Body Time Space and Place (DNCE90013)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Southbank)

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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: 4 March 2025