PERFORMING ARTS
PROJECTS
for students
+ teachers
curriculum
based
Ant designs curriculum-integrated Performing Arts projects. These are tailor-made in collaboration With your staff and while ant Leads the Students are responsible for creating and taking ownership of the Work. Ant has a lot of experience in delivering and advising on funding and is always Interested in new ideas, no matter how early they are in your planning process. Great outcomes require good planning, so feel free to contact Ant for a chat about any projects you might be dreaming out. You’ll find some examples below.
suitable for foundation to year 6 + year 7 to year 10.
The Egg of Cosmic Light
The Egg
Of Cosmic
Light
Space Opera
Project
Reservoir Views Primary School / Artists in Schools Project / DEECD / Creative Victoria 2015
The Space Opera project is designed for up to fifty students from years 3 to 6 - and uses intergalactic overtones, evil villains, heroines, aliens and cosmic time travel to engage with the age group, encourage them to have fun and take risks – to enjoy playing characters and embrace the melodrama of opera.
Kids will use their voices to express the rhythm of words and play with vowels and consonants in imaginative, musical and evocative ways. The score still uses aria and recitative – but takes the emphasis away from melody – and allows the kids to make up their own melody – by stripping back the harmonic emphasis. It had specific rhythms – that the children help to devise – that allow them to speak the libretto ‘musically’ rather than having to sing it on a specific pitch. The students perform the final work using a mix of pre-recorded soundtrack (scape) and live music / percussion – performed in part by themselves.
The
Persistence
Project
Kurunjang Primary School / Artists in Schools Residency / DEECD / Creative Victoria 2014
A large scale shadow puppetry workshop designed create and perform a new theatre work by children aged 8 to 10. The theme of persistence is central to the creative process as well as the development of our emotional well-being. The fear of failure limits our ability to grow intellectually and philosophically and it prevents us from any meaningful spiritual development. To have persistence takes courage and effort. These are also the ingredients of a great fable.
“To get from one room to another you need a door; but doors are like mistakes; you can’t walk through one until you actually make one.”
Little
Red's
Murder
Mystery
A Director In Residence Project with Melbourne Girls Grammar School and their new initiative – Company M. Over twelve weeks a new cabaret/sideshow was devised in collaboration with MGGS students agree 11 to 14. Through-out the process the girls learned various skills including acting, singing, puppetry, theatre-making skills, circus and movement skills.
The
Dinjerra
Project
Kurunjang Primary School / Artists in Schools Residency / DEECD / Creative Victoria 2014. A theatre-arts project for children aged 5 to 9 developing a new theatre work using art, puppetry, clowning, movement, music and the spoken word.
My
Other Life
As A
Fish
Project design by Anthony Crowley / Junction Arts Festival 2014. A theatre project designed to create a fantastical performance, devised by children aged 8-12 - over five consecutive days. First presented by the grade 3/4 classes of Lilydale Primary School, My Other Life As A Fish – mixes large-scale puppetry, music, beat-boxing, poetry and art to create a joyful romp through the rich imagination and uninhibited world of children.