Month: August 2020
Culturama (Grade 12) First Post!
LO4-Show commitment and perseverance in CAS experiences. Students can articulate the stages from conceiving an idea to executing a plan for a CAS experience or series of CAS experiences. LO7-Recognise and consider the ethics implications of choices and actions.
This year my friend and I got accepted as dance leaders into the annual dance showcase that our school hosts which is called Culturama. It features several dances from all around the world to celebrate the diversity that we have in our school. My friend an I are leading a dance for South Africa and we have drawn inspiration for our piece from the Hip Hop styles that became popular after apartheid such as Kwaito and Pantsula. Although last year Culturama was a creative experience for me, this year due to the hiphop dance styles we have chosen, I believe it is more of a physical exertion learning process than a creative one. We have struggled a little bit so far to get a hang of the moves and keep up our stamina bit we are hoping with more training to become more comfortable and physically able to carry out the dance.
The learning outcomes I believe that I will see throughout the process is looking at commitment and perseverance because these are very hard dance styles to learn and it is quite exhausting but we want to commit ourselves to learning them and executing them. Also I looked at the ethical responsibility we have to represent this cultures in an accurate manner and to but in sufficient effort into making sure we do the moves correctly so as to not offend anyone.
Culturama G12 First Reflection
Learning Outcome: LO4-Show commitment and perseverance in CAS experiences. Students can articulate the stages from conceiving an idea to executing a plan for a CAS experience or series of CAS experiences.
This year my friend and I are leading a Culturama dance for the country of South Africa meaning we are the ones in charge of creating the entire dance from start to end. The reason I put this as an activity is because of the physical exertion that is required of us because South African dancing uses so much footwork. I believe this relates to the leaning outcome above because throughout the dance we are going to face challenges but we need to be able to overcome then and pull through to the end of the dance.