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Choreographic Process into Performance 4 (DNCE20019)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 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 2 (Early-Start)
Anna Smith
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Overview
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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 |
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DNCE20014 | Choreographic Process into Performance 3 | Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
DNCE20013 | Dance Technique 3 | Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
DNCE20017 | Dance Lineages 2 | Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
Corequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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DNCE20018 | Dance Technique 4 | Semester 2 (Early-Start) (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
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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Hurdle requirement: 80% Attendance Hurdle must be met to pass subject. 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. | N/A | |
CHOREOGRAPHY: Participation and Contribution to Coursework | Throughout the semester | 10% |
CHOREOGRAPHY: Written Assignment 1 Hurdle requirement: A pass in this assessment item must be achieved to successfully complete the subject. | 10% | |
CHOREOGRAPHY: Written Assignment 2 Hurdle requirement: A pass in this assessment item must be achieved to successfully complete the subject. | 10% | |
CHOREOGRAPHY: 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 | Throughout the semester | 20% |
PERFORMANCE: Performance Assessment | 30% |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 2 (Early-Start)
Principal coordinator Anna Smith Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours Total 9 hours per week Total time commitment 140 hours Teaching period 20 July 2020 to 1 November 2020 Last self-enrol date 31 July 2020 Census date 21 September 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 16 October 2020 Assessment period ends 27 November 2020 Semester 2 (Early-Start) contact information
Anna Smith
Time commitment details
2 x 1.5 = 3 hours Choreography 2 x 3 = 6 hours Performance Total Time Commitment: 140 Hours.
Additional delivery details
This subject is delivered either partially or fully in-person in Second Half Year 2020. Please ensure you are able to attend any essential in-person requirements or speak to Stop 1 about alternative subject options.
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:
Type Name Course Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
Last updated: 3 November 2022