy, geeky side. And on stage she was a Prima Ballerina.
She ended the whole thing by becoming the baton to the "fixed" Orchestra. And they then all played and danced to the beautiful sounds, where at the beginning there had only been discord, and out of tune instruments.
It was a great concept, Tasmin having thought of it, choreographed it and adding the music. She was a genius and I realised we had labelled her and put her in a box.
They won the end of year prize, rightly so, it was brilliant, Tamsin becoming a very popular girl ever after and we horrible little snobs became a lot more tolerant,
Love Janette
