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ALICE IN TUMBLELAND – A CIRCUS ADVENTURE
The imaginative students came up with the idea of and Alice in Wonderland themed show this year, so we proceeded to co-create Alice in Tumbleland; Curiouser and Circusier.
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HEAD OVER HEELS @ SWIFTS CREEK
Circus Week with Year 8s at Swifts Creek P12 School 2017 Monday: Joined by Luth Wolff from Solid State Circus, we begin with an introduction to all the skills we are going to be learning and cocreating with during the week. They are picking skills up pretty fast, and are surprisingly aware of their bodies for their age group. After warm up games and chatting about the storyline we will weave, we delve into tumbling, acrobalance, sliding table, hoops, staff, poi and movement. Excitement – 95%, Skill – 15% Tuesday: Today we begin creating patterns for each of the skills, so everyone has a basic choreography to come back to.…
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SCARY CLOWNS TAKE TO THE STAGE
I love co-creating with students, beginning with a seed of an idea, helping it to grow, nourish it with skillls and tools, and feed it until it unfurls like a lilly… well maybe not a lilly, more like a scaful of scary clowns; well that’s the theme that was requested so that’s what we did!! At one of our earlier bootcamps at Swifts Creek P12 School in November last year. Year 8s are fun. They have enough motor skills to do all the awesome technical things we teach, and enough playfulness to explore and create, and enough mind to bring their own ideas to the table. I was glad to…
