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Choreographic Process into Performance 1 (DNCE10016)
Undergraduate level 1Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 1
Nina Veretennikova
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Overview
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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.
Intended learning outcomes
This subject will enable students to:
- use the elements of movement, and choreographic form and content with creativity and imagination;
- confidently generate and manipulate choreographic materials;
- achieve a grounding in the fundamental skills of the Duo form drawing on content from both contemporary dance and classical ballet genres;
- use improvisation as a method to explore personal movement vocabulary, and as a choreographic tool;
- create and perform a solo study;
- lay the foundation for an embodied history of Australian Contemporary Choreography through study of significant Australian contemporary repertoire.
Generic skills
On completing this subject students will be able to:
• create and organise aesthetic material
• exercise imaginative and transformative processes
• solve problems
• apply theory to practice in the creation of artistic work
• think critically and work collaboratively;
• recognise and work within aesthetic domains.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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DNCE10017 | Dance Technique 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
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
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Choreographic Processes (55% of total mark for subject) Participation and contribution to coursework (including minor practical assessment mid-semester) 40% Major Assessment Solo task 40%; Journal equivalent to 2000 words 20%. | Throughout the teaching period | 55% |
Improvisation: Participation and contribution to coursework 100% | Throughout the teaching period | 15% |
Duo: Participation and contribution to coursework 100% | Throughout the teaching period | 15% |
Repertory Studies (15% of total mark for subject) Participation and contribution to course work 60% Group presentation of repertoire extract 40% | Throughout the teaching period | 15% |
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend 80% of all scheduled classes and attempt all elements of assessment to be eligible for a pass in this subject. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Nina Veretennikova Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 90 Hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 2 March 2020 to 7 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 13 March 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 3 July 2020 Semester 1 contact information
Nina Veretennikova
Time commitment details
170 Hours
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Building dances: a guide to putting dances together - S. McGreevy-Nichols, H. Scheff, M.Sprague (2005)
The Intimate Act of Choreography – Lynne Anne Blum & L. Tarin Chaplin (1982)
Choreography: a basic approach to using improvisation - Sandra C. Minton (2007) - Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
Last updated: 3 November 2022