Stage Challenge is a six to eight minute performance where students can be involved and take charge to fully show off their true talents. It is part of a global event involving dance, design and drama reflecting the personalities, concerns, hopes, dreams and interests of students. This event offers the opportunity for our students to experience ‘the buzz’ of performing on a live stage in front of a massive audience. The Stage Challenge competition is held every year, in many countries, since 1980, to help promote a drug and alcohol free environment.
Our performance was based around the Mayan prediction of the end of the world. The performance shows this ancient group of people foretelling the events of 2012. Throughout the performance many natural disasters occur throughout the world and the effects these disasters have on the human race, which results in panic and hysteria is illustrated. Just when humanity believes they have survived the worst, a final wave of destruction hits them, one final test. The audience is challenged to question, has the world ended or will time keep ticking? Their performance concludes with the belief that there should always be hope, as a group we can survive.
Eighty St Pauls Collegiate students, (ie. 60 performers and 20 members of the backstage crew), participated in this years stage challenge.
