Choreographic Process into Performance 4 (DNCE20019)

Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)

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Choreographic Process into Performance 4 is comprised of two areas; Choreography and Performance. Choreography will extend students’ abilities to creatively use choreographic techniques and processes in sophisticated and inventive ways. Central foci will be the inclusion and use of music, the development of complex group structures in time and space and the consideration of the performance space. Building on the theoretical and practical frameworks established in Choreographic Process into Performance 3 choreography for groups continues as an important outcome. Methods of doing this as a sole choreographer are investigated and developed including leadership and directing skills. Students will reflect on their own skills development and critically analyse their own and others’ creative and choreographic work verbally and in writing.

 

In Performance students will participate in the third of the five performance projects central to the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) course. Students will participate in making an original work by a guest choreographer or learn and remount an extant dance from a choreographer’s repertory. Students will consolidate their skills as participatory and collaborative dance artists and performers in the creative development processes and/ or the learning and rehearsal stages of a dance work. Interpretive, expressive and articulate physical skills will further develop as students continue to investigate what embodied performance means. Task-based activities to derive new movement material, improvisations, research and a range of ways of exploring creative ideas may be expected in a guest choreographer’s process. This area of the subject will culminate in a Performance season that also includes dances performed by Choreographic Process into Performance 2 students.

Intended learning outcomes

This subject will enable students to:-

  • Apply the craft of choreography, through the proficient use of a wide range of choreographic approaches, to the making of artistic statements in dance
  • Devise and structure choreographic material that expressively uses complex groups structures
  • Devise in response to, and locate choreography in, both traditional and non traditional performance spaces
  • Use music and sound-scapes imaginatively and effectively to enhance the making of artistic statements in dance
  • Organise projects and bring thematic ideas to fruition in dance works completed in time frames
  • Choreograph on others as the sole choreographer by leading and directing process and final outcome
  • Challenge self to further experience using imaginative and innovative approaches to the creation and performance of dances
  • Exercise aesthetic judgement and critical appraisal of own work and the work of others verbally and in writing
  • Participate in the process of remounting repertory authentically and use the appropriate skills dancers demonstrate in this context
  • Be active and participate constructively in the choreographic process of a professional choreographer
  • Demonstrate consolidated and appropriate rehearsal skills, technical and performance skills and an understanding of embodied performance
  • Perform the choreographic work of a professional choreographer

Generic skills

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

 

  • The capacity for working collaboratively and as a member of a team
  • The ability to interpret, analyse and evaluate information
  • The capacity to think critically
  • The ability to recognise and work within aesthetic domains
  • The ability to create and organise aesthetic material
  • The ability to exercise imaginative and transformative processes
  • The capacity to solve problems
  • The ability to apply theory to practice in the creation of artistic work
  • The facility to perform
  • The capacity for kinaesthetic awareness
  • The capacity to communicate in physical, oral and written forms.
  • The capacity for leadership

Last updated: 3 November 2022

Eligibility and requirements

Prerequisites

Code Name Teaching period Credit Points
DNCE20014 Choreographic Process into Performance 3
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
 12.5
DNCE20013 Dance Technique 3
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
 12.5
DNCE20017 Dance Lineages 2
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
 12.5

Corequisites

Code Name Teaching period Credit Points
DNCE20018 Dance Technique 4
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
 12.5

Non-allowed subjects

None

Recommended background knowledge

Completion of Year 1 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) ensures all students have appropriate background knowledge.

Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)

The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.

Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home

Last updated: 3 November 2022

Assessment

Additional details

All assessment tasks must be completed to pass the subject.

The two areas -

1) Choreography and

2) Performance must both be passed to successfully complete the subject.

Additionally, the 20% for written work must be passed to successfully complete the subject.

80% Attendance Hurdle must be met to pass subject.

CHOREOGRAPHY

Participation and Contribution to Coursework (10%)

Written Assignment 1) (10%)

Written Assignment 2) (10%)

Major Choreographic Task – Sole Choreographer

of Group Dance work in a selected location (20%)

 

PERFORMANCE

Contribution, participation and progress during creative development and rehearsal period (20%)

Performance Assessment (30%)

Last updated: 3 November 2022

Dates & times

  • Semester 2
    Principal coordinatorAnna Smith
    Mode of deliveryOn Campus (Southbank)
    Contact hoursTotal 9 hours per week
    Total time commitment140 hours
    Teaching period15 July 2019 to 27 October 2019
    Last self-enrol date26 July 2019
    Census date31 August 2019
    Last date to withdraw without fail27 September 2019
    Assessment period ends22 November 2019

    Semester 2 contact information

    Anna Smith

    smitham@unimelb.edu.au

Time commitment details

2 x 1.5 = 3 hours Choreography 2 x 3 = 6 hours Performance Total Time Commitment: 140 Hours.

Last updated: 3 November 2022

Further information

  • Texts

    Prescribed texts

    Banes S. (1994), Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism, (Chapter 25 - Choreographic Methods of the Judson Dance Theater Pg. 211 - 226)

    Foster S.L. (1986) Reading Dancing

    Jowitt D. (1988) Time and the Dancing Image

    Lesschaeve J. (1985) The Dancer and the Dance, Merce Cunningham in Conversation with Jacqueline Lesschaeve

    Sayre H.M. (1989) The Object of Performance: the American avant-garde since 1970

    Teichel H. (Editor) (2002) Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001

  • Related Handbook entries

    This subject contributes to the following:

    TypeName
    CourseBachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
  • Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students

    This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.

Last updated: 3 November 2022