The Arts in Collaboration
As well as functioning as distinct disciplines, dance, drama, music, and the visual arts can operate together. For example, music and dance are integral parts of waiata-a-ringa, and forms of the visual arts are often essential components of productions in dance, drama, or music.
Collaborative arts projects give students opportunities to extend their knowledge, skills, and experience within more than one arts discipline. They can be multimedia or multi-disciplinary projects or such school-wide events as festivals, productions, or cultural celebrations.
In assessing student learning within collaborative arts projects, teachers should identify the different forms of learning that occur and monitor students' progress and achievement in each arts discipline.
Learning Examples
Drama and Music
- Explore ideas for storytelling that include both drama and music. Create and present a work in which musicians interact with actors or storytellers so that music is as much a part of the storytelling as speaking, movement, gesture, and the use of props.
Dance and Music
- Develop and present hip hop routines to the accompaniment of a record manipulated on a DJ turntable.
Drama and the Visual Arts
- Explore and describe how dramatic elements (e.g., role, tension, mood) are used in computer games. Using computer graphics, create characters and animate them to develop a dramatised scene or story.
Dance, Music, and the Visual Arts
- Create and produce a music video that combines choreography, music performance, and video production effects and techniques.
Drama, Music, and the Visual Arts
- Design and make puppets and develop characters for them. Create and present a puppet show, using musical underscoring and sound effects.
Dance, Music, and the Visual Arts
- Create a sound sculpture that is made from found materials and uses wind to make sound. Improvise dance in response to the sound or to the sculpture itself.
Dance, Drama, and Music
- Experiment with different ways in which computer-generated sounds and lighting can combine with dance and mimed activity. Work collaboratively to develop and present a work that integrates computer-generated sounds and lighting, dance, and mimed activity.
Dance, Drama, Music, and the Visual Arts
- Plan and prepare an appropriate welcome or farewell ceremony for special visitors to the school or class. Use dance, drama, music, and the visual arts to create a presentation that reflects the particular character or history of the school or community.
