Arts Matters
A learning and teaching resource for the Arts
Author: Department of Education and Training, Victoria
Format: Running time 396 mins 2 x DVD
ISBN: ARTSMATTE
Audience: Teacher resource
Price: $49.95
These DVDs contain 13 episodes with an Arts focus.
Episode 1 - The Arts
- Visualising Australian Identity at the National Gallery
- Experimenting with pattern and texture at a Primary Level
- Analysing popular culture through Media Studies
- Using Dramatic techniques to explore Australian Identity
- Being a man in the world of dance
- Graphically communicating Australian Identity
Episode 2 - Music and Dance
- Secondary Dance
- Primary Dance
- Terrasphere
- Secondary Music
- Primary Music
Episode 3 - Indigenous Art
- VAEAI
- Morwell KODE School
- Mia Mia Gallery
- Donna Leslie
- Nowa Nowa Primary School
- William Barak
Episode 4 - Dramatic Styles
- "Victoria Theatre - Vaudeville" Sovereign Hill Education Service's program
- Defining Performance Styles
- Monologue Examination
- Solo Examination
- Drama Victoria
Episode 5 - Theatre Studies Examination Monologues
- 'Geoff' from 'The Club'
- 'Blanche' from 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
- 'Smirnov' from 'The Bear'
- Comments - Geoffrey Milne
Episode 6 - Arts Criticism and Aesthetics: Arts in the West
- Identifying arts criticism and aesthetics in practice
- Why criticise?
- Links between arts criticism, aesthetics and creative process
- Developing a vocabulary for arts criticism and aesthetics
- The role of arts criticism and aesthetics in preparation for the art show
Episode 7 - Visual Arts: Contexts
- Seeking Out Clues
- Observing Contemporary and Traditional Visual Arts
- Cultural and Historical Contexts
- Popular Culture in the Electronic Age
Episode 8 - 'Physical and Compositional skills in Dance': Preparation for Examinations
- Learnt dance focusing on expressive use of movement dynamics
- Composition solo focusing on a broad range of body actions and use of elements
- Solo composition focusing on the relationship between dance and music
- Composition focusing on the unification and use of spatial design
- Comments - Sheryl Bates
Episode 9 - Media Technologies
- How new technologies have changed the media industry
- Making news - How new technologies affect the daily processes
- Effects on the print media - Computer assisted reporting
Episode 10 - Multicultural Arts
- Maria Sangiorgi - Egyptian Dancer
- Mombassa G. Mollel and Joseph Mkodo - African musicians
- Rafael Rojas - Mexican Visual Artist/Sculptor
- Toshi Sakamoto - Wadaiko drummer
- Chari Saldana - Flamenco dancer
- Sergio Tell - Masks in theatre
Episode 11 - Visual Literacy
- What is Visual Literacy?
- Making meaning from pictures
- Visual Literacy and Cinema
- Visual Literacy in fantasy
- Visual Literacy in the Gallery - analysing the works
Episode 12 - Circus across the Arts
- The circus communicates
- Designing for the circus
- Circus stagecraft
- Dance-making in the circus
- The drama of the circus
- The comedy of the circus
- Circus training
- The physical circus
Episode 13 - Traditional Chinese Brush Painting
- A Personal journey with Zhou Xiaoping
