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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’. Current choreographers include Malia Johnson, Deirdre Tarrant, Sarah Foster, Merenia Grey and company dancers Sarah Knox and Hannah Elks. 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 Vector Wellington Orchestra 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
Have a Go – Dance!
Footnote Combo (Years 1 – 13)
With New Zealand music and choreography, this is an interactive programme including observation and participation that stimulates the imagination and opens possibilities to understand and explore the concepts of space, time, energy and shape. The performance is introduced to give some background to the work and there is a chance to hear a little about each of the dancers own background and to ask questions as well.
½ hour performance
Plus
1 x 1½ hour workshop (max 30 students)
Or
½ hour performance
Plus
2 x 45min workshops (max 30 students per session)
Cost $450.00 inc GST (*Performance for up to 100 students, greater numbers can attend the performance at $1.00 incl GST for each extra student.)
B
DanceMakers – create it!
Footnote Residency (Years 1-13)
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 – 4 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 $675.00 inc GST per day
C
Watch it!
Footnote Dance Performance (Years 7 – 13)
45 – 50 minute performance programme of New Zealand repertoire and music from our Made in New Zealand repertoire. Choreographies feature current New Zealand choreographers with New Zealand music as a key feature of their commissions. Current choreographers include Malia Johnson, Deirdre Tarrant, Sarah Foster, Merenia Grey and company dancers Sarah Knox and Hannah Elks. 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 programme is available on request to give written material and the website can also be used to provide information.
45 – 50 minutes
Cost $630.00 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!
TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
Footnote Dance is a leading education resource. Well established, they are welcomed from North Cape to Bluff. As part of the ongoing planning for the company, and as dance has moved into the curriculum Footnote Dance has responded to demand from teachers ‘out there’ in schools who want professional development for themselves.
Teachers’ Professional Development Workshops are offered independently of a Footnote Dance visit although best scheduled when the company is visiting your part of New Zealand!. Devised and led by Deirdre Tarrant herself, they are designed to support teachers who are actively implementing dance in their own school programme. They can also be an excellent activity to give all staff an opportunity to discuss kinetic and visual learning particularly as dance takes its place in cultural classroom studies.
Joining teachers together from different schools and different subjects strengthens a Footnote Dance Teachers’ Professional Development Workshop. This is fun, informative and will help build confidence and re-charge the batteries of movement exploration.
The three-hour workshop takes teachers through a programme of both skills and creative based ideas. Explanations and ideas to develop class plans are also given. Footnote Founder and Director Deirdre Tarrant, has over twenty years extensive experience in both schools and in the professional field of dance performance. These workshops are participatory and provide a chance to discuss and develop movement ideas and to experience making and showing dance results.
Every student is an individual, every class a different combination, every movement experience is new, every teacher deals with differing objectives and responses – Footnote Dance Teachers’ Professional Development Workshops look at helping the ‘Teacher’ in the role of exploring horizons, the very real benefits of kinetic learning, problem solving, self esteem and confidence, facilitating experiments and moving onwards…DANCE
A resource programme to support these workshops with class notes and material is available on our website.
Download Teachers’ Resource Kit
105kb.
Cost $650.00 including GST for up to ten teachers.
There will be a charge of $60.00 including GST for each additional teacher.
