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Section 1: Features Identifiers Two musicians and/or two dancers
  1. What are the main features of the animal?
  2. Search the KCC website or the DOC website to find more pictures of and information about the animal.
  3. How did it, or does it, move?
  4. Musicians Setting the scene. Create a motif (like a signature tune or rhythmic pattern) representing the animal to start the performance. Compose a 20 second introduction that communicates something about its characteristics and natural habitat. Consider which instruments and sounds to use and how to use the musical elements of tempo, dynamics and texture to communicate how the animal moves and behaves.
  5. Dancers Setting the scene. Create an exciting still shape of the animal for 4-6 people to start the dance. Compose a 20 second sequence for 4-6 people to communicate the features and one or two movements it made (or makes). Remember to consider the animal's energy and flow and to make your movements large and clear.
Section 2: Information Gatherers Two musicians and/or two dancers
  1. Why is the animal extinct or endangered?
  2. Read the information on the card to find the answer.
  3. Choose a red card that matches the answer.
  4. Musicians Compose a 20 second piece of music for 4-6 people to communicate the reason. Think about the mood for this section of your music. How will you use instruments and voices and musical elements to communicate the mood? Will you have one instrumental sound or many? Will you include a period of silence? How will you build the excitement in the music? Will there be a high point that includes lots of instrumental and vocal sound? Will the sounds all play at once? Will you play the same pattern or layer many different patterns and effects?
  5. Dancers Compose a 20 second sequence for 4-6 people to communicate the reason. Consider how the animal might move in this situation. Remember to consider the animal's energy and flow and to make your movements large and clear.
Section 3: Sustainability Deciders Two musicians and/or two dancers
  1. What should have been done or what should we do now to protect the animal?
  2. Search the KCC website or the DOC website to find out if you are not sure.
  3. Choose a green or blue card that matches your answer.
  4. Musicians Compose a 20 second piece of music for 4-6 people to communicate your answer. What is your group's solution to the survival of this animal? How can this be reflected in the music? What is the mood? Jubilant? Peaceful? Hopeful? Who or what is impacting on the solution of the problem? Collaborative? Solitary? How will the music end? Dramatic? Culminating in thick texture and loud dynamics? Fading to silence?
  5. Dancers Compose a 20 second sequence for 4-6 people to communicate your answer. Remember to consider the animal's energy and flow and to make your movements large and clear. Finish with an exciting still shape.

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