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Calling all student singers and dancers

May 2009

Calling all student singers and dancers.

Calling all student singers and dancers.

Do your students want to sing and dance in front of up to 10,000 people in the state's biggest variety show at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in June?

The Creative Generation - State Schools Onstage team is calling for student singers and dancers to audition for this once-in-a-lifetime show and be part of the headline event for Queensland's 150th anniversary celebrations.

Dance students are invited to be part of this show in two of the main items, Good Times and How Far We Have Come. Choral students are invited to perform the full massed choir repertoire.

Young Queenslanders will have the opportunity to perform alongside showbiz greats including country music star Lee Kernaghan, pop sensation Ricki Lee, ARIA award winners Operator Please and 2008 So You Think You Can Dance winner Jack Chambers.

Creative Generation - State Schools Onstage 2009 will be performed at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre at Boondall on June 6 at 1.30pm and 7pm.

To express your school's interest in being part of this milestone event and to obtain rehearsal schedules email Georgie Snow.

Dance rehearsals

Metropolitan dance students will be required to attend the following rehearsals:

Good Times:

Northside dancers:
May 2, 8am-1am at Redcliffe State High School

Southside dancers:
May 2, 2pm-6pm at Balmoral State High School
May 3, 8am-1pm at MacGregor State High School

All dancers:
May 24,1pm-6pm at Kelvin Grove State College
May 31, 9am-12pm at MacGregor State High School

How Far We Have Come:

Northside Dancers:
May 3, 8am-1pm at Redcliffe State High School

Southside dancers:
May 4,10am-4pm at Springwood State High School

Dancers from regional schools will be given teaching material.

Choir rehearsals

Chorister schools will be given teaching material. Metropolitan and north and south coast schools will be required to attend the massed choir rehearsal at the Sleeman Sports Centre at Chandler all day on May 24.

All dance and choir students will also be required to attend rehearsals at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre at Boondall during show week from June 2 (dancers on June 2 and choir on June 4) to June 5.