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 * Welcome Deakin Secondary College Year 11 Dancers! **

== This wiki will become your resource as we study 'Ghost Dances', the amazing contemporary dance piece by Christopher Bruce.

Each lesson in class, we will analyse this dance piece from a different perspective. In groups of three to four, you will edit a piece of this wiki that relates to one of these perspectives. This will include:


 * how the intention of this work is expressed through:
 * expressive body actions (including gesture, locomotion, elevation, falling, turning and stillness
 * technical and physical skills (including alignment, coordination, balance, strength, control, flexibility, stamina and transference of weight
 * elements of movement (including time, space and energy)
 * choreographic devices (including abstraction, repetition, motif, addition, accumulation, inversion, distortion, and retrograde)

. Each group is only required to discuss one of the above sub-dot-points. They will have one week from the beginning of the topic to complete their editions to the wiki and each group member is expected to contribute equally to the task (note that student contributions are visible through the history tab). You may therefore wish to break the point up and allocate one or two areas for each group member to complete (for example: the group examining expressive body actions may like to allocate one group member to write about gesture and locomotion, another to elevation and falling, another to turning and stillness). If you choose this approach, you are still expected to discuss your work with each other and brainstorm ideas about each others areas.
 * how the piece was influenced by:
 * cultural influences on choices made by Bruce in relation to expressive intention, movement vocabulary and form
 * cultural influences on choices made by choreographers in relation to the technical and production aspects of solo dance works (including performance space, costuming, lighting, sets, and, where appropriate, properties, make-up, mechanical and/or digital devices)

To get started, firstly navigate to the 'Group Sign-Up' by clicking on that page listed on the left, and write the names of your group members in the table provided. Then, to complete your task, click on 'About Ghost Dances' also listed on the left and follow the instructions provided on the page. You can also refer to the Background Information page to read up on Christopher Bruce and his choreographic masterpiece.