Creative Contemporary Workshop

On Friday 3rd May, Sydney Dance Company visited our Magdalene community and ran a Creative Contemporary workshop with our Year 9 Dance Elective students. It was a unique opportunity to experience how the company creates and performs new and original movements. Dancers were guided through a contemporary technique warm up, learnt repertoire from a work called ab [intra] and completed two compositional tasks.

Students were challenged throughout the incursion and it allowed them to step out of their comfort zones and to experiment with different movements instead of always reaching for known and comfortable ones. The students will be focusing on composition for the remainder of the term.

In the classroom

Our Term 2 unit focuses on stimulus, the starting point for movement discovery in dance composition. Students are provided with opportunities to explore a variety of stimuli to generate original movement, including auditory, visual, tactile, kinaesthetic or ideational. Students will brainstorm, identify and discuss different stimuli for dance, and will develop concepts and ideas from specific stimuli. Classroom activities centre on the processes of exploring, reflecting, evaluating and selecting appropriate movement material based on ideas.

Students revisited Space, Time and Dynamics through a competitive card game activity and have also started to explore how they can create movement in relation to a specific stimulus. Year 9 will be receiving their assessment task in the coming weeks which will allow them to create a dance work to convey an idea based on stimuli. Students have been having some fun creating new movements and will continue to be challenged in the dance studio.

Thank you,

Miss Tahlia Cupillari 

Dance Teacher