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Dance is now a subject on offer in Semester 1 for our Year 10 students.

Mrs Natalie Goodair says the inaugural cohort of students will develop their experiences in dance through participating in technique classes, composition and appreciation tasks.

“Students will explore dance styles and genre, including classical ballet, contemporary and Jazz technique, with performance-based dance assessments and composition tasks part of the program,” she explained.

“We’ll also develop an understanding around safe dance practice through analysis of skeletal structure and by exploring ideas around safeguarding the body.

“I look forward to continuing to guide our students on their dance journey at Mercedes throughout the Semester, with exciting performance opportunities on offer for students to showcase their work,” Mrs Goodair said.

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Shadow play 

As students of SACE Drama and IB Theatre, each will use this experience to reflect on themselves as emerging artists as they take inspiration from Slingsby’s key conventions and techniques to create their own pieces of theatre in the coming weeks.

Our Senior Drama students participated in a workshop run by Andy Packer, Artistic Director of Slingsby Theatre Company. An Adelaide based company, Slingsby has toured the world with their imaginative shows Emil and the Detectives, The Young King and this year bought to life This is Tree is a Story.

Students learnt about the company’s key techniques of storytelling through the use of narration, shadow play and miniaturisation, before experimenting with their own shadow puppets and narratives.

In groups, students workshopped short scenes and performed them for Andy who provided feedback about how they could continue to develop their work.