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Take your students on a creative journey, as they explore, learn and apply their skills in the arts. Regardless of your existing skills and knowledge, ARTS:LIVE provides extensive cross-curricular resources and content, with sequential, easy to follow instructions to bring the arts to life in your classroom.

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  • 5 × 45 minute lessons

    School of Fish

    3-5 Year Olds, Years 1-4
    Follow these dance and drama activities to learn some exciting ways of exploring life as a school of fish. A school of fish moves together in exactly the same way at exactly the same time. Explore what it looks and feels like to be part of a fishy school as we go on an underwater adventure.
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  • 3 × 45 minute lessons

    Learn the Alphabet Dance

    Years 1-8, Secondary
    Alphabet Dance combines movement and chant, using your body in a percussive and rhythmic way. It can be performed in any style of dance and can include references to cultures, interests and experiences within the group. The dance requires you to create a series of movements that represents each letter of the alphabet, and then spell some simple words.
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  • 4 × 45 minute lessons

    Concrete Poetry

    Years 5-6
    How can the meaning of words be presented in a visual way? Examine the abstract nature of words and consider their concrete form. Reflect on several concrete poets' works and use the techniques you have learned to create your own concrete poem.
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  • 10 × 45 minute lessons

    Poetry and Drama

    Years 3-6
    Get excited about the world of language and the possibilities of sound. Poetry And Drama introduces the process of breaking down a poem for performance, and offers suggestions as to how you can explore the rich language in contemporary and traditional poems.
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  • 6 x 8 minute lessons

    Improvisation Starters Compilation

    Years 2-7, Secondary
    Learn the foundations of drama with these simple and effective improvisation techniques. Practice the skills required to become a performer and which form the basis for creating your own theatre shows and plays.
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  • 6 × 45 minute lessons

    Rap It Up

    Years 7-10, Secondary
    Explore the language and musical conventions of rap, and create your own rap. Discover the historical, social and political context and influences of hip hop culture and rap music. Identify the musical and poetic elements used in a range of rap pieces, and undertake the process of developing and performing your own rap at an ‘open mic’.
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  • 3 × 15 and 2 × 45 minute lessons

    Sing, Scat and Scoo Be Doo

    0-5 Year Olds, Years 1-4
    Sing, Scat and Scoo Be Doo introduces you to the joys of active music-making through singing, speaking, moving, dancing, playing and creating. You will be introduced to four songs that provide opportunities to be expressive through vocal improvisation (scatting) and playing along with instruments.
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  • 1 × 15 and 1 × 45 minute lessons

    Musical Fun with Fuzzy

    0-5 Year Olds, Years 1-2
    Musical Fun With Fuzzy introduces you to the joys of active music-making through singing, speaking, moving, dancing, playing and creating. You will make your own Fuzzy the Clown pop-up puppet and learn the basic elements of music.
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  • 5 × 45 minute lessons

    An Introduction to Hip Hop

    Years 5-10, Secondary
    An Introduction to Hip Hop provides the basis to start learning this contemporary and edgy dance. The history of the genre is examined to give context to the dance and to explain why the culture of the dance is so important to its evolution. This is the first of a series in which you will learn a wide range of movement skills and Hip Hop techniques so that you can eventually perform and devise your own choreography.
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  • 5 × 45 minute lessons

    A Hip Hop Routine

    Years 5-10, Secondary
    You are well on your way to becoming a free-styling Hip Hop dancer once you have learned the individual moves and how to combine them. Practising the routine is important in order to improve your memory and coordination, and it will provide a base for improvisation and eventually learning more complicated moves.
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  • 4 x 45 minute lessons

    Make Tracks

    Years 7-10, Secondary
    Discover perspectives on contemporary Indigenous dance from NAISDA Dance College developing artists and teachers. Watch them rehearse and perform, and use the experience as a springboard for your own dance-making.
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  • 4 x 45 minute lessons

    Create a Song Cycle

    Years 5-10, Secondary
    Go on a journey through landscape, guided by Indigenous choreographer Vicki Van Hout. Learn to use techniques such as tracking, mapping and locomotive steps, then bring it all together in your own song cycle.
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