Three months of practice pays off as students wow guests with their performances

The City School students pay tribute to mothers, teachers.

ISLAMABAD:

Tableaus, plays and dance performances wowed the guests on the annual day of The City School G-10 Junior Branch on Saturday.

Students from playgroup to grade 4 displayed their talents during the event titled “Colours of Life”, after three months of gruelling practice. The event was held at the Rawalpindi Arts Council.

While little play-groupers performed a tableau telling a tale of honeybees trying to save their honey from a hungry bear, kindergarteners mixed dances and poetry with theatrics on children songs such as “Under the Sea” and “Old McDonalds”. They also sung famous nursery rhymes during the “rhyme time” section, which included “Humpty Dumpty”, “Jack and Jill” and “Mulberry Bush”.

Students of grade 1 and onwards performed an act called “Four Season”, during which they showcased creative ways of expressing various seasonal changes. Spring and summer were shown by an ice cream van made out of thermopol sheets with Hawaiian shirts and umbrellas depicting a beach, while autumn colours and pumpkin carving blatantly hinted towards fall. Snowmen and students clad in ski gear represented winters.

In addition, third and fourth grade students also presented a play featuring Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was quite a hit. However, the most interesting part of the event was an Urdu play titled “Maa Pyari Maa”, showing a child making pleas to a fairy to grant him the best mother in the world. However to the child’s chagrin he either gets a mom who’s too strict or too smothering; in the end he realises that his own mother is the best.

While the Urdu play was dedicated to mothers, a dance performance with a crescent moon backdrop was dedicated to teachers during which second grade girls dressed as fairies and boys wearing tuxedo shirts dancing on Celine Dion’s “I’m Alive”.

“I feel alive because of my teachers today,” said the lead fairy at the beginning of the dance.

Islamabad Chief Commissioner Tariq Pirzada, the guest of honour, said even though he had planned to stay for half an hour, he was so impressed by the performances that he ended up staying for the entire event.

The functions ended with a dance on Shakira’s “Waka Waka”.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 15^th, 2012.