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From Choreography to Classroom
Footnote Dance continues to make touring New Zealand schools part of their wonderful outreach and youth initiative. Led by New Zealand dance icon, Deirdre Tarrant, who has spent many years working in schools and will devise the programme that works best for your school, the dancers of the company are wonderful role models and enjoy working with young people. Your students have the opportunity to meet real dancers who come to your school as part of their professional day!
Specializing and working with students who are studying dance, and schools with strong performing arts programmes, Footnote Dance offers two options: both are designed to develop excellence and to facilitate strength in the student’s technical base and composition for performance. Smaller numbers working at a more specialized level make the best possible use of the professional expertise and passion for dance that Footnote offers.
The touring choreographies of our Made in New Zealand repertoire provide the context and starting point for workshops that focus on performance, repertoire and composition. Footnote Dance commissions and presents new New Zealand choreographic works to New Zealand music every year. Young audiences see dance that is absolutely ‘of the moment’. Choreographers for 2009 include Deirdre Tarrant, Malia Johnston, Michael Parmenter, Raewyn Hill, Sarah Foster, Katie Burton and company dancer Jesse Wikiriwhi. Tarrant believes children are the future and are the developing artists and audiences of every culture. ‘The magic is in their response and imagination as they share the energy and excitement of dance’. We are constantly looking at ways to align bookings with our new programme objectives and innovative ways to maintain our youth audience and school connections. These include partnerships with the City Gallery Wellington and Capital E National Theatre for Children as well as an emphasis on senior students coming to special performances in the theatre as part of our Masterclass programme.
The Footnote Dance options at your school are available for all classes from yr. 1-13 and the content will alter according to the level of the students:
School workshop packages
A
Money Works
Interactive Dance Performance (Years 1 - 8 )
“Where does it come from?” “Where does it go?” - Children today need to understand how money works and actions of the world today as they become the decision makers oof tomorrow. Money Works is an interactive dance work for the now generation of young kiwis, with a focus on the self responsibility to live in a fast paced and changing world.
Key focus will be on:
- Saving - at home and at school.
- Economic Spending - best buy / real cost
- Budgets - making a plan
1 hour performance & workshop
Cost $525.00 inc GST
B
Footnote Residency (Years 1-13) Coming to your school and staying a while
1-4 days spent in one school providing a timetable of classes for a range of students, as determined by the school. Stimuli and concepts can be related to the Dance Curriculum or be initiated from other school subjects but Footnote Dance will work from kinetic stimuli and use movement to explore and inform ideas. The residency programme has a focus on making a dance result that can be shared with other students in a show and share atmosphere. Community events and festivals are places where the results of a residency project can be used.
1 – 5 days
4 – 5 sessions per day are recommended (depending on school’s timetable) with students having more than one session per visit (max 30 students per session).
Cost $720.00 inc GST per day
C
Footnote Ambassadors for Dance (Years 7 – 13)
Dance Performance
A 45 - 50 minute performance programme of New Zealand repertoire and music from our 2010 Made in New Zealand repertoire. Choreographies feature current New Zealand choreographers with New Zealand music as a key feature of their commissions. In 2010 a selection of works by Deirdre Tarrant, Malia Johnston, Michael Parmenter, Sarah Foster and Ross McCormack will be used. As it is often a first experience of the different performance medium of contemporary dance for many students, each dance is introduced to give some background to the work and there is a chance to hear a little about each of the dancer’s own background and to ask questions as well. The printed programme is available on request to give written material and the website can also be used to provide information for student projects and queries developing from a Footnote visit. (Please visit http://www.footnote.org.nz/education/q-and-a/ for more information about the Made in New Zealand programme)
45 – 50 minutes
Cost $680.00 inc GST
Requirements:
Performance area must be a clean wooden floor space or a stage of at least 12m x 12m with lights.
A good sound system (CD & cassette).
Hand held microphone.
Dressing room nearby.
Heating is really appreciated!! Lighting is a bonus!
