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In-School Workshops

In-School Workshops

#​Queensland Ballet's adept Teaching Artists bring a curriculum-aligned, safe and inclusive dance experience directly to your school.

Developed by our specialist QB Community Engagement Team and validated by educators, our In-School Workshop program is meticulously crafted to align with the Australian Curriculum V9 – The Arts: Dance strands, encompassing content descriptors, elaborations, and connections to General Capabilities and linking the workshop to Achievement Standards. Our Senior offerings seamlessly align with QCAA Senior Dance General and Applied Syllabi, ensuring that each workshop not only relates to but enhances the ongoing teaching and learning in the classroom. 

Workshop details

Durations: 40 - 60 minutes

Location: Workshops are held Queensland wide at primary and secondary schools, kindergartens and community halls.

Cost

For more information about fees and special package prices download the In-School Workshop pre-registration pack below.

Teaching Artists

Queensland Ballet's Teaching Artists are familiar with curriculum subject matter and terminology, and trained to work with students of all abilities to ensure our workshops are inclusive and accessible to all.

#Queensland Ballet In-school Workshops

Select an age range below to see what we offer

#Kindergarten - Academic Year 2

Kombumerri Dreaming Story – Morro Garrara

Exploring Dreaming stories through movement
Academic Years Prep – Year 02

Created in collaboration with Dr Beth Tailby from Toogoolawah State School. This workshop engages students with the Kombumerri Dreaming story of Morro Garrara, shared by Kombumerri Traditional Custodian, Uncle Max Dillon. Students will explore storytelling, movement phrases, and a choreographic task that explores themes of pride, acceptance, and resilience. The workshop culminates in a celebration of student work, while enhancing cross-curricular skills and general capabilities in critical thinking, digital literacy, literacy, and personal and social capability.

Moving Stories

Bringing a narrative to life
Kindergarten

Movement concepts are introduced in a playful and creative way through the exploration of well-known stories and music.

Our program is designed to ignite imaginations while also promoting physical and cognitive development with strong, point-at-able links to EYLF outcomes.

Exploring Cinderella

Storytelling through movement
Prep (Foundation) and Year 1

Explore characters from Queensland Ballet's upcoming production of Cinderella using shape, space, levels and dynamics to bring the beloved narrative to life.

Join us for an exciting dance adventure, with classes available for children of all abilities. This workshop demonstrates clear alignment to Foundation and Years 1 ACARA V9 Content Descriptors.

Coding to MOVE (STEAM - Dance and Technology)

Learning the basics of coding through dance
Academic Year 2

Challenge your students with a choreographic exploration of space and dynamics that echoes coding and programming.

This STEAM based creative dance workshop explores the connection between how we program a robot to move, and how we can look at choreography through a programming lens to make decisions about how to move.

The Nutcracker Repertoire

Dancing through different cultures, contexts and viewpoints
Academic Year 2

During this workshop students will focus on how space, time, dynamics and choreographic devices reflect the cultural influences and historical contexts of adapted/inspired repertoire from The Nutcracker.

In whole-class performance and small group-based choreographic activities, students will learn to manipulate the learnt repertoire.

# Academic Years 3 - 6

Kombumerri Dreaming Story – Gwondo

Exploring Dreaming stories through movement
For Academic Years 03 - 06

Created in collaboration with Kombumerri Traditional Custodian Uncle Max Dillon and Doctor Beth Tailby from Toogoolawah State School. Students explore themes from the Kombumerri Dreaming story of Gwondo, shared by Uncle Max Dillon, through warm-up exercises, storytelling, improvisation, and choreographic tasks, emphasising community, cooperation, and connection to nature.

Coding to MOVE (STEAM - Dance and Technology)

Linking the basics of coding to dance
Academic Years 3 - 4

Challenge your students with a choreographic exploration of space and dynamics that echoes coding and programming.

This STEAM based creative dance workshop explores the connection between how we program a robot to move, and how we can look at choreography through a programming lens to make decisions about how to move.

The Nutcracker Repertoire

Dancing through different cultures, contexts and viewpoints
Academic Years 3 - 6

During this workshop students will focus on how space, time, dynamics and choreographic devices reflect the cultural influences and historical contexts of adapted/inspired repertoire from The Nutcracker.

In whole-class performance and small group-based choreographic activities, students will learn to manipulate the learnt repertoire.

Lest We Forget

Dancing through history
Academic Years 3 - 6

This workshop explores the theme of war and social, historical and cultural contexts and viewpoints through adapted/inspired contemporary ballet repertoire from Natalie Weir’s poignant work We Who Are Left, from the Queensland Ballet triple bill Lest We Forget.

Students will be guided through themed choreographic activities that will assist in creating their own, unique movements, providing opportunities for them to develop creativity and problem-solving skills.

Dance the Painting

Choreographic Practice: Responding to Visual Stimuli
Academic Years 3 - 6

This workshop explores the connection between artwork and dance, inspired by a selection of paintings created by Judy Watson. This workshop explores choreographic practices through activities encouraging responding to visual stimuli to create movement sequences using dance concepts.

The content has been developed in consultation with the contemporary Australian Indigenous art faculty at Griffith University.

#Academic Years 7 - 12

Ballet History & Technique

Historical and cultural origins and the importance of ballet today
Academic Years 7 - 12

Ballet’s historical and cultural origins explored through movement – students will learn ballet and adapted/inspired repertoire from 3 distinct important historical periods, identifying key genre-specific characteristics, vocabulary and style-specific technique, adapted for various ages, abilities and experience.

Partnering

The physics of ‘moving’
Academic Years 7 - 12

Students will be carefully and respectfully guided through the fundamentals of modern dance partnering, exploring basic principles of physics: counter-balance, base of support, centre of gravity, force and momentum. These skills will then be synthesised and integrated into learning company repertoire - an excerpt of partnering sequence from a Queensland Ballet production.

Practical Analysis of Purpose, Context and Viewpoint

Explore and analyse choreographers’ use of dance concepts to convey context, viewpoint and achieve purpose
Academic Years 10 - 12

Students will inquire into context, viewpoint, purpose and meaning through the analysis of two QB productions – a classical storytelling ballet and a contemporary ballet.

Students will learn two excepts of repertoire, exploring the dance concepts used to convey context, viewpoint, meaning and achieve purpose before using elements of dance and choreographic devices to manipulate sequences to enhance meaning and emphasise context and purpose.

Ghost Dances - Socio-political contexts and viewpoints

Academic Years 10 - 12

Students will learn interact with dance made within a socio-political and cultural context via adapted repertoire inspired by QB’s 2017 staging of Christopher Bruce’s iconic work Ghost Dances.

Students will learn an excerpt of adapted repertoire and experiment with elements of dance and choreographic devices to refine and emphasise context and viewpoint through choreographic tasks. This workshop was design to strongly connect to QCAA General Dance’s Unit 3 subject matter, complimenting and extending classroom activities and assessment objectives.

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Terms and conditions

Be sure to read our terms and conditions for in-school workshops before you register.

School Immersions

The School Immersion program from Queensland Ballet offers primary and secondary school groups an educational arts experience at the Thomas Dixon Centre.

Online school workshops

If you're in a regional or interstate location, or just need an agile solution for learning, you can now bring Queensland Ballet school dance workshops to your students virtually!

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and perform. Long before we performed on this land, it played host to the dance expression of our First Peoples. We pay our respects to their Elders — past, present and emerging — and acknowledge the valuable contribution they have made and continue to make to the cultural landscape of this country.

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