Body Time Space and Place (DNCE90013)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Southbank)
Overview
| Availability | Semester 1 |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
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
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: 4 March 2025
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Work in progress performative presentation (3000 words equivalent)
| Mid teaching period | 30% |
Documentation Portfolio
| During the assessment period | 30% |
Group devised live performance work in situ. 2-4 students per group (4000 words equivalent)
| During the assessment period | 40% |
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Coordinator Rheannan Port Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 72-hours comprising, workshops, seminars, and tutorials per semester Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 3 March 2025 to 1 June 2025 Last self-enrol date 14 March 2025 Census date 31 March 2025 Last date to withdraw without fail 9 May 2025 Assessment period ends 27 June 2025 Semester 1 contact information
Rheannan Port: port.r@unimelb.edu.au
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Last updated: 4 March 2025
Further information
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Last updated: 4 March 2025