Link to Beginnings!
The Beginnings opera premieres on November 20th, at 2 pm CET. To connect directly to the streaming online, click HERE.
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The 2024 Global Dance Mob
The 2024 Global Science Opera Dance Mob Beginnings
We welcome all of you to learn the choreography, film it while you and your students are dancing. Please send the recording to Janne for final editing for BEGINNINGS.
Choreography and dance: Sofie Bjelland
Composition: J. S. Bach
Voices: Rebekka Kirsten Smith
Keyboards/MIDI keyboards: Oded Ben-Horin
Lyrics & arrangement: Oded Ben-Horin
Recording & mastering: Jim Kvamme
Mixing: Jim Kvamme & Oded Ben-Horin
Producers: Oded Ben-Horin & Jim Kvamme
Recorded at Atmosphere Studios, Bergen, Norway
Filming & editing: Janne Robberstad
GSO in Romania
In April, the GSO production manager was given the opportunity for an Erasmus+ exchange visit to Romania, and what a wonderful opportunity! First stop was the Fine arts department at Ovidiu University of Constanta. The students and teachers here got an introduction to the GSO and to eco-design, and we had several in-depth conversations about the importance of creativity and the arts. A group of sporty students embarked on an experimental co-creative design/drawing-session.
Our talented colleagues in Constanta, Alina and Razvan.
The next stop was Bucharest, where I spent several days with our alpha-contact, Felicia. She has done an amazing job in adapting the GSO-methodology to suit the Romanian school-system. They have expanded the menu of artistic contributions to include artforms as poems and essays. Hopefully we will be able to share some of these contributions soon.
As part of the visit, the Romanian Ministry of Education hosted an online workshop for teachers across Romania, who all got an introduction into the GSO methodology.
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Brazil is steaming into the future
In February, a team from the GSO visited Brazil. Hosting workshops and presentations, visiting five schools an meeting the Department of Education. It was an eventful week, where we got to meet some of all our awesome collaborators.
Some of the team at the Rio de Janeiro Department of Education.
The students at SESC de Campos dos Goyatacazes, who participated in Unfold the Universe got certificates for their contributions in a beautiful ceremony.
A short presentation for students and teachers at Colegio Estadual Machado de Assis.
And a practical workshop in collaboration and concentration, here are students at C.E. Notival Pedro Moli.
HEre are students and teachers at CIEP Jose do Patrocinio.
Teachers in the Rio-area.
A school in the outskirts of the Rio de Janeiro area, C.E. Notival Pedro Moli..
A great group of students from three different schools in the Campos-area gathered for a presentation. This is from Colegio Estadual Jose do Patrocinio.
And finally, teachers from the Campos-area gathered at Colegio Estadual Joao Pessoa at the end of the workshop.
Already from this next semester, Rio de Janeiro state will implement the GSO-methodology in ten high-schools as a pilot project. We are of course simultaneously incredible proud and humble about this. And we are very excited to see Brazil STEAMing into the future with the Global Science Opera!
(Sorry, I probably messed up the order of the photos and names)
the Beginnings poster
The poster for Beginnings is ready! It is made by Jon Hoem, in collaboration with DallE3, and artificial intelligence image maker. We hope it will inspire the production of the opera.