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Choreography as Research (DNCE90015)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Southbank)

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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: 9 February 2024