Year 10 Visual Arts students sketched the Year 10 Dance students in real time.
Year 10 Dance and Visual Arts students recently participated in a collaborative learning experience that explored the human form and movement through both dance and drawing.
During Term 1, students from Mrs T. Flynn’s Year 10 Dance class and Mrs E. Langbein-Pass’s Year 10 Visual Arts class came together for a unique collaborative learning experience exploring the human form and movement through both dance and drawing.
As the dancers rehearsed and performed their sequences, the Visual Arts students sketched in real time, capturing movement, posture and expression. The activity allowed students to see how two creative disciplines can intersect, with dancers becoming live subjects for the artists’ work.
“The collaboration with the art students was a really inspiring and eye-opening experience. It allowed us to reflect on our movements and improve our performance because we had the added pressure of an audience. The artists drew us in real time, capturing positions and movements as we practised and performed our sequences. It was interesting to see how two different art forms can come together and it taught us about the importance of performance and control in ballet.”
Lily H. Year 10 student
We look forward to seeing the final outcomes of this inclusive, creative and higher-order collaboration between both CAPA (Creative and Performing Arts) classes.
Talitha Flynn, Dance Teacher, Edith Langbein-Pass, Visual Arts Teacher and Lily. H, Year 10 Dance Student
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