Dance Video
Students discuss framing and editing, plan camera angles for a dance shoot
Teaching Activities
Fad Diets
Students discuss fad diets and develop a fad diet report.
Family Traditions
Students consider family traditions and create a movement phrase based on action words.
Perfect Minutes
Students discuss a song that resonates with them; try to find a song that resonates for the class.
Roles in a Film Studio
Students look at roles on set and create a “postcard” of a set and bring it to life for 15 seconds.
Storyboarding
Students create a dance, photograph or draw it and arrange as a storyboard. Extension activity rearranging the elements.
Telling the Story
English skills practices in creating 1-line, 1-paragraph and 1-page synopses.
The Perfect Couple
Students discuss the ideals of the perfect couple, the pressures this puts on young people, consider their own ideals and write an ad for a dating agency.
The Plot
Students recount the story of Swan Lake in present tense in the style of a news broadcast. Extension activity to film the broadcast.
What is Perfection?
Students discuss perfection in Western Culture and create a collage of the perfect person.