Since Hina is such a huge fan of Taeyang, we celebrated her birthday by doing a choreo to one of his latest songs for class.
Besides, that we had also arranged for Taeyang the man himself to come down all the way from Korea as a surprise. Will our special guest show up?
Redeafination would like to thank Yang Rong Fa from SPH for featuring us.
We would also like to clarify that the use of the word 聾哑 （deaf-mute）is discouraged. It should be replace with 听障 or 失聰. As such, “Singapore Association for the Deaf” is usually translated to 新加坡聾人協會 instead of 新加坡聾哑協會. We however are not sure of the official stand of the Association on their official chinese name.
Below is the translation for the extract pertaining to Redeafination.
Dated Sept 22 Lianhe Zaobao
Yesterday, 7 hearing impaired dancers and 4 hearing dance instructors dancers performed at the National Museum of Singapore (for International Day for the Deaf). Even though they communicated only by sign language to put this routine together, their stage presence is on par with any other hearing dancers. Their performance was very well-received and won much of the audience’s applause.
Hearing impaired dancer, Roseanne Loo, 20, student, expressed to us in sign language, that even though she is unable to hear hear well, she is as passionate about dance as any other hearing dancer. She hopes that through her own hard work, she can show the world that given the right training, the deaf can dance very well too.
Redeafination would like to thank Si Wan from SPH for featuring us. 
Dated Sept 22, Straits Times
Redeafination, a hip hop dance group for the deaf, also wowed the audience with its coordinated moves to pop songs such as Lady Gaga’s Pokerface and Nobody by Wonder Girls, despite most of the group members unable to hear the music.
Their secret: feeling for vibrations, watching one another’s moves and looking for cues from their instructors. Said one of the dancers, administrative officer Liang Hui Shan 25 : “Dancing is another way for the deaf to express themselves. It can be very difficult and we need to practise repeatedly to get the rythmn but the audience has been very supportive.”
We would like to thank Mr Edmund Lee for writing up an article on Redeafination in NTU Chronicle Online.
A RARE scene occurred after one dance team came out for its curtain call bow at the Modern Jazz Dance concert Dancetitude 2009—hands were gesticulating high up in the air among the audience instead of the usual applause.
Mr Patrick Loo, the Resident Instructor of Modern Jazz said at the curtain call that “waving of hands” is the more appropriate way to show appreciation for the dance team Redeafinition Redeafination, made up of members who are hearing impaired. hearing impaired members as well as hearing members.
The 15-member team, all some hearing impaired dancers with varying degrees of hearing difficulty, seeks to increase deaf awareness, through the “universal language of dance”.
Their appearance in Dancetitude 2009: Stories through dance, on August 22nd, came as a surprise for many who were just expecting a conventional hip-hop dance concert.
“I found their dance segment emotional and very touching,” said Chew Zi Yan, a 21-year-old student majoring in Architecture in National University of Singapore (NUS).
He added: “I think a lot of effort has been put in by them to make this happen, especially when they cannot hear the music they are dancing to.”
Other items in Dancetitude 2009 drew praises from the members of the audience as well. Alongside NTU’s Modern Jazz team, the concert also featured performances by dance teams from SMU and NUS.
According to 21-year old Melissa Ng, the President of Modern Jazz, this year’s concert is unique because every dance item tells a different story.
“The production this year moves away from the typical item approach and instead has stories woven into the concert,” said the third-year student from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information.
“Hence the story theme is very strong in all the items and engages the audience from start to end of each story.”
The stories ranged from depictions of familiar scenes in the MRT, such as seat snatching to youths blasting music through their MP3 players, to treasure-hunting adventures of pirates and two Bombay princes feuding over a princess.
“I thought the Indian dance featuring a love story in Bombay was fascinating,” said Wong Zheng Hui, a 24-year-old student studying Computation Biology in NUS.
“The conflict presented in the story was intriguing and dance moves were well executed.”
Ng said that this year’s turnout was the biggest compared with the four different productions they have had so far. Ticket sales amounted to 1406, exceeding the projected target by around 200.
“I am grateful to the point of tears because all the students worked so hard for this,” Mr Loo said.
“Every piece is my favourite, and I think tonight they have demonstrated the spirit of NTU —the will to keep practising. I believe by keeping this ethic the dance team will go very far.”
Yo!
If case you haven’t heard, a few dancers from NRA will be coming down to guest teach for the month of April.
They will be using class time to conduct a 4 week long dance workshop.
So please extend a warm welcome to them to Saturday and don’t be late yah!
We must make good use of this opportunity and learn as much as we can from them.
Cheers!
Let’s give ourselves 2 thumbs up for Redeaf’s performance at the Association walkathon today!
I think what we did today will go a long way to make a lasting impression on everyone present.
Just to share the news with those who weren’t around, there was some discussion that was kick-started on:
1. performing for a ministerial event
2. getting our own dance room for training and personal development
Hopefully we will follow through with some of the plans so stay tuned….
A personal observation today:
It was very encouraging for me today to see everyone’s enthusiasm in trying to remember and dance all of the old performance items in the hot and humid hall when we were hanging out waiting for the crowd to disperse. I think we have really grown a lot and come a long way since. Let’s continue to enjoy our journey in dance together and bring Redeafination to greater heights, because we are a crew and that is what we do!
Dear Members
FIRSTLY, today the battle round of video (choosing people for videoing) is not meant to grade you. We just need you to watch and pick up certain things from the chosen dancers. As you can see, we will try to let you know your strengths and weakness individually whether or not you are chosen.
According to schedule previously posted on the schedule page, we have the following sessions left for this year.
13 Dec – CLASS AS USUAL – practise your steps!
20 Dec – NO CLASS – Please check out http://www.danzation.blogspot.com/ for Danzation concert.
27 Dec – Please let us know if you want class on this day. It’s post Xmas. You might be overseas or Xmas mood or whatever. So I need to know the possible attendance before declaring whether to go ahead with class. Jkoo is having overseas Xmas. It’s gonna be back to Nix’s class cue hell warmup.. so let me know via sms or leave a comment.
Lastly, we wanna welcome the 4 newcomers: Jie Zhi, Cuiting, Ling Hong and Kai! For your information, they are on a fund raising project with SADeaf which entails a series of campus concerts next year involving Redeaf.
Thks!
SEEYA ON 13TH.
CLASS RESUMES!
18 Oct 2008
Class starts at 745pm @ Danzpeople.
Please come early to revise and practise. We are opening studio at 7pm
We have been receiving requests for performances.
So we are planning to use class routines to put up an item for use of next performance.
But we need YOU to be READY before we start agreeing to take in shows.
Please work hard amongst yourselves.
If you are interested to perform please come early to learn the choreo from your fellow members if you have missed the classes previously.
UPCOMING CLASS SCHEDULE
Please refer to the right panel. We have added information for class schedule for next 2 months.
ATTENDANCE
You know we expect you! We do not need you to report everyweek whetehr you are coming or not like we required for rehearsals. But it would be nice if you let nix know if you are going to miss class for that particular week. Appreciate some of you like Jonathon, Rebecca & Fern have been informing nix in advance if they are gonna be absent.
Also if you have disappeared for a while and want to come back. Please inform too. This is to ease the planning of the class (what to teach) so that everyone benefits as well as admin matters.
thks!
~nix
Dear Redeafination Members,
To the performing members: HINA, GEETA, ANGELINE, FERN, LILY
& Guest Performers from Xtomic: JOCELYNN (YAY!) & ADELYNN
Appreciate all the hard work you all have put in. It was a great show. We had much positive feedback. Despite many hiccups & obstacles, we managed to pull off something that wowed everyone who saw the item.
To all beloved Redeaf members who came to support: DONNY REBECCA JONATHON DENNIS & NAZMI
thank you for showing love & support. Looking forward to the next performance to have everyone of you on stage. Let’s train hard! :]
Lastly, while the performers bask in glory, glamour & camera flashes, let’s not forget the one who persevere behind the scene. Thank you JKOO for keeping faith & trust in spite of everything. :]
I also regret to inform that our parent club Xtomic has faced a great loss as chairperson HUISHAN has stepped down as chairperson of Xtomic. From now on Redeafination will operate as a standalone performing club under SADeaf. Thank you HUISHAN for helping kickstart and manage the dance club thus far. :]
Personally, I hope that Redeafination will still be able to work with the wonderful and experienced song signers in future events to do song sign cum dance items. It is definitely a wonderful combination of 2 beautiful body languages in the expression of music.
Seeya at the next class. :]
~nix
Some pics to share (with permission from owner):
Dear Redeaf Members
Class As Usual
Class on 4 Oct 2008 as usual @ 745pm @Danz People
Club Fees
The next collection of club fees is Oct. Please make payment to Hina during class. Thanks!
For clarification on club membership fees please refer to this page
http://redeafination.wordpress.com/membership-details/
Seeya in class!
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