Be Academy, partner of the Columbus School, prepares all year to create one of the most difficult project a dance academy can pull off: a performance.

During the past eight years, Mariana Tobon sits in her office in mid November to create her biggest event and master piece: their final presentation.  The purpose of this performance is to show the growth and talent of each of her dance students throughout the year. This 14th of December, Oceanica the latest creation by Be Academy, rises to the doors of El Teatro de la Universidad de Medellín. Even though following process is extensive and exhausting, Tobon anxiously believes it will  leave us with a mesmerizing show. 

“I believe the most difficult part of creating this, besides learning to manage stress and anxiety, is to put everything you’ve thought under paper and make it a reality. This is because, not always my crazy ideas will end up working or will adapt with our tools of work, so I have to find a way to adapt it without deviating from the objective. Once you have that, the process is still challenging, but it is easier to manage,” said Tobon

As Tobon said above, once you have your ideas and how will you accomplish them in the bigger perspective, everything facilitates, but now comes the part where Tobon explains the objective to her staff and leaves it in the hands of the talent of her team.

“I’m not going to lie, it’s a stressful and very complicated process, but it’s not impossible. As a choreographer of several groups I feel that the most difficult thing is to connect all the groups in the same tuning and idea we want to transmit; join them to dance as a team and not as each individual,” said Sara Sierra, teacher and choreographer in Be Academy Tesoro and Be Academy Columbus

Despite the fact that the creation of this event is a time consumer, it will forever be the greatest show in the year for every dancer, teacher, worker and director in Be Academy. It is the place in which all of the improvement, new things learned and talent exploits at its maximum.

“There is no greater satisfaction that stepping on in a stage and perform what we dancers love the most. In that split second, every drop of sweat, every tear of fatigue and anxiety will all be worth it. As they say out there, Hard work pays off,” said Sierra.