Handbook home
Dance Lab 3: Repertory Studies (DNCE20034)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 25On Campus (Southbank)
Please refer to the return to campus page for more information on these delivery modes and students who can enrol in each mode based on their location.
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Semester 1
Overview
Availability | Semester 1 |
---|---|
Fees | Look up fees |
This subject has a focus on dance theatre skills. Building on the work of previous semesters, this subject extends the dancer’s embodied, creative and technical flexibility through continued studio technical training incorporating skills in voice and use of text.
More complex understanding of body awareness, kinesthetic pathways, movement coordination, breath patterns and motor learning is supported by tasking and advanced instruction that explores narrative and meaning in contemporary contexts of performance. Detailed gestural and whole body movement is integrated allowing the students to extend their capacity to metamorphose the quality and distinction of their movement. Musicality and rhythmic knowledge are deepened and collaborations with live music cultivates an attuned sensitivity to the space and tone of attention in the relationship between dancer and musician. Voice skills are developed through vocal warm-ups and the learning of sung and percussive scores.
Connecting technical training with repertory work, in Dance Lab 3 students also develop skills in creative dexterity as they apply technical knowledge to the interpretation and recreation of dance scores. Students continue to apply an autonomous practice addressing specific technical and creative goals in consultation with staff, building fitness, flexible thinking, resilience, creativity, conceptual dexterity and self-confidence as performers.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- apply flexible movement solutions to technical exercises and demands;
- integrate levels of movement and changes in scale through body awareness and movement sensitivity in interpreting phrases and spatializing concepts;
- generate informed and imaginative choices in interpreting music with changing rhythms and textures;
- employ an expanding range of movement choices in improvisation and problem-solving tasks and be able to reflect upon these;
- apply and sustain informed curiosity and discipline in independent and collaborative exercises and tasks.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
All of
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
DNCE10031 | Dance Lab 2: Integrated Practices | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
25 |
DNCE10032 | Thinking through Dancing | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
DNCE10019 | Choreographic Process into Performance 2 | Not available in 2024 |
12.5 |
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
Description | Timing | Percentage |
---|---|---|
Class presentation of a set and improvised sequence, equivalent to 1600 words
| Week 4 | 20% |
Voice and Movement exercise, equivalent to 1600 words
| Week 8 | 20% |
Dance Theatre skills integrating voice and movement techniques, equivalent to 2400 words
| Week 12 | 30% |
Written journal, critically reflecting upon and creatively evaluating the student experience
| Week 12 | 30% |
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 75% of all scheduled classes, and submit 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
Coordinator Linda Sastradipradja Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 260 hours Total time commitment 408 hours Teaching period 1 March 2021 to 30 May 2021 Last self-enrol date 12 March 2021 Census date 31 March 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 7 May 2021 Assessment period ends 25 June 2021 Semester 1 contact information
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 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
Last updated: 3 November 2022