Blacklight Performances

Blacklight productions provide students with the ability to represent the story and key non-human characters in Indigenous stories. Blacklight as a medium helps to prevent issues of cultural appropriation as characters are more focused on shapes and movement instead of using culture as a character. There is an important focus on the significant objects needed to tell the stories and students learned about the significance of the Trickster myth to provide cultural connections to their learning. This learning built upon the ideas of movement they learnt in tableau.

Blacklight Rubric Trickster performances

Drama Skills Learned

Technical Theatre- Puppet making

Movement- Dynamic movement, levels.

Speech- Projection, Articulation, Pacing, Character Expression

Collaboration

Rehearsal Behaviors


The following images are examples of Grade 7 students Blacklight Trickster performances. Students started learning with tableau and scaffolded in dynamic movement, by understanding what makes movement dynamic.