Drama Vic Top Picks - Best Resources
Often as Drama educators we are looking for that resource that influences our teaching practice. Drama Victoria receives many requests throughout the year about essential resources for teachers. These resources can come in many different forms, but often you come across a book that shapes your teaching practice or challenges your beliefs.
Teaching Dance to People with Special Needs
Ausdance Victoria, the state's peak body for dance, offers new, exciting,and in-depth Professional Development days for primary and secondary school dance and performing arts teachers. Teaching Dance to People with Special Needs will explore successful approaches to dance teaching and the drivers for the development of robust and reliable assessment for dance in schools.
Melbourne Playback Theatre Company- Thriving in Uncertainty
Melbourne Playback Theatre Company have joined with members of the applied improvisation network to present 'Thriving in Uncertainty', a conference for trainers and educators, leaders, executives and managers, consultants and anyone who wants to bring creative thinking and agility to their work or practice.
Postgraduate Program for Teaching Shakespeare
Learn new ways of teaching Shakespeare in your Drama or English classroom through innovative practices drawing on
theatre and drama education, and the study of literature.
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Unit 4 VCE Solo and Monologue Performance Examination CD
Following on from 2011, Drama Victoria is creating a resource kit to support teachers and students of VCE drama and VCE theatre studies. The resource kit will again be published as a CD to make it easier for drama teachers to find and store resources.
Following on from 2011, Drama Victoria is creating a resource kit to support teachers and students of VCE drama and VCE theatre studies. The resource kit will again be published as a CD to make it easier for drama teachers to find and store resources.
Follow this link to purchase your copy of either the Drama or Theatre Studies Resource CD:
http://www.dramavictoria.vic.edu.au/resources/unit-4-vce-performance-examination-cd
This year we aim to offer:
- A range of stimuli. Where possible, this will include print, images, links to video and film, online resources
- Aspects or an aspect of each dot point (in the solo structure) and some of the more tangential or imaginative potential of the task
- Resources that stimulate different ways of conceptualising that students (and perhaps new teachers) may not have considered but which could lead to highly theatrical choices
- Research that leads to ‘theatre-making’ and what will happen ‘on the floor’.
Where possible, we will aim to provide resources exploring
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theatre studies |
drama |
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The playwright looking at aspcts of biography, major works, influences, eg. Jean Anouilh, Timberlake Wertenbaker |
The main character to be played e.g. The Sheriff of Notingham |
| Social and historical context in which play was written, e.g. Anouilh’s Paris in 1944 during German occupation |
The main resource the structure is drawn from, i.e. novel, painting, historical event, e.g. Graphic Novel Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood |
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Synopsis of the plot of the play |
Audience e.g. PR manager – ways of representing |
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Theatrical style or styles of that time and their conventions |
Era or time frame references – the world of the character; imaginative/real |
| Previous productions and interpretations – providing some info about ways of interpreting |
A reference to an aspect of each dot point, e.g. the misinterpretation of instructions, the Sherriff of Nottingham being a popular good guy |
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Stagecraft – images of possible costume, set items and make-up choices |
Tangential references and possibilities for imaginative leaps |
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Iconic interpretations of the character |
