Results tagged “Dance” from Culture & Creativity

Fellside Community Primary School has used the Cultural Ambassadors' Grant to work with The Bare Toed Dance Company. Here Cultural Ambassador Jane Armstrong, and her colleague Sarah Balkwell describe the project:

The Arts Team at our school had recognised that CPD in dance had been non-existent for a few years were keen to embrace new developments and ways to approach dance in our newly emerging Creative Curriculum. Favourable recommendations identified The Bare Toed Dance Company as a possible creative partner. A grant was sought, additional funds were raised through the school fayre, and Jo Temperly was contacted. Several e-mails were sent and a framework for the workshop emerged.

 

Key Stage One were working on a topic called Fire! Fire! So the workshop was based on the movement of flames and the events of The Great Fire of Gateshead. Jo bought with her some fabulous resources - flame coloured chiffon scarves were used as emerging flickering, dancing flames that grew in the raging winds and finally died down into slow moving embers. Sheets of lycra were used to create shapes emerging from burning buildings, movements to suggest frantic and controlled rescues were developed and a story in dance was slowly built up.

 

 As teachers we were keen to look how resources were used and incorporated into dance sessions to stimulate ideas and help illustrate them and we took away with us a recognition that in school such collection of resources should be developed beyond our much used 'parachute'.

 

The North East Youth Dance Network aspires to create opportunities for young people to access high quality, meaningful dance activity in your local area.

Bare Toed Dance Company specialise in movement play and dance with the Early Years and primary school children. They have recently delivered a series of stimulating and inspiring workshops at Brandling Primary School as part of their Creative Partnerships project.

Pictured is the transport themed session for 3 - 5 year olds. Children enjoyed working with scarves and silk, whilst exploring various modes of transport to reinforce their class topic. There was a smile on every face for the duration of the session, which was well paced and structured, and ended with a relaxing meditation session. Sessions for older children were based on Romans and Ancient Egypt; Bare Toed can adapt sessions to any classroom topic.

Other Cultural Partners offering dance and movement based workshops include Dance City, DanceArtPlay, Melting Pot Arts and Gem Arts . For more details please see your Directory of Cultural Partners. You can also log into the Ambassadors Area of this website to chat to other Ambassadors about which Partners they recommend.

2 practical and FREE workshops for KS2 teachers

at Ravenswood Primary School

on Thursdays 14th and 21st May - both 4-5pm

You can learn:

Bollywood dancing
Indian song
Cyclical patterns
Instrumental 'voices'
Gujarati stick dancing

and you get a FREE CD-rom on completion

Led by Janet Longbottom, AST for Creativity and Culture, Newcastle

Places are limited, TO BOOK - please return the completed attached form (through the courier) to Janet Longbottom, Ravenswood Primary School,
or email janet.longbottom@ravenswood.newcastle.sch.uk or caroline.pearce@newcastle.gov.uk

8th - 14th June 2009: YoungPerformerWeek.com

SECRETS TO SUCCESS ON THE STAGE FOR YOUNG PERFORMERS

Male and female dancers aged 11+ are invited to join a youth Rapper Sword Dance Team, which will perform at festivals and events.

The North East has a unique tradition of Rapper Sword Dancing. It was part of the heritage and legacy of the mining culture and has survived generations and pit closures because it is exciting, fast, skilled and a little bit dangerous! There are many adult teams still in the North East and also around the country and there is a widening interest in traditional dancing as an art form.

 

www.northeastdance.co.uk