The following post was shared by Ms. Searles, dance teacher extraordinaire and technology adventurer!-
"We'd love to share this blog from our VPA Blog with the Principal's Blog!
http://vpaacademy.blogspot.com/2015/05/dancing-through-pages-of-history.html
Each year, we chose a new subject source as inspiration for the choreography project for the Academy Ballet, Tap, and Jazz classes. This year the students have chosen a person, event, or era in US or World History as their inspiration for their piece. They researched and organized an eMaze to present before they dance for the class. Peers then voted on 1-3 pieces that represented their class in the 5th Annual Dance Academy Student Choreographer's Showcase on Tuesday May 19th. Images from their inspiration source were projected by the technical theater students on screens behind the dancer and the upper level classes also had video images that played on a small projector at the front corner of the stage. The dances were performed in historical order of events and we could not be more proud!
Emaze examples:Student Emaze Example #1, Student Emaze Example #2
Photos courtesy of: http://www.imajinuphotos.com. Youtube link to the show-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmILhwgzhkY
Jazz 3 and 4 students with media elements during in class presentations."
