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Body Time Space and Place (DNCE90013)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Southbank)
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Semester 1
Rheannan Port: port.r@unimelb.edu.au
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This subject addresses the theory and practice of dance in situ. Practices of ‘listening to Country’, dancing-place and ecological dramaturgy are central to the subject and are introduced through site-specific enquiries.
Body trainings that cultivate attunement to Country, earth, air and environment are taught within a residential context. Intercultural understandings in relation to Indigenous, immigrant and settler colonial experiences of place and body, underpin the exploration of different approaches to site-based dance and choreography.
Coming to know a place through movement develops into choreographies of place that frame values, ecological perceptions and reciprocal relations.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- demonstrate creative thinking in applying concepts of place-based knowledge to dance practice;
- engage the theory and practice of site dance including Indigenous approaches, to dancing-place experiments;
- collaborate with a local context and community through a choreographic project in situ;
- integrate concepts and creative tools in developing artistic outcomes;
- research through the senses different qualities and atmospheres of a place;
- critically explore meanings and significance of space and place in relation to dance knowledges;
- apply culturally appropriate methods to creating dance responses to place.
Last updated: 31 January 2024