Performance 2A

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2009:

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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During the three year course students will work with leading and emerging choreographers on the development and performance of new dance works. Students may also study and perform a range of dance repertoire. This will provide a variety of performance experiences. Performance 2A will culminate in the performance of a dance work as part of the School of Dance mid-year performance season, involving 2nd and 3rd Year students. Lectures in Production Studies (approximately 6 hours per semester) will focus on technical aspects of the theatre, including use of video equipment and lighting effects.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

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

• the capacity for working in a team;
• the ability to work within aesthetic domains;
• the facility to perform;
• the capacity for kinaesthetic awareness;
• the ability to interpret and analyse;
• the capacity to communicate in oral and written forms.