Redeafination Embarks on Year Long Training Collaboration with NRA

New Revolving Age (NRA) is a dance crew based in Ngee Ann Polytechnic. They have had dance workshops with Redeafination in the past. This led to the idea of having us as a guest feature in their upcoming biennial concert, Danzation.

This would be the 1st long-term collaboration among Deaf and Hearing dancers.

It was a huge project to take up, with lots of commitment involved: Training was done on a weekly basis, though increasing in frequency as the concert drew nearer.

Our dancers were exposed to several styles of dance, such as B-boying, Jazz, Locking, House and different interpretations of Hip Hop.

NRA Dancers, on the other hand, were introduced to sign language and a basic understanding of Deaf culture, in a first-ever customised sign language course that covered both the basic syllabus of sign language as well as dance terms in further detail.

All of the dancers successfully completed the course with a 100% pass rate, having been taught by local sign language instructor Lily Goh, at the Singapore Association for the Deaf (SADeaf).

Redeafination Auditions for YOG Opening

Dancers were needed for the opening ceremony of the Youth Olympic Games (2010) .

The audition, which was held at O School, led to the participation of over 150 people,  8 of which belonged to Redeafination. While we did pass the audition, only Geeta was able to fully commit to the training schedule, and continued to attend rehearsals for the item.

It was the 1st time a deaf dancer was accepted through a public audition, and definitely quite an experience for Geeta.