Resources

DANZ (Dance Aotearoa New Zealand) offer a range of Learning Experiences Outside of the Classroom dance workshops in various genres and styles for a minimal fee.

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Te Kete Ipurangi contains teaching resources for use in primary and secondary schools.

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Arts Online is an online resource for teachers of Dance. It contains forums for discussions, questions and answers, and links to other resources. You can also sign up to be part of the national online community at Dancenet or Primarynet where you can ask and answer questions.

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Teachers can share ideas and resources through The Teacher Resource Exchange. It contains a wide range of valuable dance resources, activities and units of work, which are free to all teachers.

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The Royal New Zealand Ballet offer schools accessible educational resources such as creative dance workshops, teacher’s resources for primary and secondary (including NCEA resources such as Milagros and The Anatomy of a Passing Cloud), workshops based on a RNZB work, LEARNZ virtual field trip and school performances.

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The New Zealand Dance Company has developed an NCEA resource for their Trees, Birds then People work.

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Touch Compass have published an excellent new NCEA resource called Run.

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Atamira offer a free schools programme as an LEOTC dance project.

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The Dance to Learn website advertises great hands-on resources to support dance learning in both primary and secondary schools. The primary resources in particular focus on connecting dance with literacy and numeracy. This video on the Teaching Channel website also exemplifies ways into developing literacy through dance.

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If you are looking for ways to use digital devices for dance learning, take a look at apps such as Coach Eye to evaluate movement performance. The Temple Dance Project may be interesting as a starter idea for senior secondary as it uses the concept of collaborative performance through technology.