Terpsichore

### Members

Minōs, Apóllon, Ermís, Neméos, Áres, Thalía, Terpsichóri, Polýmnia, Melpoménē, Erató, Efˈterpi, Kleiṓ, Ouranía, Kalliopē

### Albums / Singles

Oh Ooh La La(Girls Unleashed) - Mini Album, I'll Be Waiting For You(Boy's Come To Play) - Mini Album

**Τερψιχόρη** (also stylized as **Terpsichore**;formerly known as HelloColour) is a primarily dance team based in **San Myshuno** some of the members used to teach dance in the basement of the Casbah Gallery. The members of Terpsichore have choreographed for Simdol artists in the past and continue to do so now even though they've signed to a company.

## History

### **2015: Starting Classes**

On July 22nd, Michelle Park(Erató) and Somchai Metharom(Ermis) rented out the basement space of the Casbah Gallery in the Art Quarter of San Myshuno. There they moved their classes from a storage locker into the larger basement space. With the bigger and safer space they started hosting more classes and recruited more dance instructors.

### **2017: Appearing on TV Shows and Stealing Scandal**

On March 12th, the dance teachers of HelloColour started to compete in dance competitions with a cash prize to raise funds for repairs and updates to their rented space. The first competition they participated in was San Myshuno's Got Talent where they placed 13th. On November 2nd, they gained fame on Dancing Town when another group performed one of their routines on stage during a live recording. Michelle Park informed the PA's of what happened and showed them a old recording of their dance routine, the group that stole their routine was removed from the competition and the leader of the group was banned from competitions in San Myshuno for 3 years and had to pay a fine of 150k[USD].

### **2017: Solo Releases and Fire at Casbah Gallery**

On June 14th, Michelle Park announced that some of the dance teachers would be releasing songs paying for everything themselves. She said that the other dance teachers and some of the students have been wanting to do more in terms of getting the dance studio more known so they could move to a better location. On Jun 23, Mi-Gyeong Platt known to teach vogue style dancing released the first single "You There?". She performed the song at festivals with student of the HelloColour dance studio acting as backup dancers.

On August 1st at 4:12am authorities rushed to the Casbah Gallery which at the time was fully engulfed in fire. Authorities were made aware of the fire when residents at the Medina Studios Apartment noticed a bright light outside their windows late that night. Residents said that Salim Benali was the one to call the police and that he ran over to the studio to make sure no one was inside but he didn't get to close instead he yelled from the street at a safe distance. Authorities confirmed that no one was inside at the time of the fire and thanked Benali for making sure that no one was alive inside. Fire investigators confirmed the source of the fire, an art exhibit was left on all night and heated up part of the exhibit catching it on fire quickly. The source of the fire was only confirmed when the 'black box' was found in the ruins.

On August 12th, Michelle Park announced that they would be looking for a new place to open up their studio and during the down time the dance teachers would be taking up part time jobs and teaching students at different public locations until they could find a new place.

### **2018: Group Album & OST's**

On January 15th, Matty Small, Jiang Li and Fei Hong revealed that they had been singing OST's for various Drama's to help earn money for a new studio but they only made so much for each OST. They revealed that they moved in together and into a smaller place to help save money and that any time they weren't singing OST's they spent teaching and working various odd jobs.

On April 28th, Michelle Park announced on her SulSul World that the girls and the boys would be getting together to release two albums. The girls would release one and the boys would release one that album would be payed for in whole by them and any money they earned would go towards finding a new studio. The songs on the album were all remixed covers of popular music, the purpose of this was so that the students could practice without them and the songs could be used at the clubs too.

### **2019: Signing with Mnemosyne Entertainment and Dance Team Changes**

On January 1st, 2019 Mnemosyne Entertainment announced they had signed the entirety of HelloColour dance team and would be combining them with their own dance team. The full details of the contract wasn't revealed but Michelee Park did state on her SulSul World that everyone from HelloColour agreed to the contract rules and that Mnemosyne's CEO met with them personally and made sure that they felt comfortable with the contract before having them sign it. She also said that in the end she would be stepping down as leader of the dance team and that her long time friend Chiyoko Fujioka would be the leader of the new dance team.

On March 5th, Mnemosyne Entertainment announced that the dance group would be continuing with their solo releases and that they would take on new names for their solo activities but still use their own names for the dance classes and when choreographing for other simdols. Mnemosyne Entertainment also said that since they were a dance team that their solo releases wouldn't be performed on music shows unless the person wanted it to be. They would instead be performing at music festivals and events like they did before.

> *The reason we wanted to sign the members of HelloColour was because of their self starter attitudes and how they give back to the community that helped them. They are good people that had a rough life so we wanted to help support them. Anything they want to do they are free to do. As long as they don't break any laws the dance team will keep its colour and the things that made it unique.*
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On March 14th, a representative from Mnemosyne Entertainment announced that the team name and the 'stage' names for the dance team would be revealed. The next day they revealed the group name to be **Τερψιχόρη** (Terpsichóri) the new leader of the team Chiyoko Fujioka was revealed to also have that name as her 'stage name'.

> *We thought long about if i should take on the team name or if I should take a different name. In the end we decided that i should take on the team name, as the leader i must show the best side of myself at all times and make sure the team never fails. Terpsichore means delight in dancing, as the leader of the team i will make sure we always take delight in what we do and that the people we teach will also take delight in what they do.*
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Sticking with the Greek theme Mnemosyne Entertainment is known for they revealed the other names for the dance team members. They also revealed how the members got to pick their own names and some their thoughts through out the whole process. They also revealed that all of the dance team members had been working hard on their solo releases and had the full support of the artists and song teams. They also said they were working around the members class schedules and personal schedules to get everything done for them.

## Discography

### Mini albums

* "Oh Ooh La La (Girls Unleashed)" (2018)
* "I'll Be Waiting For You (Boy's Come To Play)" (2018)

## Performances

* Magnolia Blossom Block Party - Willow Creek (2016)
* GeekCon - San Myshuno (2017)

## Choreographed

 Su Jin Oh
 Matty Small
 Matty Small
 Michelle Park