ACARA Dance Workshop (Step Right Up!)
Students in Year 7, and 8
ACARA Outreach Dance Workshop
QACI (Queensland Academies Creative Industries) is a selective-entry state high school for highly capable students in Years 10 - 12. As part of our Education Queensland Outreach program a limited opportunity for Year 7 & 8 dance students is available to participate in an ACARA curriculum-based workshop on Friday 7 August, 4pm (Term 3 Week 4) at QACI. The $20 workshop also includes dinner and two tickets (student and parent) to attend the Step Right Up! showcase taking place on Friday 7 August, 6:30pm. There is limited availability for this workshop and bookings are essential.
Students are invited to engage in a contemporary dance workshop exploring compositional skills, facilitated and led by Phluxus2Dance Collective Artist, Jacob Watton.
Jacob Watton is a Queensland-based choreographer, performer, and teaching artist based in Magandjin (Brisbane). Jacob holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in Dance Performance from the Queensland University of Technology and has built a dynamic career creating, performing, and educating across contemporary dance, children’s theatre, and cross-disciplinary performance.
ACARA Curriculum links:
Year 7 & 8
Analyse how choreographers use elements of dance and production elements to communicate intent (ACADAR018 - Scootle)
Workshop Itinerary
4pm – 5:30pm – Student Workshop in the QACI Theatre
5:30 – 6:15pm – Dinner (provided by QACI)
6:15 – 6:30pm – Go down to QACI theatre for Step Right Up!
6:30 – 8:00pm – Watch Step Right Up!
Bookings for this workshop close Thursday 6 August, 9am.
Please wear free moving comfortable clothing. Students will have time to change after the workshop and prior to the showcase.
If you are unable to attend the workshop and would like to reserve tickets to the Step Right Up! Dance Showcase, please reserve these complimentary tickets below.
Step Right Up! is made up of Year 10 Duet compositions, Year 11 Postmodern Groups and Year 12 Duets, with a special group work performed by Year 12s for their final show.
Throughout this term, the students worked with Ms Oliver and Ms Collyer to explore and create movement. They were allocated the theme of a Carnival, began establishing their own working processes and styles within movement. The outcome is dance works of varying intentions, which are student driven, showing creative and critical thinking, problem solving and reflection.
Join the QACI P&C in the foyer from 5.45pm for refreshments.
Friday 7 August, 6:30pm
QACI Theatre | Level 2, 61 Musk Avenue Kelvin Grove