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Cross Disciplinary Laboratory (DNCE60047)
Graduate coursework level 6Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Semester 1
Overview
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This subject focuses upon the potential for interplay and dynamic dialogue between various disciplines and the building blocks of performance creation.
Practical/ studio based classes provide interaction with other discipline streams to develop communication and collaborative skills. Familiarisation with multi-disciplinary approaches is fostered with a focus on the exploration of generative processes used in composition and performance creation.
Laboratory classes allow students to collaborate and develop creative concepts together with the aim to experiment and familiarize with design methods and materials, and to discover possible solutions through the application of different approaches. Teams of professional practitioner/performance makers e.g. designers, directors, dramaturgs and choreographers are combined to promote creative exchange and discovery of methods in which multiple dramaturgies can interact effectively.
Intended learning outcomes
- Gain an understanding of corporeal, spatial and temporal relationships in the constructing of performance from a wide range of perspectives;
- Understand the means by which dramatic/performance text can provide cues for spatial and sound design.
- Gain the capacity to conceptualise and design space – as occupied by a performer (performance space), as visible (visual space) and as an environment for action (setting of performance)
- Gain the capacity to collaborate with others to realise a performance design
- Work individually and as a creative team in the creation and organisation of multi-disciplinary work
- Work with creative integrity and flexibility in working within different artistic forms
Generic skills
Upon completion of this subject students should have:
- The ability to work in other modalities and appreciate their potentials.
- The ability to work as a team in the creation and organization of aesthetic material.
- The capacity to problem solve
- The capacity for critical thinking and the evaluation of artistic materials.
The capacity to identify and use the principles of another modality in the creation of one’s own work.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
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
- Individual & collaborative projects (55%)
- Written assignments & reports no more than 2500 words (45%)
- Hurdle Requirement 80% attendance
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Coordinator Helen Herbertson Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 80 Hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 4 March 2019 to 2 June 2019 Last self-enrol date 15 March 2019 Census date 31 March 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 May 2019 Assessment period ends 28 June 2019 Semester 1 contact information
Time commitment details
170 Hours
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Heddon, Deirdre and Jane Milling, Devising Performance: a critical history, (Hampshire: Palgrave, 2006)
Lehmann, Hans-Thies , Postdramatic Theatre, (Abingdon & NY: Routledge, 2006)
Recommended texts and other resources
None
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Dramaturgy Course Master of Directing for Performance - Links to additional information
- 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