7th Year WAIT UK Kick-Off Workshop
Livingstone House, Chislehurst

 On a crisp autumn Saturday, 24 WAIT members, including the trustees, met at Livingstone
House to commence the Kick-Off workshop of the 7th year of WAIT UK. The workshop
was shorter than the previous years, lasting from the 17th to the 18th September. The
workshop schedule included dance practices, various talks by the older members of WAIT,
and a film night. The dance practices were split into 3 groups, the newer female members
were taught the dance ‘Damaged’, which WAIT has performed in the last year, by Narumi
Le Bas and Theodore Kabeya, with the assistance of the choreographer himself, Jude
Greaves. There was a second girls group, who learned the classic WAIT dance, named
‘The Rose’, which was taught by Elizabeth Wiedicke and Miwa Shaw. The boys were
taught new break dancing skills by Vitas Le Bas, and Daniel Raineri, who helped at the
 workshop on the Saturday.

On Saturday the members participated in an interactive session lead by Farhad Nikayin,
in which the newer members were introduced to the fundamental rules of WAIT, and the
returning members were reminded of them. Many participants said they enjoyed this
approach to learning.

“The explanation of the rules was much more interactive [than before] and
it helped me to really understand them.”  - Narumi Le Bas, 16 years old

 

Read more: Kick-Off Workshop 2011

The WAIT Team Travel To Birmingham

Once again the UK WAIT Team answered the call to Birmingham. On the evening of the 24th of June,

the WAIT Team travelled to Birmingham with what can only be described as, by far the youngest team

to perform with an average age of 14. The mission objective was to train the Birmingham members and

perform at the annual Bourneville Festival where we have become somewhat of a crowd pleaser and

regular occurrence. 15 of us answered the call, including Stephen Stacey, who drove the minibus.

Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances Marshall de Souza (the chairman of WAIT-UK)

couldn’t attend so I attended in his stead and co-ordinated the trip. We arrived at around 9pm at

the Earle’s house, who year upon year open their home to us, there we were warmly welcomed by the

Earle family and the Pritty family. After a nice meal, we gathered with some Kispy Kreme doughnuts

courtesy of Haesul Fagcang for a short briefing of what our goals are for the trip and what is expected

of the team.

Read more: Birmingham 2011