ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE, A SEASON OF BELONGING

The Kinkaid Visual and Performing Arts season is off to a rousing start!

By Scott Lambert, Director of Visual and Performing Arts

Starting our productions in October of 2022, Kinkaid’s Upper School theatre students performed the mainstage fall play, Ken Ludwig’s The Three Musketeers, with the large cast filling the stage in incredible costumes with an amazing set. Their hard work, even before the start of the school year, with a professional stage combat master helped to perfect their sword work and really showed as students soared in the production. Running simultaneously, the KinkADE Underground production of Cooking With Lard featured five actors playing 15 different roles in the hilarious study of a small Texas town and all of its inhabitants.

Our seventh grade choir became our first vocal ensemble to perform this year when they presented several songs at the Arts Parent Coffee and Conversation event. Vocal music followed that performance with the Concert Choir, Encore, and the 8th Grade Choir concert, Together We Sing, at the end of the month. Voices soared as the concert celebrated belonging and ensemble.

Kinkaid’s Band and Orchestra presented the annual Hauntcert with music from Sleepy Hollow, John Williams, and even the Mario Brothers Theme in the middle of October. The exciting end of the performance was the School’s re-introduction to the symphonic orchestra which had not had the opportunity to rehearse or perform together since the start of the pandemic, and it was a compelling performance.

Kinkaid Visual Arts opened the first major exhibit of the year this month as well. With 177 individual pieces displayed, the exhibition was diverse and exciting, featuring work from our photography, drawing and painting, printmaking and mixed media, graphic design, ceramics, and sculpture students. The talent displayed across this exhibit was impressive.

October also witnessed several of our film students receiving laurels for their works, including screenings at The All-American High School Film Festival as well as our Middle School film students premiering their “suspense movie trailers” at a Middle School assembly.

Just getting started, the month of November began with our fall dance concert featuring the Kinkaid Dance Company. Entitled Hooray for Hollywood, the concert featured music from well-known films including Flashdance, The Godfather, Footloose, and Halloween The concert also featured a Bollywood piece choreographed by Kinkaid Alum, Kavita Rao ’01

Children’s Theatre was next with their performance of How to Survive a Fairy Tale. This hilarious and heart-warming story was performed not just for our entire Lower School, but also toured to schools around Houston. Continuing to focus on the service-learning aspect of this course, the class followed each performance working with small groups of students to introduce them to the world of theatre. It was an impactful program for all involved.