SOMETIMES FILMING at Gateway Academy is like filming one long tracking sequence, where everything happens seamlessly.
We have a formal film of the open evening to come up but here is a “show-stopping” rendition of “Mercy” by the students.
They performed it in the corridor and had a sort of “flash-mob” feel that crystallises the feel of the school. A unique spirit.
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The choice of song could have benifited from a more ingenious choreography of the emotion being shared : i.e. Duffy explains it as a cry for release from invisible chains which prevent our real ‘LIBERTY’ – freedom of expression etc.(her vision of it). In that respect I feel the Students deserved better format in movement composition to help convey that. This format was almost predictable Arlene Phillips standards of the old Top of the Pops regime – stunted in a sense. I applaud the Students however – they sang the song excellently – with passion and flowing harmony and are a credit to local Culture and their Academy. So a sincere : well done ALL for that.