Theatre: Directing & Choreography

As a Senior Performance Arts: Theatre student, I was required to finish my major by completing a Senior Seminar project of my choosing.  This project had to test the skills that I had gained over my years at Blackburn and had to first be approved by the Performance Arts Department chairs.  For my senior project, I created an entirely new show with an entirely new concept to the Blackburn family.  I wanted to create an entire show based on dancing, with no speaking, no singing, and no narration, just the dancing to tell the story.  My plan was to tie the show together with the music that I picked to dance to, Motown music.  I named my show Rockin' Love Revue.  The show had ten scenes and a cast of fifteen students, some high school students and some college students, only four boys and eleven girls.  As the storyline, I created a classic high school, love story with all the drama that should be included in a high school story.  To start, I had auditions in October of 2009 and started rehearsals right away.  We had mostly weekend rehearsals to work around everyone's work and school schedules.  I wrote the storyline, choreographed all the dancing, picked all the costumes, selected all the music, and directed all the rehearsals.  Several members of my cast helped building the set pieces and the Performance Arts Department helped pay for some of the materials needed in the set.  All-in-all, the show ran at approximately forty-five minutes and was a huge success, judging from audience feedback during and after the show.  Featured on this page I have a slideshow of pictures of the cast and deconstruction of the sets.  I also wrote an advertisement for the show and an evaluation of the show after it's completion. 

Rockin Love Revue Advertisement
Rockin Love Revue Self Evaluation