Stage 5 & 6 Dance Incursion Program
Designed by Melanie Palomares with Dance Makers Collective
Thrive is Dance Makers Collective’s workshop program for high school students to gain further skills in performance and/or composition.
STAGE 5 & 6
This workshop program is designed as a series of 2 workshops tied to outcomes in the Stage 5 & 6 Dance Curriculum. Each workshop is approximately two hours in duration, tailored to your school timetable needs, and targeted for students who are studying Dance from Year 9 to Year 12, and for respective teachers delivering this course.
Teachers can opt for a full-day of workshops or participate in one of the two areas of Performance or Composition.
Year 9/10 Syllabus Outcomes Addressed
5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, 5.3.2
Year 11 Syllabus Outcomes Addressed
P1.1, P1.2, P1.3, P1.4, P2.1, P2.2, P2.3, P2.4, P2.5, P2.6
Year 12 Syllabus Outcomes Addressed
H1.1, H1.2, H1.3, H2.1, H2.2, H2.3
This Performance workshop will run for 2.5-3 hours (which can be tailored to each school’s start/finish times prior) with a scheduled short break.
In this workshop, students will participate in a technique-based dance class embedded with a range of body skills aligned with the syllabus. Emphasis will be placed on learning exercises which incorporate multitude of skills with varying complexity.
The second half of the workshop will focus more specifically on Kinaesthetic awareness and Temporal and Dynamic variation. Students will be facilitated through image-based exercises and experiential learning in order to develop their kinaesthetic awareness and apply this to their own Performance. They will also learn repertoire and explore first-hand, the temporal and dynamic variation within this choreography.
Students should gain a deeper understanding of how to apply these aspects of Performance to their own Performance works.
Sample Performance Workshop
Year 9/10 Syllabus Outcomes Addressed
5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.3.1, 5.3.2, 5.3.3
Year 11 Syllabus Outcomes Addressed
P1.1, P1.2, P1.3, P1.4, P3.1, P3.2, P3.3, P3.4, P3.5, P3.6, P3.7
Year 12 Syllabus Outcomes Addressed
H1.1, H1.2, H1.3, H3.1, H3.2, H3.3, H3.4
This Composition workshop will run for 2.5-3 hours (which can be tailored to each school’s start/finish times prior) with a scheduled short break.
In this workshop, students will participate in a series of Composition tasks which focus on the organisation of movement in relation to a chosen intent. Students will be facilitated through these tasks by learning choreography and then altering this material to generate new movement. Emphasis will be placed on qualities of movement (dynamics) and motif development into phrases and organisation of sequences.
Students should gain a deeper understanding of how to generate, organise and arrange movement in a more personalised way, and apply this to their own Composition works.
Sample of Composition Workshop
Dance Makers Collective acknowledge the Darug peoples, the traditional custodians of the land of Western Sydney, whose land we have the privilege to dance and work on. We acknowledge their survival and resilience, and pay respect to Darug Elders past, present and emerging, and recognise their continuing connection to the land, water and community for over 65,000 years.
