CREATING A CROSS-ARTS CURRICULUM
Lesson Plan 1.3 Resources
Here you will find useful resources for Lesson Plan 1.3 on the Aboriginal Corroboree and Ceremonies.
Video: Aboriginal Crane Dance
This video shows an Aboriginal Crane Dance. Students can observe the style of dance being used, the music and investigate the meanings being portrayed through dance.
Video: Re-living the Corroboree
This video is a mini-documentary that follows a group of modern-day Aboriginals who are trying to pass on the Aboriginal culture to the younger generation to keep it alive.
Students can use this video to discuss the value of keeping culture and traditions alive, and the common causes that could result in a culture being lost.
Image: Variety of Body Paint
This image can be used as an extension task to show the variety of different style of body paint used by different Aboriginal tribes during Corroborees.
Students can investigate the different meanings behind each symbol and design, and also materials used to create the paint and other props used during the dance.
Poem: Corroboree by Oodegaroo Noonaccul
This poem can be further used as an extension task for students. Students can investigate and analyse the tone of the poem, specific descriptive words and the structure of sentence, along with the imagery that is being relayed through the poetic piece.
Students can also use the poem and present it like an Aboriginal story-teller, with one student reading and all other students woring together to perform the story being told through dance, drama and music.
Hot day dies, cook time comes
Now between the sunset and the sleep-time
Time of playabout.
The hunters paint black bodies by firelight with designs of meaning
To dance corroboree.
Now didgeridoo compels with haunting drone eager feet to stamp,
Click-sticks click in rhythm to swaying bodies
Dancing corroboree.
Like spirit things in from the great surrounding dark
Ghost-gums dimly stand at the edge of light
Watching corroboree.
Eerie the scene in leaping firelight,
Eerie the sounds in that wild setting,
As naked dancers weave stories of the tribe
Into corroboree.