Choreography 2B

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2009:

Choreography 2A

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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Choreography 2B examines artistic dance practice through an integrated approach to practical, studio-based dance-making activities, seminars and research. Two 1.5-hour studio-based classes each week focus on advanced analysis of the relationship between form and content in choreographic structures and the capacity to manipulate movement, spatial environment and music/soundscape. The relationship of dance composition to musical scores and soundscapes will be analysed. Skills in direction of a group will be developed. A one-hour seminar in Dance Analysis each week will examine post-modernism and other trends in dance practice into the twenty first century. There will be reference to dance on film, video and in live performance as well as readings from source material, philosophical and aesthetic writings and dance critiques.

Participation and contribution to course work including satisfactory completion of set tasks (30%); Practical and written assignments (including a log book), totalling no more than 2000 words (70%). Hurdle requirement - 80% attendance.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

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

• the ability to create and organise aesthetic material;
• the ability to exercise imaginative and transformative processes;
• the ability to solve problems;
• the capacity to apply theory to practice in the creation of artistic work;
• the capacity for critical thinking;
• the ability to access data and other information from a range of sources;
• the capacity to interpret, analyse, evaluate and synthesise data;
• the capacity to communicate orally and in writing;
• the ability to work collaboratively;
• the capacity to recognise and work within aesthetic domains.