2004 School Magazine

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Faculties:Creative Arts

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Art Report Tell ,"e 94.1d T ban^' f'ora""' Show he A+Id z mm^ vane, "bay. .. T*IYO!Ve ,"a 0.41d :L will tear, .. This year the Visual Art students in all year levels have been actively involved in making decisions about what to do and how to do it. Once a task is set the students look at various ways to individualise their response and resolve their complex problems. Students have enjoyed the freedom and the challenges that have been set and obtain feedback about their ideas and concepts from other students and Art staff. Some of the concepts that have inspired us this year are Time, Contain, inside/Outside, Self. Urban/ Suburban. The year has also been filled with excursions to the Queensland At Gallery and Shorncliffe to do some outside photography and drawing in preparation for a painting unit. We had visiting artists showing us photography and wearable art and teaching us different ways to approach and think about our artwork Ufe Drawing developed experimental work that could be resolved further Studio afternoons were filled with students wanting more time to work on their art after school and mini workshops were run to teach new skills in diffore areas ch as photographic screenprinting Workshops after school with Brisbane Grammar School were very popular Photography. drawing, painting, sculpture andjewellery workshops were all repeated in two terms due to popular demand with a variety of Students ike or ts d SOC 1151 with the boys. More w rkshop ' I ffered again next year iting ideas Mon f'oraver . . .

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again for the Drama Department. The 2004 Drama programme has offered students a chorus movement piece employing a number of characteristics of the Greek theatre a range of learning experiences, specialist style such as unison. canon, formations, workshops and theatre visits to expose entrances and exits. This engaging classroom students to. and enrich, their dramatic experience gave students the freedom to understanding Year I I Drama students openly explore the physical nature of Greek explored the Italian style of Street Theatre known as Cornmeal^~Dell75,it^~through~^5^rias~~theatre while challenging themselves to of physical workshops. Many of the students discover the possibilities of dynamic group movement using the work of this professional fell so in love with the colourful masked theatre troupe as their guide. The results were characters in class that they decided to use visually spectacular" I Miss E Lauman, Year I O Open Day as an opportunity to take these teacherI characters on the street, literally. They roved 'Through the choreographed pieces the campus grounds entertaining crowds with linking scenes and the effect produced by a their comic tricks and then later performed mob of masked actors, students were able improvised scenes in the Gehrmann Theatre it was an exciting year of theatre visits tool to draw inspiration for their own assessment visiting the theatre expands students' notions Items. Symbolism was effectiveIy used and of possibilities and connects them to the real Important truths were conveyed through the strong character representations. The skilfully world of Drama. Year I OS viewed Zen Zen ZOS production of The Odyssey to extend their crafted script, engaging movement pieces and effective chorus work successfully portrayed classroom learning of Greek Theatre They also took part in an aftershow forum where Ulysses' story to the audience. making it a they gained insight into the behind-thescenes highly enjoyable and successful performance The opportunity to conference with the actors world of the play. it was an inspiring and very contemporary piece of physical theatre after the performance gave Insight into the highly demanding physical training of the that demonstrated excellent chorus work and actors and the actors' interpretations of the choreography play. " ( Rachel Ferris, I OR!

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The chorus that we devised was ritual1stIC. repetitive in its movement and abstract in its text. After seeing the production students were keen to experiment with a number of

Mrs K RiverOS Head of Drama