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The following 3 resources can be used to support improvisation and choreographic processes with students in your classroom.
Wayne McGregor: A choreographer's creative process in real time
Wayne McGregor: A choreographer's creative process in real time
We all use our body on a daily basis, and yet few of us think about our physicality the way Wayne McGregor does.
In this video McGregor demonstrates how a choreographer communicates ideas to an audience, working with 2 dancers to build phrases of dance, live and unscripted, on the TEDGlobal stage
Wayne McGregor: A choreographer's creative process in real time | TED Talk
Duration: 15:02Improvisation with NDT
Improvisation with NDT
Explore improvisation by viewing and participating in this guided improvisation and task workshop with Netherlands Dance Theatre (NDT) dancdrs Luca Tessarini and Nicole Ishimaru.
Improvisation workshop by NDT dancers Luca Tessarini and Nicole Ishimaru
Duration: 18:55Contact Improvisation
Contact Improvisation
A great video to view and participate to explore basic exerices in contact improvisation with your students.
Contact Improvisation - A couple of basic exercises
Duration: 09:36Third-party content attributions
Third-party content attributions
State Dance Festival and Callback images 1-2, photographer: Anna Warr.
Dance 7-10 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2003, copied under s113P, accessed 27 September 2021.
Dance Stage 6 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2009, copied under s113P, accessed 27 September 2021.
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