A Day Exploring Identity

What an amazing day we had in Wellington today. Despite some trepidation about what was going to happen in our dance arts workshop, everyone enjoyed it and the Gallery staff all commented on the thoughtful insights our students had and how they enjoyed their enthusiasm.

To start with we looked at some video art screens, showing sets of triplets and twins sharing stories. We had to look for differences between them. 

Identical triplets - can you see any differences?

Identical twins. What differences and similarities can you see?

 We stopped to have a talk and play the 'same different' game with Claire. It was interesting to find out what similarities and differences we all had with each other.

We looked at the Thriller panels. Each of these was a person who loved Michael Jackson, performing their way though
the album Thriller. If we went up to each video panel we could hear each individual, but when
we were further away it was like a group singing.

So after looking at these we thought about individual identity and then how individuals form communities.

Here we are in the dance space upstairs starting to learn some moves.

After all our hard work thinking, viewing and dancing we got to head off outside for lunch, where we found...sports!! There was a soccer pitch in Civic Square for the U20 Fifa World Cup, so we watched and played and got to see some of the soccer players from around the world playing.

We met a wizard who says he grew up with Gandalf!