Artes Escénicas 

Spectacular

Round 2 of Spectacular rehearsals continued on Tuesday 17th May. Our dancers attended Ivanhoe East for our hub rehearsals. There was dancing, collaboration and learning of new dance sequences. We have now learned ALL OF THE 6 SONGS from beginning to end! 

I have video links of the 6 songs which I have sent to the Spectacular Dancers via a group chat on Teams. Please message me directly if your child cannot access these.

IMPORTANT

Please send back the T-Shirt/Hoodies forms, indicating the size you wish your child to have for the t-shirts (compulsory). Payment is to be made to the Newlands School account please; t-shirts are $28. Hoodies are optional and are $40. 

Please ensure that these orders are placed by Monday 23rd May.

Upcoming rehearsal dates and venues are shown in an image below.

There will also be an extra two Dress rehearsals on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th September at the John Cain Arena, before the big show on Saturday September 10th!

If your child cannot attend the Spectacular show at the John Cain Arena on Saturday 10th September 2022, please let me know asap.

If you have any questions or concerns, please message me directly via Sentral.

Gracias!

Srta Laura :)

F/1

In Performing Arts, Dance has been the main focus in all lessons. We have incorporated the Inquiry topic for this term 'I like to move it, move it', focusing on Las Fuerzas (The Forces), such as formas, empuja, tira y bota (shapes, push, pull and bounce) in Spanish. 

Exploring movements such as 'Las Fuerzas' (The Forces) with our bodies was great. We began to use props succh as cintas y bufandas (ribbons and scarves) to explore movements and create shapes and dance sequences independently and collaboratively. 

2/3

Dance has been the main focus for Performing Arts this term. We have incorporated the Inquiry topic for this term, 'Mega motions', focusing on Las Fuerzas (The Forces), such as empuja, tira, atrae, repela, desliza, roda y bota (push, pull, attract, repel, slide, roll and bounce) in Spanish. 

We have enjoyed watching engaging performances which demonstrate movements and forces within dance choreography.  We collaborated in pairs to begin to create simple dance sequences of 8 beats, showing the forces in movements. We then joined another pair, to make a small group and cooperate in sharing our dance sequences and joining these to make a small choreography. We will be filming and sharing this choreography with the community on Seesaw.

4/5/6

The main focus in Performing Arts for this term, has been Dance. We have incorporated the Inquiry topic for this term, 'Flash and Transformers', focusing on Las Luces (The lights) such as Espejo/Reflejo (Mirror/Reflection), Sombra (Shadow), Luces de UV (UV Lights), Luces de LED (LED Lights) in Spanish. 

We were inspired by watching stimulating Dance performances from shows such as 'The X Factor, Birtain/America's got talent and so on. We were exploring the effects the different types of light had on the overall choreography and performance. We then worked on creating our dance sequences using the range of lights explored as a stimulus. 

We began with Espejo/reflejo (Mirror/Reflection). We created and developed creative dance sequences and mini choreography, representing a 'Mirror/Reflection' idea. We will continue to explore and create other dance sequences to show Sombra (Shadow) and Luces de UV/LED (UV/LED Lights). Check our our Espejo/Reflejo (Mirror/Reflection) videos on Seesaw!