The Woburn Dance Programme presents…
Monday December 10th, 2018
Welcome to our third Grade 8 Dance Day, an event that has been years in the making!
In coordination with the senior dance class at Woburn C.I., I would like to formally invite your grade 8 students to participate in a ½ day workshop, focusing on dance technique, collaboration and performance. We will be offering 5 different workshops that the students can choose from, which will involve:
Each workshop runs for 2 hours. The morning workshop begins at 9am and ends at 11am, the afternoon workshop begins at 12:30pm and ends at 2:30pm. Each workshop will run on the following schedule:
Event
Group Warm-up
Individual Workshops
Workshop Performance
AM Schedule
9:00 - 9:15
9:15 – 10:45
10:45 – 11:00
PM Schedule
12:30 - 12:45
12:45 – 2:15
2:15– 2:30
Within each workshop, the students will be taught set choreography in the style they have chosen. Each section is a collaboration of ideas created by the Grade 11 & 12 dancers and taught by them as well. While the workshops work perfectly as stand-alone events, it is our hope that both you and your students enjoy the experience so much that you will want to continue on to the final product, which is a performance of all the different workshop pieces put together into a whole dance. While the piece begins as individual performances for each different techniques, with groups of dancers moving on and off the performance space, it ends in a collaborative performance that includes everyone dancing together in coordination and performing the same choreography as one united team
The 5 workshops the students can choose from are:
You can get more detailed descriptions to share with your students here!
Additionally, these workshops are aimed at fulfilling curriculum expectations taken directly from the Grade 8 Ministry curriculum document covering Dance, specifically: A1.2, A1.3 & A3.2; with the ability to target A2.2 and A2.3 using a reflective writing piece after the workshop is completed.
To sign up for our Grade 8 Dance Day, just click on the Registration Form in the left menu.
You will be able to edit your form at any time after submission, so you can return at a later time to fill out the number of students who will be participating in each workshop (this info is due by December 6th)
I will also be arranging to have photos and videos taken to commemorate our collaborative workshops, which I will share with you. These photos and videos are also displayed on our web site here, so please ensure that all students have media release forms filled out.
Thank you for your interest and I look forward to dancing with you on December 12th!
Sincerely,
Christine Jankul-Tavchar
Dance Programme Coordinator
(416) 396-4575 ex.20140