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Dance Writing, Archives & Documentation (DNCE90016)
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
Availability | Semester 2 |
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Dance Writing, Archives & Documentation focuses on the way dances are transmitted and how we respond to and engage with the traces that remain. It takes advantage of shifts in the last decade in dance historiography that move beyond the Western canon of modern and postmodern dance and the idea of linear temporal progress, to consider dance history through different registers of representation, global geography and space.
Methods of movement writing; oral traditions of dance; cultural heritage; mapping technologies; multi-modal documentation; video capture; living dance archives; notation, scores and diagrams are some of the tools through which to convene relations between performance re-enactment and contemporary dance practices.
In addressing how we talk about past dance with respect to the present, this subject addresses how dance travels and moves between bodies, materialities, media and histories. It will cover areas of focus including choreographic objects, cultural commons, costumes, cultural heritage and performing the archive in relation to museum and gallery collections.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- identify philosophical and historical issues and problems as they arise in dance archiving and documentation;
- demonstrate knowledge of shifts in dance historiography and the archival;
- apply a selected historical dance work and experiment with how it might travel in time and through space;
- perform a re-enactment of a dance work through embodying its traces;
- distinguish new directions in addressing dance archiving and documentation;
- apply diverse methods of scoring to processes of dance documentation;
- develop distinct signature practices in creative documentation of dance and choreography.
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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Presentation
| Mid teaching period | 30% |
Dance Score
| End of the teaching period | 20% |
Portfolio of archival project
| During the assessment period | 50% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Coordinator Amaara Raheem Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 72-hours comprising twelve 3-hour workshops, ten 2-hour seminars, and eight 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
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Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
Last updated: 31 January 2024