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Impermanence Sydney Dance Company and Australian String Quartet Impermanence Sydney Dance Company and Australian String Quartet EDUCATION RESOURCE Resource developed by Deanne Bullen 2021 Copyright protects this Education Resource. Except for purposes permitted by the Copyright Act, reproduction by whatever means is prohibited. However, limited photocopying for classroom use only is permitted by educational institutions. The content remains the property of Adelaide Festival Corporation, 2021. The Adelaide Festival Education Program is generously supported by The Lang Foundation & Thyne Reid Foundation 26 Feb - 14 Mar 2021 Contents Rundown of the show .......................................................................................... 1 Impermanence EDUCATION Themes .................................................................................................................. 2 RESOURCE Production .......................................................................................................... 2 Curriculum links ..................................................................................................... 3 CONTENTS Before the Show RUNDOWN & WARNINGS Theatre etiquette .................................................................................................. 5 THEMES, PRODUCTION & CURRICULUM Performance literacy .......................................................................................... 6 Thoughts and inspirations ................................................................................. 7 BEFORE THE SHOW The creative process ......................................................................................... 11 AFTER THE SHOW ABOUT THE COMPANY After the Show ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Writing a dance critique .......................................................................................... 17 Meet the company .................................................................................................. 19 Additional resources .................................................................................................. 24 26 Feb - 14 Mar 2021 Rundown of the show Impermanence EDUCATION RESOURCE 1 hour 5 minute show – no interval Frame of Mind was set to a striking string quartet by Bryce Dessner. A recent revival of Frame of Mind with live accompaniment prompted Bonachela to commission CONTENTS this new Dessner collaboration, Impermanence. The score for Impermanence draws inspiration from the RUNDOWN & WARNINGS tragic Australian bush and Notre-Dame Cathedral fires, and the work is imbued with beauty, radiance and hope in THEMES, PRODUCTION the face of devastation. & CURRICULUM BEFORE THE SHOW AFTER THE SHOW ABOUT THE COMPANY “The Company has an international, up- ADDITIONAL RESOURCES to-the-minute style. The sheer quality of the dancing continues to set the Sydney Dance Company apart.” Sydney Morning Herald Image: Pedro Greig Pedro Image: 1 26 Feb - 14 Mar 2021 Themes & production Themes Impermanence Key themes: Set and Costume Design EDUCATION • Juxtaposition of beauty • The set features a moving architectural element that frames RESOURCE and devastation and contextualises the movement • The impermanence and fragility of: • The costumes are in a palette of muted hues and soft earthy - human life tones, using both structures lines and draping fabricsw - the planet - human relationships CONTENTS • How easily things fall apart RUNDOWN & WARNINGS THEMES, PRODUCTION & CURRICULUM Production Style and Conventions BEFORE THE SHOW • Contemporary dance ensemble. Movement is developed The score for Impermanence draws inspiration AFTER THE SHOW in response to improvised and structured collaborative from the tragic Australian bush and Notre-Dame task work Cathedral fires. ABOUT THE COMPANY Music and Sound Reports of the fire and then the re-construction of ADDITIONAL RESOURCES • Bryce Dessner’s music composition Impermanence Notre Dame was commissioned by the Australian String Quartet and “Notre Dame is like a very strong lady — beautiful Sydney Dance Company lady — belonging to the world. She’s asking us, the world and our country, ‘what can you do for me • Bryce Dessners’ Impermanence and how fast can you repair me?’” score to feature Anohni www.abc.net.au • Academy-Award-nominated and Mercury-Prize-winner Anohni, formerly known as Antony Hegarty, the force “Ten days earlier, a fire had swept through its attic, behind the band Antony and the Johnsons, will feature in melted its roof, and sent its spire plunging like an the climax of Bryce Dessner’s new emotional score for arrow into the heart of the sacred space. Now, it Impermanence was silent but for the flutter of house sparrows.” www.sydneydancecompany.com www.sciencemag.org 2 26 Feb - 14 Mar 2021 Curriculum links This education resource has been developed with links to • extend their understanding and use of space, time, Impermanence the Australian Curriculum. Activities have been created to dynamics and relationships including performing in EDUCATION reflect each of the achievement standards, depending on groups, spatial relationships and using interaction to RESOURCE the year level, including content descriptions within each communicate their choreographic intention learning area and the general capabilities. The resource • extend technical skills from the previous band, increasing aims to provide teachers with information to help prepare their confidence, accuracy, clarity of movement and students before attending the performance, as well as projection. structured learning activities for the classroom after viewing the performance. CONTENTS General Capabilities – specific learning activities are linked Year 7 and 8 RUNDOWN & WARNINGS with the following icons: Content Description Combine elements of dance and improvise by THEMES, PRODUCTION • Literacy making literal movements into abstract movements & CURRICULUM ACADAM013 • Numeracy BEFORE THE SHOW Rehearse and perform focusing on expressive skills • Critical and creative thinking appropriate to style and/or choreographic intent AFTER THE SHOW ACADAM017 ABOUT THE COMPANY • Ethical understanding Analyse how choreographers use elements of dance and production elements to communicate intent ADDITIONAL RESOURCES • Personal and social capability ACADAR018 Achievement Standards Students choreograph dances, demonstrating THE ARTS - DANCE selection and organisation of the elements of dance, choreographic devices and form to communicate Year 7 and 8 Band Description choreographic intent. They choreograph and learn In Dance, students: dances, and perform them with confidence and clarity, • make and respond to dance independently and with their and with technical and expressive skills appropriate to classmates, teachers and communities the dance style. • explore dance as an art form through choreography, performance and appreciation 3 26 Feb - 14 Mar 2021 Curriculum links Year 9 and 10 Band Description Evaluate their own choreography and performance, and In Drama, students: that of others to inform and refine future work ACADAR025 Impermanence • extend their understanding and use space, time, Achievement Standards EDUCATION dynamics and relationships to expand their Students choreograph dances, demonstrating selection RESOURCE choreographic intentions and organisation of the elements of dance, choreographic • draw on dances from a range of cultures, times devices and form to communicate choreographic intent. and locations as they experience dance They choreograph and learn dances, and perform them with confidence and clarity, and with technical and • explore meaning and interpretation, forms and expressive skills appropriate to the dance style. elements, and social, cultural and historical contexts CONTENTS of dance as they make and respond to dance RUNDOWN & WARNINGS • evaluate dancers’ success in expressing the SACE Stage 2 Critical and Creative thinking choreographers’ intentions and the use of The resources are created • generating innovative ideas, THEMES, PRODUCTION expressive skills in dances they view and perform with links and in relation to the possibilities, and actions to & CURRICULUM communicate choreographic • understand that safe dance practices underlie all subject outlines. intent BEFORE THE SHOW experiences in the study of dance As students engage with dance practice and practitioners in • taking risks, considering • perform within their own body capabilities and diverse context, they develop alternatives, and AFTER THE SHOW work safely in groups. imaginative and innovative ways experimenting with movement and composition. ABOUT THE COMPANY to make meaning of the world. SACE Stage 1 and 2 – the resources are created Creating Dance ADDITIONAL RESOURCES with links and in relation to the subject outlines. Literacy CD2 Communication of • documenting their creative choreographic intent to an process, including use of audience through composition Year 9 and 10 analysis and evaluation or performance. Content Description strategies Improvise to find new movement possibilities and • using movement to express, Responding to Dance explore personal style by combining elements of communicate, and interpret RD1 Critique and evaluation dance ACADAM020 ideas and intent of the of a dance presentation, choreography performance, or choreographic Manipulate combinations of the elements of dance piece. and choreographic devices to communicate their • critically analysing and choreographic intent ACADAM021 evaluating their own work RD2 Analysis and synthesis and the work of others. of research findings to Structure dances using movement
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