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Technology allows East Bay talent to compete internationally
Uploaded: Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 10:46 pm
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Artistic director Khalia Davis and music director Angel Adedokun with students, hearing comments online from JTF Australia adjudicators. (Contributed photo)
Students in the advanced performers program of Bay Area Children s Theatre traveled virtually to this year s Junior Theatre Festival Australia.
The local participants sixth- to 12th-graders from Pleasanton, Livermore, San Ramon, Orinda, Berkeley, Oakland and Alameda learned their song and dance routines online, recorded their parts individually in their own homes, then competed long-distance. The students had to be much more self-directed and had to work with technology because we weren t all in the room together, BACT artistic director Khalia Davis said. And we had to lean into the Zoom medium to make the performance better.