The Deeper Side of a Concert

Awesome time: 10-11-2012

"Awwh, how cute they are!"
"They dance so good!"
"Look at their clothes, where can we find same clothes for so many children!"

Those are the thoughts that running in my head whenever I saw cute children performed and danced on the stage for their graduation concerts...

Till I was finally given a chance to get involve and told myself there were more to learn, more to know from the concert experience in one month time.

1. We have to take good care of our voice all the time
Because the backstage is filled with voices and shout of the children, the teachers must raise the voice in order to understand what the other teachers are talking.

"Give me a pen!"
"Did you see XXX students!?"
"They want to go to the toilet!"
"Quick, change the students' clothes!"

You see, if the teachers do not take care of the voice, we going to repeat same phrase again and again, and it is going to waste lots of time since time is golden.

2. Be alert
Children who are giving speeches will  have microphones as an aid in order for the audiences to hear them talking.

Somehow, I learn one thing: We must be alert in moving the microphones away after the speeches come to an halt so that they do not disturb the dance performances.

3. There is no time to take pictures at backstage
The time flies because we are so busy to make sure everything run smoothly on that day.
There is hardly a time for us to sit down, to take a breath.

Well, we can finally do it right after the end of the concert. So yeah, there is time for us to take pictures at backstage when everything comes to a fullstop.

4. Know the parents
First Rule: Know the parents.
Second Rule: Follow first rule

Because the backstage is too small to fit in every single students when 'clothes changing' take place, so some of the students are given back to their parents temporarily after they perform their last dance, before going on stage again to sing group songs.

That is the time we need to make sure who are their parents to ensure they do not follow strangers home. Some of them look exactly like their parents' face, so that's going to be much easier for us to identify their parents, too.