• Body awareness • Coordination and gross motor skills• Fitness, strength and flexibility • Musicality• Discipline • Confidence• Problem solving • Imaginative thinking

• Creative decision making • Cooperation, collaboration & group skills • Analytical thinking • Perseverance, self-control & responsibility• Self-directed accomplishment • Ability to respond to constructive feedback• Enhanced non-verbal and verbal

communication

We offer the following services:

About

Research has proven that young people who participate in high-quality artistic programs perform better across all the other learning areas. They are more confident, more engaged and better equipped for academic achievement.

Why Dance?

Dance is a creative art form that uses the body as its medium. Young people who participate in creative dance experiences gain the following skills:

• One-off workshop incursions • 9 week incursion programs• Creative consultancy and/or choreographic

assistance for assemblies and productions (such as Wakakirri)

• Half or full year residencies

• After school dance programs• Professional learning for teachers:

– How to deliver the dance syllabus in your classroom.– Integrating dance into other learning areas

Rachael BottRachael has been performing, choreographing and teaching professionally for 15 years. Since completing a Bachelor of Arts (Dance) at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts she has been part of a diverse range of projects both in Australia and overseas. Her performance career includes works with Buzz Dance Theatre, Steamworks Arts Productions, Sue Peacock, Paea Leach, and Leigh Warren; performing in festivals such as Beijing Dance Festival, Shanghai International Arts Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Artrage (now known as Fringeworld), and Dancers are Space Eaters.

Since 2009 Rachael has been delivering a creative dance course to gifted and talented students as part of the PEAC (Primary Extension and Challenge) program offered by the Department of Education and Training in WA. In 2010 Rachael was also part of an artist-in-residency program with Buzz Dance Theatre and four Perth metro high schools, where students were guided through the process of making their own short dance films (short-listed for a West Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Regional/Community Dance).

Rachael has a passion for Education and the power it has in shaping minds, changing lives and making the world a better place.

Lanie MasonLanie is a dance theatre artist, performer

and teacher. She trained in classical ballet from four years of age, adding contemporary

dance from her teens and then completed her education at the Western Australian Academy

of Performing Arts in 1998. Lanie has performed, facilitated and taught workshops

for companies and choreographers including TasDance, Buzz Dance Theatre, Steps Youth Dance Company, Strut Dance Inc, Chordelia

Dance Theatre (Scotland), Chrissie Parrott, Danielle Micich, Graeme Murphy, Paul

Mecurio and Claudia Alessi.

Currently, she is part of the creative development of a new dance theatre work by Katrina Lazaroff – Artistic Director of the

Adelaide based company One Point 618. The full length work will be performed in Adelaide

in 2015.

Lanie is passionate about what creative arts in education can provide for young people.

She has spent the past 8 years working in school workshop environments and is

always delighted and excited by the creative capacities of students. There is no better way

for Lanie to spend her day than with vibrant, creative children; playing with them, helping

them to create and sharing with them her own arts practice.

We deliver fun, engaging and rewarding dance workshops that focus on the following areas:• Safe dance practises • Creative movement• Choreographic techniques• Performance• Responding to dance

We can tailor a program to suit your school/organisation in terms of timing, themes, outcomes and cost.

We can also provide classroom teachers with assessment guidelines and assistance in assessing students in order to ensure teachers are meeting their reporting requirements.

Why choose us?It is a requirement that all students study at least one performing arts subject from Pre-Primary through to the end of Year 8.

As a part of the Arts learning area, Dance must be taught utilising creative ‘child as artist’ process, where students make and respond to dance.

Our workshops DIRECTLY address the Dance syllabus in the Western Australian Arts Curriculum, guiding students through creative activities that ensure they are making their own creative choices as well as responding to their work and the work of their peers.

Most dance programs currently delivered in WA utilise an imitation based model; the teacher delivers a pre-choreographed routine which is rehearsed and performed at the end of the program. This is not how Dance is prescribed in the Western Australian Curriculum.

Teachers are often searching for ways to better engage students in subjects like Mathematics, which can sometimes be seen by students as boring or difficult.

Delivering maths outcomes through movement is one way to make maths fun and exciting; encouraging students to be more active as well as engaging their whole body in the learning.

Workshops for students:We have developed a program of workshops that deliver both the Maths and Dance syllabi concurrently, ensuring both learning areas are delivered with integrity.

The workshops enrich each student’s understanding of maths concepts via kinaesthetic learning and multisensory activation. They also give students an opportunity to make artistic, creative decisions with dance vocabulary and embodiment of ideas.

Maths Through Movement explores the following learning areas:

Workshops for teachers:We can provide high quality professional learning for teachers and support staff so they can expand their skills and increase the effectiveness of their professional teaching practise.

Participants are given practical ways to deliver movement based maths lessons for their own class. We aim to give generalist teachers the confidence to introduce movement into their teaching practise, even if they have no prior dance experience.

Participants receive a resource kit with sample activities as well as assessment guides and ideas for further exploration.

• Number & Place Value• Patterns & Algebra• Fractions & Decimals• Using Units of Measurement

• Shape• Location & Transformation• Chance• Data Representation & Interpretation

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For generalist teachers:Teachers who have never had any dance experience often assume they do not have the skills or ability to teach dance to their students. This is a myth based on a misunderstanding about dance as a subject and the way it should be taught to young people within an educational setting.

We can give generalist teachers the practical skills and resources to be able to deliver the Dance syllabus on their own, and to be able to integrate movement ideas into their other subject areas.

Movement can be a powerful tool for engaging young people in other learning areas such as Maths, English, Science and Humanities and Social Sciences; appealing to young people’s physicality and kinaesthetic learning style.

It is particularly useful for students who find desk-based learning difficult or find it arduous to sit still and concentrate.

We offer professional learning for both experienced dance teachers as well as generalist teachers with no prior dance experience.

Professional learning sessions can be targeted to particular year groups/bands, or offered to teachers across a range of ages.

For experienced dance teachers:We can give you fresh ideas for improvisation stimulus and choreographic tasks to take away with you and use in your school.

These can be based around:

• Pure movement ideas• Characterisation• Responding to abstract or literal stimulus• Communicating abstract ideas

engages young people in meaningful creative dance

experiences that allow them to explore and experiment with their

bodies in response to literal, abstract and figurative ideas.

Our dance workshops and programs directly address the

Western Australian Arts Curriculum as well as supporting and integrating

literacy and numeracy concepts.

Contact uscreativemoveswa.com.au

enquiries@creativemoveswa.com.auLanie Mason - 0402 046 363

Rachael Bott - 0417 937 764