This week’s
workshop involved us looking at dance through literary text, in particular ‘Henry
and Amy’ written by Stephen Michael King. This book looks at the idea of
opposites and Iris (our dance teacher) had taken out words from the text as a
stimulus for different dance activities that we needed to do. One activity
involved us to pick a word randomly out of an envelope. All the words in the envelope
have an opposite meaning to the word you would have picked up.
These words came
from the story book ‘Henry and Amy’. According to ACARA (2013), literacy is
found everywhere throughout the Creative Arts subject, where words from texts
and other forms of communication can be used as a stimulus to creating dance
and meaning (pg. 15). As pre-service teachers, we need to know that literacy is
linked to every KLA. That is why in classrooms students should be guided into
understanding the meaning of words so they can portray them at any time,
through any curriculum areas.
Reference:
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Authority Reporting
Authority. (2013). Revised Draft Australian Curriculum: The Arts Foundation to
Year 10 [PDF File]. Retrieved 30 June, 2014, from http://www.acara.edu.au/verve/_resources/Draft_Arts_Curriculum_22_February_2013.pdf
King, S. M. (1999). Henry
and Amy. Schoolastic Australia
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