Dance
Contemporary Dance and Workshop Experience
Tabled Manners
Grades:
4-6, 7-8, 9-12
Audience Maximum:
300
Price per performance:
$840 + gst
Tabled Manners is a fascinating contemporary dance work that merges with the theatrical. This piece explores the dynamic relationships between characters in a family gathering. The characters are family members who are grappling with various challenges: the search for individuality, love, integrity, compassion, expression, power, excitement, and acceptance. Struggles that many of us face on a daily basis, but in Tabled Manners they come out in a playful kinesthetic tour de force.
Express Dance Workshop
Grades:
4-6, 7-8, 9-12
Audience Maximum:
30 (one classroom)
Price per performance and workshop:
$1,290 + gst
Students get the unique opportunity to experience a full length presentation of Tabled Manners (see description above), and actively participate in an Express Dance Workshop. A trained Kaeja d’Dance dancer will provide students with the unique experience of creating movement within a structured and cooperative environment. The combination of experiencing both the performance and the workshop encourages students to create dance phrases from their own movement vocabulary.
- Presentations are adopted for the age and grade level of the audience.
Curriculum Focus & Expectations
Themes:
- Family dynamics: struggle for individuality and search for love and understanding within family relationships
Character Education:
- Responsibility, leadership, respect
Expectations:
- Compare what students experience through drama and dance presentations with their experience of daily life
- Distinguish between a variety of dance forms using specific criteria (music, steps, forms and positions)
- Describe students own and others' works using drama and dance vocabulary
- Explain the use of symbolism in dance works (props, costumes, specific movements and gestures)
Tour Availability:
- April 6-17, 2009
Technical Requirements:
- Large open area or stage (27' x 27')
- Minimum room temperature 25'c
- Request for gymnasium to be heated night before performance