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Australian Ballet: primary school resources

Text Australian Ballet: primary school resources

TLF ID M020553

The Australian Ballet's EduHub provides a range of resources about ballet including information on past and present productions. This web page provides short synopses of the stories behind four classic ballets from past and present Australian Ballet seasons. The ballets include: Cinderella, COPPÉLIA, Swan Lake, and The Sleeping Beauty. Each story is supported by a gallery of photographs from the productions. The photographs illustrate the principal dancers and cast at key moments in the ballet. The resource is accompanied by a series of video-based classroom warm up activities. Each ballet includes a downloadable teacher resource kit that that collates its information and provides additional creative tasks ideas.

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Educational details

Educational value
  • This is a valuable resource for the responding and making strands of the dance curriculum. It is particularly relevant to the content descriptions that explore how dance and production elements express a narrative and convey meaning to an audience.
Year level

3; 4; 5; 6

Topics Torres Strait Islander art Aboriginal art Australian art Cultural imperialism Culture Dance Media arts Dancers Classical ballet Dance costume Movement sequences Storytelling Dance composition Themes (Texts) Cultural contexts Narratives Settings (Narratives) Dance genres
Learning area
  • The Arts
  • Dance

Other details

Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: The Australian Ballet
  • Organization: The Australian Ballet
  • URL: www.australianballet.com.au
  • Publisher
  • Name: The Australian Ballet
  • Organization: The Australian Ballet
  • Description: Publisher
  • URL: www.australianballet.com.au
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
Access profile
  • Unknown
Learning Resource Type
  • Text
  • Image
Rights
  • © 2016 The Australian Ballet. This material may be used in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 AU) licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-ncnd/ 3.0/au/.