How to use this resource This resource is very much editable! Information can be added and taken away depending on the way you choose to run the activity. Each picture is followed by additional questions that may be useful to discuss in class. Background information for teachers on each image can be found in the Resource Pack PDF How to use this resource

About the Roundhouse The Roundhouse is a performance space. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. About the Roundhouse The Roundhouse is a performance space. The space changes depending on what event is going on. Sometimes plays and musicals are performed in the space. Sometimes musicians, pop stars and bands play in the space. Sometimes artists present their art work in the space.

Watch the video to see how the space looks depending on who is using it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPnW8ST7gJM

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A video of the performance: What’s going on in the picture? A video of the performance:

Questions What is happening? Where are the colours coming from? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Questions What is happening? Where are the colours coming from? What does this picture remind you of? What do you think the performance is about? Where are the audience? Where is the performer? How are you able to look from below up at the performer? What puzzles you about this photograph?

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Questions What is happening? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Questions What is happening? What character might the woman be playing? Why is she covered in dirt? What production or play might she be in? What sort of character do you think she plays? Why? Who else is in the picture? What are their jobs? How do you think the lady is feeling? Do you think the production is set in today’s world or in the past? Why?

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Questions What can you see in the picture? What surprises you? Who are the people? What are they doing? What do you think might have happened? If this is an art installation or sculpture, what is the message or meaning the artist is trying to make? How did the car and bricks get inside the roundhouse? Where has the car come from?

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Questions Why does one of the performers have a bag on his head? What story might the performers be telling? What’s going to happen next? Where might the second performer land? Do their costumes tell you anything about the performance? What sort of show is it? What puzzles you about the photograph? What type of dance do you think this is? Are the dancers telling a story? What might the story be?

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Questions What is happening in the photograph? What might be behind the curtain? How has the curtain been made? Do you think stuff happens in front, on or behind the curtain? Why? Do you think the giant curtain stays the same all the time? How might it change? Who is the person in the photo? What might they be doing? Does this art installation remind you of anything?

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Questions Where do you think this performance is happening? Explain. Do you think the performers are safe? Why/why not? Where might the audience be? What puzzles you about this photograph? What sort of performance is this? (play, musical, circus, dance, art exhibition?) How do you know?

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Questions Where do you think this photograph was taken? What is happening on the stage? What sort of performance do you think is happening? Play? Concert? Circus? Dance? Justify your thinking. Look at the stage floor? What do you think it is made out of? Why? What else do you notice in the photograph that might tell you more about the performance? Who are all the seats for? Why are they empty? Does anything puzzle you about the photograph? Do you think the production is set in the UK? Why/why not?

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Questions Why is the photograph black and white? What is the photograph showing? Is this a ‘real life’ photograph? Explain your thinking? How do you know? What makes you suspect that this picture is a model rather than an aerial photograph? Who might use a photograph like this? What do you think the different parts of the building are going to be used for? What other buildings/structures does this building remind you of? What is the building going to be used for? How do you know? Look at some pictures of the Roundhouse before 1997. What is the same? What is different about the space?

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Questions What is at the centre of the picture? Why are there lines linking the object to the building? What are their purpose? What materials have been used? What will happen if someone plays the object? Who is going to use this instrument? How loud do you think the organ will be? Will the organ sound like an organ or will it make a different sound? Explain your thinking? Why are there no other objects or instruments in the big space?

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Questions What can you see in the photograph? Have you seen something similar? Where? When? Why do you think that this structure is in an inside space? Why has the castle been built at the Roundhouse? What is its purpose? Who might use it? How many people might be able to go inside the castle? What is it made out of? Why might a bouncy castle be in a performance space like the Roundhouse? What has the bouncy castle got to do with art or music or dance?