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World Premiere Season
Imagine you could fly. Float among the clouds. Soar through the air. Spin and twist above the ground. Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a circus performer!
Brisbane's internationally celebrated Circa take flight above the young audience in a poetic display of aerial skill within an ephemeral lightshow and a soundscape of remixed broadcasts and radio waves.
Commissioned for Out of the Box 2010
Creator/Director: Yaron Lifschitz
Dramaturg: Polly Rowe
Things to try
- Birds - Eagles soar, but emus run, and penguins waddle. Use whole body movements to show how these animals travel.
- Machines - Rockets fly to the moon without the help of wings. Float in a gravity-free capsule and walk on the moon with weighted boots. Helicopters have rotary blades instead of wings. Spin around with arms out-stretched. Stop before you get dizzy and be sure to have a safe landing pad. Make a paper plane, paper glider, or paper dart. Research the world's longest flight by a paper plane in the Guinness Book of Records. Watch the world record paper airplane flight
- Clouds - Clouds skid quickly across the sky in a storm or hang gently in a sunset. Some are puffy, others are thin or wispy. Find the proper names for different types of clouds.
Books to read
- The Flying Ark by Carolyn Jackson, Illustrations by Graham Bardell
- Bubbleology: A Hands-on Science Kit by Jim Moskowitz and Casey Carle
- Kids' Paper Airplane Book by Ken Blackburn and Jeff Lammers
About the company
Visit the Circa website
A non-text based performance by aerial artists high above the audience. Students may reflect on the nature of flight-by animals or machines-and create movement and soundscapes in follow-up class work.
Ages: 6 and under
Essential Learnings QCAR Framework
Ways of working - The Arts
Create and shape arts works by combining arts elements to express personal ideas, feelings and experiences
Knowledge and understanding - Dance
Fast and slow movements are used to change timing in movement phrases
Assessable element
Creating
E.g. Make your own dance on bubbles. Watch the lightness of a bubble floating through air. Blow with a gentle breath to change the direction of its flight.
- Pretend to be a bubble and softly fly through the air
- With a breeze they fly high and quickly, then slow down and drop
- They land with a pop!
Before
- Birds - Eagles soar, but emus run, and penguins waddle. Use whole body movements to show how these animals travel.
- Machines - Rockets fly to the moon without the help of wings. Float in a gravity-free capsule and walk on the moon with weighted boots. Helicopters have rotary blades instead of wings. Spin around with arms out-stretched. Stop before you get dizzy and be sure to have a safe landing pad. Make a paper plane, paper glider, or paper dart. Research the world's longest flight by a paper plane in the Guinness Book of Records. Watch the world record paper airplane flight.
- Clouds - Clouds skid quickly across the sky in a storm or hang gently in a sunset. Some are puffy, others are thin or wispy. Find the proper names for different types of clouds.
Books
Non-fiction
- The Flying Ark by Carolyn Jackson, Illustrations by Graham Bardell
- Bubbleology: A Hands-on Science Kit by Jim Moskowitz and Casey Carle
- Kids' Paper Airplane Book by Ken Blackburn and Jeff Lammers
About the company
Visit the Circa website.