INDEX Celebrations . Home & Garden Seniors ...... NEWS photo Mike Wakefic'd CAHSON students improvise for the camera. Carson kids leave Ottawa laughing Layne Christensen News Reporter lelvristensen@nsnews.com CARSON Graham drama students are buoyed by their third-place finish at the Canadian '* Improv Games, held last weekend in the nation’s capital. “They’re just walking on air, They loved it,” said drama teacher Michael Reid, of the eight Grade 11 and 12 students who competed in the tournament, a non-profit event that pro- vides improvisational theatre training to teams of high-school students from across Canada. : The team included students Dave Morris, Sonia Rivest, Johnny Lee, Ken Kirby, Peter Krouzelka, Dana Evanow, Shannon Lee and Nick Green. Carson Graham's tcam placed second to a team from Handsworth at the provincia! finals held in Vancouver in January. Both teams advanced to the national tournament, ‘April 18 to 22 at the National Arts Centre in Ortawa. At the ‘nationals, Handsworth did not advance from the preliminary round to the finals. Improv is instant theatre, with the audience providing the framework for comedic sketches performed by a team of actors who get no rehearsal and create a scene on the Carson Graham had the highest number o points going into the finals, held before a capacity audience at the National Arts Centre’s 800-seat theatre Saturday, but lost points when the team drew a tricky quotation as the theme for one of four four-minute skits to be performed that evening. The students had a difficult time improvising around the quote, “Oh what a . tangled web we weave” from a poem by Sir Walter Scott, said Reid. Carson Graham’s 1,624-point finish was enough to earn the school. a bronze medal. Gold was awarded to Lisgar ‘Collegiate from Ottawa (1,680 points), while silver went to St. Mary’s from Pickering, Ontario (1,647 points). Casson Graham drama students will be back on stage next week, All but one member from the improv team have key oles in the school play Tom Jones, an adaptation of the novel ~ The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by 18th century British playwright and author Henry Fielding. The play runs Tuesday : through Saturday next week at the school. Treble Choir first in U.S. competition Layne Christensen News Reporter lchristensen@nsnews.com THE Treble Choir has hit another high note in its short yet award- studded career. The West = Vancouver school choir picked up top | prize at an invitational choral festival in Washington, D.C. earlier this month. The 28-member all-girls choir placed first with a score of 96% in the competitica among 25 choirs from Canada and the U.S. The fes- tival culminated in a perfor- mance at the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in the nation’s capitol. Last spring at the Heritage Music Festival in Saratoga, California, the Treble Choir won the gold medal in the women’s choirs division, was named the best choir at the festival and received the adju- dicators’ special award for earning the highest aggregate score, 97.3%. Along with these honours came an invita- tion to participate in Festival of Gold, a national invitation- als choral festival ~— in Washington, D.C. Students in Grade 10 at Rockridge and Grades 10 through 12 at West Vancouver Secondary com- prise the choir, which per- forms under the leadership of Peter Vanderhorst. A teacher at West Vancouver Secondary for 20 years, Vanderhorst said the choir learned of its win in Washington, D.C. the day of its performance at the Kennedy Centre. One of judges gave the Treble Choir a score of 98-plus per cent, the highest mark ever awarded at the festi- val. “Needless to say, it’s a talented group, dedicated and deter- mined to do their very best, very supportive of cach other,” said Vanderhorst. Also as part of the Washington, D.C. trip, the Treble Choir flew to Toronto to perform live on CBC-TV’s Midday show April 6. ON their way to winning gold at a choral festival in Washington, D.c., West Van’ s Treble Choir travelled to Toronto to perform live on CBC-TV’s Midday. The all- - girls choir plans to visit Cuba in May 2001. ; David Stevenson, chairman of West Van’s board of school . trustees, praised the students for their commitment to the choir, “TI hey have the hearts of warriors. They’re true competi- - tors,” he said. “Their accomplishments are truly outstanding when you look at the fact that they went against the best choirs in North America and won. 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