Wednesday 11th of November 2015
Production unit
It is showtime!! :-)
Students are preparing for the December concert.
We are working hard on characters, voice and qualities of movement to be able to invite you to our Circus Fantastico on December 17th.
It is important to stay focused when creating and rehearsing and we must all try to be enthusiastic risk takers.
Tuesday 1st of December
Today we start rehearsing together-the whole circus and we will be focusing on concentration, respect and confidence in addition to characters and plot.
NEW INFORMATION REGARDING COSTUMES!
I would like all Circus directors and Liontamers in all black. Lions in brown, orange or black. Everyone else in white.
The most important is for students to be dressed in one colour, the same coloured and longsleeved bottom and top.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Wednesday 18th of November 2015
The students have been given their part in the Cirkus.
We are training qualities of movement, expression, voice and character. We are also focusing on independent commitment and focus.
We are so lucky that some parents are helping to create some costumes but I will ask that all students have :
plain clothes in all white (longsleeve and tights/leggings) underneath on the 15th and 17th of December.
These students should be all black:
Lara, Durga, Lavya, Mehak and Shubhi.
If your child has a tutu (white or pink ballerina skirt-
it would be great if they could lend it to one of our linedancers
-we need 6)
Monday 5th of October 2015
Students will work on physical movement and form to collaborate on creating different houses with different purposes in varying parts of the world. We will explore details and functions through improvisations. Our end task will be to create houses with a group.
Please make sure that you scroll down for weekly updates as this introduction to unit will always display on the top of the blog.
Friday 30th of October 2015
Students have started working on ideas for our next unit by improvising characters and situations in relations to our theme. We also keep creating houses and construction of these.
Monday 19th of October 2015
Students are constructing houses in different parts of the world and society. We are working on clarity and imagination through various exercises. Cooperation is a key concept.
Wednesday 14th of October 2015
Students are working on creativity and rhythm. We are creating Houses and things that we need in a house. They are also using sound and rhythm to create music together.
Wednesday 26th of August 2015
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| Collaboration is a key Learner Attitude and Change + Connection Key concepts |
We are starting the semester by repeating key elements such as levels, tempo, qualities of movement and clearity of expression. Students challenge their creativity and collaboration skills by creating statues and improvisation through our jungle setting.
We will start to explore rhythm and movement, formation in relationship to the students`unit work on the body.
Thursday 17th of September 2015
Students have worked on rhythm and collaboration. We have been exploring tempo and rhythm and qualities of movement through day and night jungle, statues and improvisation. Students will present their group work on creating a beating heart (movement and voice) in three different modes (red, yellow, blue).
Thursday 16th of April 2015
We are getting close to finishing our script "The Exciting Adventure". Our challenge is that we keep coming up with new exciting turns and we need to focus on bringing it all to an end. Hopefully we will do so in tomorrow`s lesson. Once we are finished, we will start working on characters and situations.
Tuesday 23rd of March 2015
Since we had the challenge of writing our own script anyway, and the children were working with Miss Ida on "Hakkebakkeskogen", we have improvised to brainstorm for a play, and we are now in the process of writing a script. The play is called "The exciting Adventure" and we are very excited to finish the script and to start working on characters and situations, after Easter.
Monday 2nd of March 2015
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| "Hakkebakkeskogen" This unit we will work on our PA skills from a different point of view. We will read scenes from "Hakkebakkeskogen" and write a script based on characters and situations from this well known Norwegian book. We will work on voice and character, as well as our reaction skills. |
Wednesday 28th of January 2015
They have been placed in Groups and were very enthusiastic when they started planning for a mini play/piece. They can present it in a movement piece, statues or a play.
Clearity is a criteria.
Looking forward to seeing the result :-)
Monday 13th of January 2015
IMPROVISATION and IMAGINATION are our main skills in focus this term. Making sure that we take what we have learned when it comes to movement and expression with us, when we start using voices and bodies to improvise.
Friday 14th of November 2014
Students are working on movement and voice to go with a toy of their choice. We are using this toy for an improvisation, working towards a performance.
Tuesday 28th of October 2014
Day and night city-improvisation
Students are preparing for a demonstration in assembly next monday. They will show an improvisation where the students collaborate on making the city and the characters in it. If students have found, and can demonstrate their physicality and expression, we might add a bit of text.
Wednesday 22nd of October 2014
Tuesday 14th of october
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| Day and night city-developing characters and constructions Students continue to develop their ideas for our production. We are developing the physicality of various characters and constructions in the city. Characters and story is developing through improvisation. |
Friday 10th of October
Here are some pictures from our friday lesson, where we started an improvisation on a city and its inhabitants. We will work our way towards a performance through improvisation and testing out our ideas connected to the topic.
Tuesday 7th of October 2014
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| Collaboration-creation |
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| Code statues |
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| Villages |
Tuesday 23rd of September 2014
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| Quality Cross-over |
Today students chose an exercise that they would like to put in their portfolio. They had to perform them and reflect on what they learn from this particular exercise. I love their enthusiasm :-)
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| Busy bees-levels-tempo-expression |
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| Robots-qualities-tempo |
Tuesday 16th of September 2014
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| Quality of movement-improvisation Students are improving their skills of quality of movement and working in a space. They are also becoming more confident when showing their work to each other. This is great to see, as showing our work to other people is a big part of PA :-) |
Tuesday 9th of September 2014
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| Movement choreography Students are working in groups on creating a movement piece, a choreography. The choreographies are being built on set actions and students are going to be playing with levels, qualities and tempo. We will show our performace to the others in our group next week :-) |
Tuesday 2nd of September 2014
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| Movement improvisation This week, we are focusing on the terms: qualities, levels and tempo, and we are using it to make movement improvisations. I also introduced the action board in our PA class room, which is a student lead board for implementing the IB attitudes in our lessons. Words such as: Respect, Tolerance, Creativity, Confidence, Enthusiasm and Empathy are part of these attitudes. |
Tuesday 26th of August 2014
This week we keep focusing on clarity, concentration and imagination. We are doing exercises to train rythm, spacial awareness as well as body awareness and movement.
We finished our lesson with a "Dream" where the students take a non physical journey in their imagination. We had a lovely reflection at the end regarding imagination.
You can ask the students to tell you, or show you, what these terms mean in the PA room:
Neutral
Busy Bees
Imagination
Welcome back! It was lovely to see my bunch and the new additions to the class. It came as no surprise to me that these guys would flourish in the PA room:-)
We talked about and defined the skills that we will focus on in our lessons and we agreed on our set of rules and expectations. (See the homepage of the blog)
Students proved to be caring risk takers when doing exersises on imagination, characters, voice and movement.
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