Choreographic Process into Performance 1 (DNCE10016)

Choreographic Process into Performance 1 introduces students to choreographic elements and principles, performance skills and artistry that will be central to their development as a dance artist.

An investigation of the elements of contemporary choreography: Body, Space, and Time aims to develop each student's ability to confidently create and manipulate choreographic materials. Creative compositional processes, improvisation tasks and scores, skills development in the duo form and studio-based study of Australian contemporary repertoire provides an integrated approach to the development of a personal movement vocabulary and style and ultimately for developing original choreography.

Practical workshops in partnering draw on both contemporary dance and classical ballet to develop students’ fundamental skills in partnering and an understanding of the duet form.

As an introduction to practice-based research students will encounter the work of significant Australian choreographers through the study and reproduction of extracts of seminal works.

Further context for the extracts studied here will also be examined in the complementary Dance Lineages subject.

During the three-year course students will work with a range of leading and emerging choreographers in the creation and performance of new dance works and existing repertoire.