Week 14 - Dance

In the dance lecture we revisited the idea of defining dance and looked at some of the resources for dance that are currently out there.

- Sydney Dance Company, Walsh Bay - http://www.sydneydancecompany.com/

- Scootle  (Provides 8,000 digital curriculum resources from The Le@rning Federation. Teachers can    find interactive learning objects, images, audio files and movie clips) - http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/search?topic=%22Arts%22

- AUSDANCE - http://ausdance.org.au/

- Bangarra Dance Theatre - http://www.bangarra.com.au/

- Dance Educators Professional Association (DEPA) – 02 9886 7594- National

- Aboriginal and Islander Skill Development Association (NAISDA) - http://www.naisda.com.au/

- Quantum Leaps, NSW Department of Education and Training

- Cool Cates Resources, Bushfire Press

http://ausdance.org.au/articles/details/effective-dance-teaching-methods

In the workshop we further explored how stimuli can be used as a starting point or incentive for creating a dance. Stimuli can be classified into 5 groups: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile and ideational. The stimulus for my group was tactile. There was a spiky object concealed from us in a bag and we each had a turn at feeling the object without looking at i. From that initial contact we thought that maybe the object could be a giant seed pod perhaps. We made a dance entitled 'the spike of life' which consisted of us representing visually the shape of the object we had felt followed by the idea of a seed bursting from the pod in a fire and creating new growth. Other groups came up with great ideas including an ad for an airline company 'Ipenema Air - where half the fun is getting there'. We were all keen to find out what our object actually was and it turns out it wasn't a seed at all!