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Digital Dance (DNCE20037)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
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About this subject
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
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Semester 2
Overview
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This subject critically and creatively addresses questions of space, time and embodiment for the digital age through cultivating tools and know-how in digital literacy. It acknowledges that the primary way in which we engage with dance has turned towards the screen and digital media. Through workshops students experiment with various software, tools and equipment exploring the possibilities digital technologies offer in the development of new performance, modes of expression, dance making strategies, documentation and agency. Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Interactive Design are explored alongside Screen Dance. Students learn skills in tracking, framing, capturing, editing and virtualizing the dancing body. This subject will provide space for students to conceive of the choreographic and artistic possibilities of working with digital agents, produce digital dance artefacts and draw movement traces in virtuality. At the same time, it provides a critical context for apprehending dance in relation to the datafication and quantification of the body and digital surveillance.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- critically and creatively articulate the role of digital technologies in dance creation and performance;
- demonstrate knowledge of digital methods for capturing human movement and transforming it through editing and design processes;
- produce a mixed reality performance with digital agents;
- describe the significance of the technologizing of human movement to the field of dance studies.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
All of
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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DNCE20034 | Dance Lab 3: Repertory Studies | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
25 |
DNCE20035 | Knowing Dance | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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DNCE20019 | Choreographic Process into Performance 4 | 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 |
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Essay: The history, theory and practice of digital dance
| Week 5 | 50% |
Create a mixed reality performance as a group accompanied by a statement, equivalent to 2000 words
| End of semester | 50% |
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 2
Coordinator Megan Beckwith Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 160 hours Total time commitment 204 hours Teaching period 26 July 2021 to 24 October 2021 Last self-enrol date 6 August 2021 Census date 31 August 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 September 2021 Assessment period ends 19 November 2021 Semester 2 contact information
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
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Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
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This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
Last updated: 3 November 2022