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Process and Practice 1 (DNCE90007)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)

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This subject focuses on dance making and performing fundamentals through compositional and improvisational approaches and strategies for generating and presenting 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 and performing material within performative contexts are developed and short studies created and presented. Contextual seminars provide a basis for application of the strategies in a range of choreographic and performance practices.

Intended learning outcomes

On completing this subject students will:



  • 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 completion of the subject students should have developed

  • The ability to create, organise and present 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