The Royal New Zealand Ballet has created a dynamic new education resource for New Zealand teachers, students and classrooms based on the company's production of Don Quixote. Leaping out from its pages are ideas for students and teachers to create dance in their own classrooms and the opportunity to explore the RNZB through the exploration of its classical and contemporary ballets. This resource is written for primary, intermediate and secondary teachers and their students.
We encourage you to immerse yourself in the information provided, view the video footage, print off handouts for your class groups and complement your study of Don Quixote by attending the production at one of our 8 touring centres over the next two months.
We encourage students working through the resource to comment on each of the resource pages. Use this space to answer the focus questions, comment on the video footage and/or tell us your experiences from studying or viewing Don Quixote.
Teachers are encouraged to comment on this page. Commence a dialogue with other teachers using the work in their classrooms, ask questions about the works, comment on the live performance that you attend or request further information from Education staff. We look forward to hearing from you.
We would like to thank Jan Bolwell for her expertise in writing this resource, Julian Ward for his fabulous video footage of the dancers in rehearsal and in performance this season. To Sir Jon Trimmer and the RNZB dancers for allowing us to film you at work. A special thanks to Gary Harris and Adrian Burnett for allowing us into the studio during your rehearsals, for the generosity of your time and for allowing us to dive into the world of your creative processes.