Dramaturg/Director/Dancer/Musician
Christmas Around the World '22
Client
Brigham Young University
Year
2022
Location
Provo, UT USA
Casebook
Brigham Young University's largest, annual Christmas performance featuring several teams each performing various cultural dances.
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Workshops
For these workshops, I gathered information about each team coach, gifts from significant times in Christmas Around the World History, and about each team's country that they were representing in their performance. Putting all of these questions together then I made a jeopardy for each team. I had each team spread out through the room and in order to make their guess they had to send up one team member to perform a quick action that corresponded with the category.
Sometimes things got a little crazy!
We had a little fun with the questions for each team based on their teacher and on the country they were representing. This was a great activity that helped each team better understand the country they were representing and bring a little more flare into the choreography.
Lobby Display
This year, since the theme was around the idea of gifts but focusing on cultural gifts I decided for the lobby display to do something a little different. I wanted it more interactive since the year before it felt like people wanted to interact but couldn't so they would just walk by. It is also such a large lobby and venue that need to have big things to get people's attention was a must. So I decided to do some sort of service project. I contacted BYU Y Serve to see if they had any ideas about what I should do and they connected me with Cardz4Kidz.
It's a simple program that you can do on your own and be able to send letters to kids and elderly, and really anyone who maybe needs it, and be able to make a friend and be a bouy for others. So I set it up and we were able to get over 145+ cards in around 14 languages! There were people that drew pictures, people who wrote sweet notes, people who put stickers all over it, and even people who just wished them a Merry Christmas. It was fun to see people from little children to the elderly writing letters to others around the world and knowing that they were sharing a gift that is more valuable than monetary things.
Some wrapped presents added to the atmosphere of the theme "Gifts".
Lots of people participated!
In addition, I placed some posters behind the tables with instructions on what to do and also just talked about the history of gifts. I also put two blank pages, similar to what this book looks like, and put them on the table asking people to write their favorite gift they've ever gotten. Yes, there were some teenagers that wrote down some not-so-funny things, but there were some really week responses as well.
Program Writeup
I had another chance to do a writeup in this years program titled "Presents and Presence". You can read it and so much more in my casebook linked above as well as at https://4thwalldramaturgy.byu.edu/emma-rollins
