Choreography 3B

Subject DNCE30004 (2010)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2010.

Credit Points: 6.25
Level: 3 (Undergraduate)
Dates & Locations:

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2010:

Semester 2, Southbank - Taught on campus.
Pre-teaching Period Start not applicable
Teaching Period not applicable
Assessment Period End not applicable
Last date to Self-Enrol not applicable
Census Date not applicable
Last date to Withdraw without fail not applicable


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Time Commitment: Contact Hours: 5 hours per week
Total Time Commitment: 5 hours per week
Prerequisites:

756-320 Choreography 3A
Corequisites: None
Recommended Background Knowledge: None
Non Allowed Subjects: None
Core Participation Requirements: 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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Coordinator

Ms Meredith Blackburn

Contact

Student and Academic Services, Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts, 234 St Kilda Road, Southbank Vic 3006 Tel: 03 9685 9419
Subject Overview:

Dance Making - Students design their own projects in discussion with the supervisor. Students are encouraged to extend their knowledge and choreographic practice in a specific interest area, subject to the availability of resources, staff and student numbers. Students further explore individual movement qualities and create a number of different studies involving such aspects as sound design for dance, creation of dance for video and site specific dance. Students develop skills in production management, stage management, lighting, set and costume design and projection and apply these to the presentation of their choreographic studies.
Objectives:

On completoin of this subject, students should be able to

  • devise own creative projects reflecting clear intentions;
  • develop a personal movement vocabulary and its organisation in space/time;
  • explore, manipulate and extend choreographic phrases;
  • conceptualise and devise site specific choreographic work.
Assessment:

Participation and contribution to course work including satisfactory completion of set tasks (30%); presentation of choreographic project (70%). Hurdle requirement - 80% attendance.
Prescribed Texts: None
Recommended Texts: None
Breadth Options:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.
Fees Information: Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date
Generic Skills:

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

  • 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 work collaboratively;
  • the capacity to recognise and work within aesthetic domains;
  • the ability to use relevant computer software.
Related Course(s): Bachelor of Dance (VCA)

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