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Process and Practice 1 (DNCE90007)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2020
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Overview
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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
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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DNCE90003 | Collaboration Laboratory 1 | Not available in 2024 |
12.5 |
DNCE90005 | Performance Research Approaches 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
DNCE90010 | Project 1 | Not available in 2024 |
12.5 |
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
The Master of Dance offers graduates of BFA (Dance), equivalent degrees and those with appropriate levels of industry experience in choreography and performance the opportunity to further develop and enrich their professional practice. Placing a distinctive focus on the integration of performance skills and choreographic practice to facilitate a holistic physical sensibility underpinned by a commitment to collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches, the Master of Dance is suited to dancers, performers, improvisers, dance-makers and body-based practitioners and will equip them with a high level of professional skill and expertise as multi-dimensional dance artists.
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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Dance works and practical presentations each with specific objectives (4 minimum) - Regular intervals through semester
| Throughout the teaching period | 55% |
Short written reports reflecting upon practical presentation, no more than 2000 words total (2 reports x 500 words) - Regular intervals through semester
| Throughout the teaching period | 20% |
1 x written paper
| End of the teaching period | 25% |
Hurdle requirement: 80% attendance | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Additional details
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
Not available in 2020
Time commitment details
140 hours
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of 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