Mascall Dance will be touring Homewerk in 2012 and is currently booking at Elementary schools, Children's Festivals and Theatres.
The theme is universal, the method of imaging inventive and unique.
Mascall Dance 's latest offering for YOUTH is a collection of stories from around the world about HOME .
Audience: Adaptable to all grade levels
Duration: 50 Minutes - 1 Hour without or with question/answer period respectively
Capacity: 600
Contact: Phone the Mascall Dance Office at 604-669-9337 or email mascall.homewerk@gmail.com
Homewerk is an educational dance piece that takes stories of home from around the world to inspire and entertain young people. Dance is used as a medium for story telling to engage our ideas of home in creative and physical ways. Four dancers tell stories through words and choreographed movement, using cardboard props that create vivid imagery as they transform from houses into villages, to screens at an airport to medieval gowns. These are children's stories that take the idea of home beyond physical space to more abstract concepts of shelter, comfort and acceptance.
Homewerk is an interdisciplinary performance encompassing visual art, theatre, social studies and dance. The stories are emotionally engaging and intellectually provocative and there is a wide-range of multi-ethnic stories to choose from. The program is adaptable to all grade levels.
Student Participation
Students are invited to share their thoughts about home and belonging through a prearranged, in-class process before the performance. One student's writing can then be selected. The Mascall Dance artists can improvise a dance based on the selected writing, and incorporate it into the performance. In addition, a workshop can be arranged with Mascall Dance to accompany the performance. Students will work with the dancers to create and play with cardboard as props for home and tools for movement.
Students will
- Observe the creative process on a topic they have thoughts and ideas about
- Study storytelling from a number of different perspectives
- Study movement through observation, interpretation and evaluation
- Recognize movement patterns in space
- Learn about using props
Legacy
Mascall Dance's performance on the study of home and the search for belonging acts as an outline that can be followed to either recreate the same show, or produce a 'home-grown' version.
Available to be booked, please contact Mascall Dance for more information:
Tel. 604-669-9337, Email: mascall.homewerk(at)gmail.com
Homewerk Stories of the Month
Below is a child's response from a 'Homewerk' school showing in 2004
Mascall Dance would love to collect your personal stories of home! Please send us your stories and they could be seen in the next Homewerk performance or posted online at 'Homewerk' Stories of the Month!
The Homewerk 2009 Dancers
Jennifer Cole
Natalie Gan
Sasha Klapkiw
Deanna Peters
Kyle Vicente
The Homewerk 2008 Dancers
Susan Kania
Shay Keubler
Sasha Klapkiw
Kim Sato
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