Digital @ The Arts Unit Creative Classes

Collaborating with Complicité

Teacher notes

Developing strategies for devising a digital group performance

Student drama resource developed by The Arts Unit

Years 11 and 12 drama

What will your students learn?

Your students will:

  • watch the three workshop clips

  • explore movement-based exercises independently

  • share their theatrical discoveries with their peers online

  • create an original piece of theatre by collaborating online with their peers.

Syllabus outcomes

Drama Stage 6 Syllabus

  • H1.3: uses knowledge and experience of dramatic and theatrical forms, styles and theories to inform and enhance individual and group-devised works.

  • H1.4: collaborates effectively to produce a group-devised performance.

  • H2.2: uses dramatic and theatrical elements effectively to engage an audience.

Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students

This resource is designed to support Year 11 and Year 12 drama students collaborating remotely or in small groups.

Students will watch, analyse and explore practical movement-based workshops, focusing on character, movement and transitions. They will use these ideas to devise a digital group performance.

This lesson can be used to facilitate school-based assessment of the HSC or Year 11 drama group performance.

Teachers could further adapt this lesson to assess student skills in collaboratively devising an original piece of theatre while working remotely.

Students could use video conferencing and shared documents in developing their collaborative work and use their devices to film individual dramatic moments which can be edited together to create a digital group performance.

Collection of student work

  • Google Form: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the Creative Class link and all your student responses will be combined in a Google sheet.

  • Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.

  • MS Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create.

  • Email: ask your students to email you any responses and files they create.

  • Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create 'grids' to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.

  • Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used for class feedback.

For further support on how to create these resources

Offline access

Download and print this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.

Collaborating with Complicite - The Arts Unit @home Creative Classes.docx

Would you like to promote your school and showcase your students' work as a result of engaging in this creative class?

Help us celebrate the fantastic work of NSW public school students by emailing photos or videos (that you have permission to share) and comments on how your students enjoyed the class to digital.artsunit@det.nsw.edu.au.

Please include the creative class title and your school name in the email so we can share it on The Arts Unit social media and our website.

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