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Dance Lab 6: Performance Skills (DNCE30029)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 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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Overview
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This subject develops the technical, creative and performance skills needed to become an individual and versatile dance artist.
Students explore their movement potential through a variety of approaches and are encouraged to take ownership of their training through scheduling rehearsals, research and workshops.
Working independently, with a partner or within a group, they explore, investigate and interrogate dance principles. Energy-work and movement intention are of central importance for a dancer’s presence onstage and are a core focus.
Training in performance skills to develop an energetic and clear body, are entwined with technical skills and the application of movement imagery.
Structural integration, together with skills in how to visually and emotionally interpret movements, facilitates an interplay between action and meaning. Working at this level involves challenges to movement memory through the inhabiting of more demanding movement sequences, scores and improvisational processes.
Classes will include experimentation with the creative and performative potential of class material. Students are encouraged to work in greater depth, employing complex problem-solving and evolving strong understanding of dance techniques including contemporary, urban, Indigenous and ballet.
Teaching and learning also emphasises fundamental social values including respecting and acknowledging others and being responsive and responsible as group participants in a class setting.
This course is underpinned by a complementary programme of body conditioning and dance fitness training.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- mobilise intellectual, physical and creative competencies in the performance of a new program of new dance works;
- perform with a sophisticated understanding of presence through an energized state and clearly structured performance of dance tasks;
- use informed listening and demonstrate social values within a class setting through group cooperation in a creative process;
- qualitatively transform the meaning of movement through the applied understanding of intention and attention.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
All of
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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DNCE30026 | Dance Lab 5: Dance and Music | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
DNCE30027 | Inter-disciplinary Project | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
25 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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DNCE30025 | Dance Technique 6 | No longer available |
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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Participation and engagement with class activities including discussion and peer to peer feedback
| From Week 1 to Week 12 | 10% |
Perform a 4-minute improvisation to a graphic score
| Week 5 | 20% |
Written journal, critically reflecting upon and creatively evaluating the student experience
| End of the teaching period | 20% |
2-hour practical examination of set class material
| End of the teaching period | 50% |
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 75% of all scheduled classes to be eligible for a pass in this subject. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Hurdle requirement: Students must submit all elements of assessment to be eligible for a pass in this subject. For the purposes of meeting this hurdle requirement, each submitted assessment must be complete and constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task. Submitting only part of an assessment (e.g. only the title page) or an assessment on an irrelevant topic will not meet this hurdle requirement. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Coordinator Kialea-Nadine Williams Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 130 hours Total time commitment 204 hours Teaching period 25 July 2022 to 23 October 2022 Last self-enrol date 5 August 2022 Census date 31 August 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 23 September 2022 Assessment period ends 18 November 2022
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
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Type Name Course Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
Last updated: 31 January 2024