The Ramayana:
The Diwali dance workshop
✓ Reception - Year 6
✓ Led by a professional West End Dancer
✓ Religious Education, World Around Us
✓ Free teacher resources
✓ Delivered in your school hall
Bring all the energy of Diwali into your primary school
Celebrate Diwali with The Ramayana Dance Workshop - perfect for Diwali which will be celebrated in November this year!
Led by a professional dancer, the children vividly imagine and physically embody the different roles, dramatic situations and actions of the main characters in the Ramayana as they retell elements of the great Hindu epic story through dance.
The Ramayana is the most well known story told during Diwali celebrations. The great Hindu epic story about prince Rama and his wife Sita has been shared orally and through dance for centuries.
Important cross-cultural concepts like the power of good over evil, knowledge over ignorance, freedom over oppression, and hope over despair are all touched upon.
Diwali is embraced by a number of religions and is a metaphor for the idea of self-improvement. By retelling the famous story through dance, children improve their cultural understanding and confidence in self-expression.
Music by: Danyal Dhondy
Choreography by: Sita Thomas
Find out more about our creatives.
- We work with individual classes for sessions of between 35 and 50 minutes.
- We can work with up to seven classes per day.
- To work with fewer classes we can visit for just an afternoon or morning session.
- To work with more than seven classes we can visit across multiple days.
- We will send you a suggested timetable when you enquire and we can work with you to create a timetable that works for your school day.
- To develop an understanding of the most well known story behind Diwali by recreating the narrative from start to finish.
- To gain confidence in physical literacy and explore how physical vocabulary can express emotion.
- To develop creative ownership and the imagination by working alongside a professional dancer-choreographer.
- To improve cultural understanding by exploring this important literary work.
When you book you will receive a link to a full pack of supporting teacher resources that can be used before or after the workshop. Take a look at a preview of that resource or head to our blog for more ideas for using dance in the primary classroom.
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