Melrose Leadership Performance Expo
The Melrose Leadership Academy after school program students presented the 2016 Winter Performance Expo on January 20, 2016. I believe that I have photographed each performance expo since my daughter started MLA in 2009. If I am correct, this is my 13th.
A baker’s dozen
The 2016 photo gallery can be accessed here. I have also included the Spring 2015 Performance Expo gallery.
I enjoy watching our younger students prepare for their first assemblies. I enjoy watching them grow into confident performers.
I also cherish seeing older students. Some of these older students I have been photographing since they were in pre-school. I wish our school system would create standardized tests that measured collaboration and presentation abilities. Our students would exceed expectations.
Technology has changed since I first started photographing MLA students… and the marketing of photography products reminds us that “everything has changed about photography.”
But it hasn’t. Kids are still kids.
And adults teach children how to find their place on the stage. Technology does not replace authenticity.
Students learn how to perform and play from adults. Everyone works together. If there is a magical ingredient that makes all this possible, it is not something new.
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