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Performance and Research Approaches 2 (DNCE90006)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)

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Further exploration of research methods/forms of inquiry and concepts of arts practice as research and research into the arts as applied to dance-based inquiries. Discussion and presentation of research by current practitioners/researchers. Students discuss research approaches in the larger context of social and cultural perspectives building an understanding of current trends. Attention is given to exploring the issues of research writing and editing as they apply to higher degree research in the creative arts and to developing an articulate, reflective practitioner. Through weekly seminars and exercises students develop their own research approaches in relation to a current project building the foundations for written and creative research.

Intended learning outcomes

On completing this subject students will:



  • develop skills in the preparation and presentation of seminar research papers;
  • develop capacity to describe and analyse artistic performances and contextualise these in cultural and theoretical perspectives;
  • develop an overview of forms of body-based performance, installations and events and an understanding of their aesthetic qualities and social context;
  • develop the ability to use writing as a firm of inquiry
  • develop ability to devise research methods appropriate to specific performance practices and body-based inquiries
  • develop capacity to conduct a comprehensive survey of literature and practice in the field of interest
  • develop the capacity to utilise a contextual review of a wide range of sources to expand upon a specific research inquiry
  • develop the capacity to utilise research questions as complimentary to practice led approaches

Generic skills

  • Capacity to evaluate and synthesise data and other information
  • Ability to communicate in oral and written form and with appropriate digital technologies
  • Capacity for critical thinking
  • Ability to access data and other information from a range of sources
  • Capacity to develop and design research processes appropriate to specific inquiries
  • Capacity for a flexible approach to problem solving

Last updated: 3 November 2022