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Choreography as Research (DNCE90015)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On 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
Overview
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This subject invites understanding of the heterogenous ground through which choreography as research takes place. Through a collaborative and constructive laboratory environment, students engage in choreographic practice and explore artistic identity in relation to the shifting roles of the choreographer.
Workshopping the many possibilities opened by corporeal and conceptual engagements with contemporary movements, discourses, things, theories, technologies, histories, places and praxes choreography is understood as a form of lively address and an interdisciplinary practice.
Students develop their working knowledge of dramaturgy and their capacities for observation, responsiveness and critical awareness in constructing self/peer review and feedback. This subject is delivered through intensive practical workshops, laboratory tasks, feedback sessions, seminars and tutorials.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- develop a distinctive and personal approach to choreography through the application of dance tools and choreographic thinking;
- demonstrate practical, contextual and conceptual skills in addressing dance questions and problem solving;
- apply flexibility choreographic imagination and care in initiating, exploring and organizing bodies, spaces and movement materials in the generation of performance works;
- analyse movement and interpret the significance and meaning of dances and choreographies using written, visual and digital tools;
- apply integrity, initiative and responsibility in personal and group practice;
- refine communication and interpersonal skills in the process of collaborating and producing choreographic material;
- develop reflective practice through peer to peer feedback, self-reflection and feed this forward through creative processes.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
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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5 minute solo performance with accompanying 500 word statement
| Early in the teaching period | 20% |
10 minute collaborative duet performance and 1,000 word dance dramaturgical text
| Mid teaching period | 30% |
20 minute group choreography performance and individual 2,000 word reflective statement. 2-4 students per group.
| During the assessment period | 50% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Coordinator Sandra Parker Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 72-hours comprising, twelve intensive 4-hour workshops over 12 weeks, and twelve 2-hour tutorials per semester. Total time commitment 340 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.
Last updated: 31 January 2024