Performance Management

This subject is not offered in 2014.

5 hours per week

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For the purposes of considering requests for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirments for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.
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This subject is delivered through a series of workshops, seminars and lectures to assist students with strategies to achieve optimal performance in dance. Areas of study include performance psychology, communication studies including group dynamics, goal setting and motivational strategies, health and nutrition, injury prevention and management with a focus on safe dance practice.

In order to successfully complete this subject, students are normally expected to undertake additional self-directed individual study for 1 hour per week.

• demonstrate an ability to work cooperatively, harmoniously and imaginatively with choreographers and other dancers;
• perform with a varied range of interpretative and creative skills;
• perform in a wide variety of dance styles;
• demonstate maturity, professionalism, reliability and endurance;
• perform works from the professional dance repertoire;
• articulate the dance making process and structure;
• deploy effective rehearsal and production procedures, techniques and skills involved in the creation and staging of a dance performance;
• apply theatre technology in a creative and flexible way;
• evaluate various legal and ethical considerations that are applicable to the dance profession;
• explore performance procedures and requirements within a variety of venues and contexts.
  
  

Participation and contribution to course work including satisfactory completion of set tasks (60%); written assignments totalling no more than 2000 words (40%). Hurdle requirement - 80% attendance.

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completion of this subject students should have acquired the following:

• the capacity to communicate orally and in writing;
• the ability to access, evaluate and synthesise data and other information;
• the ability to evaluate data;
• the capacity to solve problems.