Discipline Skills A (DNCE60048)

Graduate coursework level 6Points: 12.5Not available in 2018

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This subject is for students specialising in Choreography
This subject focuses on dance making fundamentals through compositional and improvisational approaches and strategies for generating materials. Corporeality, space, and time are investigated within aesthetic parameters. A number of concepts such as presence, identity and embodiment are fore-grounded. Techniques for releasing and shaping the spontaneous self through improvisation are explored. Frameworks for structuring material within performative contexts are developed and short studies created. Contextual seminars provide a basis for application of the strategies in a range of choreographic practices.

Intended learning outcomes


  • identify and respond in movement form to internal and external impulses;
  • develop the ability to connect imagery and action;
  • develop the ability to recognise, work within, and conceptualise frameworks that support improvising experience;
  • develop the capacity to organise spontaneously generated movement form into artistic structures;
  • exhibit the ability to develop and organise performed movement form;
  • develop the ability to recognise, synthesise and adapt idiosyncratic performance materials;
  • develop an individual productive working method or approach.

Generic skills

On the completion of this subject students should have developed the following skills:

  • the ability to create and organise aesthetic material;
  • the ability to solve problems;
  • the ability to interpret and analyse;
  • the capacity for critical thinking;
  • the ability to synthesize data and other information.

Last updated: 3 November 2022