Dance Society: Bloomsbury Producer

Hey, I’m Alkistis – a 2nd year Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience PhD student - and I’m running for Blooms Producer. This is my 7th year at UCL Dance Soc and over the years I have been involved in all shows – as a dancer and choreographer – and also helped product TranscenDance 2019. In the months leading up to TranscenDance my responsibilities mainly included liaising with other universities and managing all the communications between their societies and our team and finding the hosting venue. I was also in charge of securing a sponsor, and successfully secured UCL Dance Soc’s first paid sponsorship from BASE studios – a partnership we still have to this day. I am running for Blooms Producer as I believe I have a great understanding of show production (was on Prod teams of high school events with ~1500 students and staff), and excellent leadership and organisation skills (successfully have supervised over 25 interns, BSc and MSc students). Having been an active DanceSoc member for a long time I have acquired great insight into the ins-and-outs of this society, and it would be an honour to lead the production team of our Blooms show.   

Hi! I am Ziqian :) I've had a lot of fun this year dancing and choreographing for Blooms, and have seen the insane amount of hard work the Prod team put in to make the show happen. Seeing how it works makes me very excited at the thought of being able to produce such a big show myself, working with a team of people equally excited and invested in it to come up with and implement a cohesive vision. I have had a lot of experience directing and planning for dance shows of varying scales, and would be very happy to take on the challenge that is blooms. As an efficient worker, I am very directed, on task, and will work very hard to make sure everything goes well. Being a people-oriented person, I will also prioritise selecting a committed and tight knit production team that can work well together and creating a fun and motivating environment for everyone. I would really love to build on the incredible work done this year, gather feedback and suggestions from cast and audience alike, and work together with everyone to produce a remarkable show next year. I am very excited for blooms next year, and will be very happy to be able to serve as the next blooms producer :)