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Best Foot Forward
Produced by Footnote Dance
New Zealand music for teachers to use in the classroom and for dance composition workshops. Appropriate for all ages.
$28.75
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Dance!
Produced by Radha Sahar
This CD includes a wonderful variety of music especially composed for creative dance, and dance-drama. Everyone will welcome the high content of original New Zealand music and multicultural flavour of Dance. Includes content with special appeal to boys. The companion workbook for this CD is also available (in the books section below).
$42.00
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Danceabout
Collaboration between Jenny Cossey and composer Jonathan Besser
A wide variety of music from environmental sounds to tango. Each musical composition has 2 suggested Creative Dance lesson plans with learning outcomes. Appropriate for any age.
$43.75
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Junk to Funk
Angela Simmonds
This mostly instrumental CD covers a wide variety of genres and was compiled especially for use in school productions. The music tracks are great for staging any fashion/catwalk style show and compliment the 'Wearable Arts' phenomenon in Primary and Secondary schools. Is also a great accompaniment for teaching dance.
$34.00
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KoriKori
Produced by Radha Sahar
Movement songs in three languages; Maori, Samoan and English. Also instrumental versions of each song as karaoke tracks. There are 3 ways to use the music - Get fit and move with the music as it guides you, get creative and dance with the music and learn a new language by listening to all three versions.
$34.00
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New Zealand Music for Creative Dance
Selected by: Jenny Cossey
This compilation album promotes New Zealand music that is suitable for creative dance in schools. The tracks, from a variety of genre are suitable for warm up, dance activities, improvisation and for choreographed works.
$31.25
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New Zealand Music for Creative Dance Two
Selected by: Jenny Cossey
A compilation album promoting NZ music suitable for creative dance in schools. The music is from a variety of genre.
$31.25
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Peaks to Plains
Collaboration between Jenny Cossey and composer Michelle Scullion
Music that represents different environments from city to country. Excellent for creative work. Appropriate for all ages.
$27.50
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Spring Sound
Collaboration between Jenny Cossey and composer Michelle Scullion
A teaching resource that provides creative ways for students to gain practical knowledge about the elements of dance and music as defined by the Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum. A range of musical styles are presented. Appropriate for years 3-8.
$31.25
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50 Years on Their Toes
Royal New Zealand Ballet
A behind-the-scenes look at the Royal New Zealand Ballet in preparation for their 2003 production of Romeo and Juliet. Lots of cuts between rehearsal process and interviews with dancers. Would be good if looking at ballet as a dance style and how to put a ballet together. Appropriate for middle primary to yr 13. (45 min)
$30.00
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Beauty
Bronwyn Hayward
A compelling semi-autobiographical short film. A woman dreams of becoming a dancer but is told she cannot. Appropriate for years 9-13. (14 min)
$30.00
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Fly
Produced by Slater Films, Human Garden Productions & NZ Film Commission, Directed and Choreographed by Shona McCullagh
Winner 2002 Reeldance Awards, Peoples Choice Awards, Australia. A deaf boy is ready to soar - through the language of movement his father struggles to set him free. Directed and choreographed by Shona McCullagh. Most useful for years 10-13 but good for years 7-9 to watch. Accompanied by a written teachers resource. (5 min)
$30.00
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Open Door
Produced by Morningside Productions
Follow Touch Compass, New Zealand's first mixed ability dance group as they rehearse and perfect their work for the Taupo Arts Festival. A vibrant documentary of the process which created a moving work that excited audiences. Appropriate for middle primary to year 13.
$30.00
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Tutus and Town Halls
Produced by the Royal New Zealand Ballet
The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s road tour of
provincial New Zealand echoes their pioneering days with a hectic 47 night schedule in which dancers brave tiny stages, dodgy wiring and rickety town halls. Appropriate for years 9-13. (45 min)
$30.00
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Arc - A Dance Trilogy
Directed by Grant Lahood and Douglas Wright
A trilogy of solo dance works created and performed by acclaimed New Zealand choreographer Douglas Wright. In three distinct sections the film charts a transformation; a journey from a primeval landscape of despair, through a bizarre and hilarious confrontation with a talking bird to the emergence of 'Gravity's Angel' in a space of air and delight. Suitable for senior students only. (22 min)
$59.00
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Beauty
Bronwyn Hayward
A compelling semi-autobiographical short film. A woman dreams of becoming a dancer but is told she cannot. Appropriate for years 9-13. (14 min)
$60.00
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Fly
Produced by Slater Films, Human Garden Productions & NZ Film Commission, Directed and Choreographed by Shona McCullagh
Winner 2002 Reeldance Awards, Peoples Choice Awards, Australia. A deaf boy is ready to soar - through the language of movement his father struggles to set him free. Directed and choreographed by Shona McCullagh. Most useful for years 10-13 but good for years 7-9 to watch. Accompanied by a written teachers resource. (5 min)
$75.00
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Haunting Douglas
Produced by Leanne Pooley and Shona McCullagh
Award winning documentary about Douglas Wright - choreographer, dancer, artist. From Tuakau, New Zealand to the stages of New York, Haunting Douglas is a portrait of a great artist and features excerpts from his extraordinary body of work. "Profoundly moving...the film pulls together many threads to help us understand and appreciate this dancemaker at work" Jennifer Shennan, Dominion Post. Classified M - Suitable for Mature Audiences 16 years and over. It is strongly recommended teachers view the fim in advance of screening for students. (75min) Available for purchase by schools only
$40.00
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Jean, The Ballet
Mary Jane O'Reilly / Royal New Zealand Ballet
Choreographed by Mary Jane O'Reilly to a score by Jonathan Besser, this ballet celebrates the life of pioneering aviatrix Jean Batten. Jean was commissioned by the Royal New Zealand Ballet to mark New Zealand's Sesquicentennial in 1990. This resource includes footage of the ballet plus teachers resource by the choreographer. Could be used for years 5-13 if studying dance/ballet.
$90.00
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Move It
Anita Hutchins
A warm up, dance class, several choreographies and a warm down taught by Anita Hutchins, Winner of 'So You Think You Can Dance' TV show. This interactive DVD of exercises and sequences provides a starting point or inspiration for movement based activities in schools. Appropriate for year 9-13.
$67.50
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Poi/Canopy
Produced by Mary Jane O'Reilly and Murray Ball
A videodance resource specially designed for schools in relation to the four strands of the dance curriculum. Choreographer Mary Jane O'Reilly has combined her Limbs era dancework 'Poi'(1983 - 16 mins) and the edited film version 'Canopy'(2001 - 6 mins) with background information about the structure of the dance, inspiration for the choreography, lighting and costume design and the specially commissioned score by NZ composer Jack Body. The material is readily accessible for levels 9-13, but could be used for younger students with teacher assistance. (22 min)
$75.00
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Creative Dance in New Zealand Primary Schools
Authors: Jan Bolwell, Jenny Cossey, and Liz Melchior
This handbook is an introductory resource for primary teachers teaching creative dance as part of their classroom programme. It suggests a specific approach, focussing on the child as the performer, the creator and the viewer of dance in structuring a well balanced dance curriculum.
$37.50
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Dance for Senior Students
Barbara Snook
A comprehensive text suitable for New Zealand senior dance curriculum. Covers dance history; ritual, social and cultural dance; contemporary and postmodern perspectives and a wide and varied range of dance works. With a focus on dance appreciation and choreography, Dance for Senior Students includes a wealth of exercises, activities and assessment tasks.
$50.00
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Dance! Teacher's Guide
The Dance Teacher's Guide contains a wealth of ideas generously contributed by dance educators around New Zealand. It was written to support school teachers in implementing the New Zealand Arts Curriculum, as well as studio dance teachers working in the community. The companion CD to this book is also available (see the music section above).
$58.00
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DANCE...Count Me In!
Barbara Snook
A teaching resource written in Australia but easily adapted for New Zealand schools. Includes Elements of Dance, Ritual Dance, Pioneers of Contemporary Dance, Youth Culture, Social and Community Dance, Dance on Screen, Dance Production and Dance companies of Australia and New Zealand. Suitable for years 6 - 10.
$45.95
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Touch Compass
Michele Powles
Celebrating Integrated Dance - Professional New Zealand dance company Touch Compass Dance Trust works with a wide range of dancers, with and without a physical and/or intellectual disability. This is the illustrated story of their professional performance, education work and international tours in their first ten years becoming recognised as a leader in aerial integrated dance.
$35.00
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