Body Works 1

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2012:

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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This subject will enable students to:
• develop an understanding of the structure, function and use of imagery in ideokinetic and releasing practises;
• maximise mechanical balance of the skeletal structure and improve whole body integration;
• improve lumbo-pelvic stability and mobility;
• improve muscle function, reduce muscle imbalance, and facilitate more easeful movement;
• retrain neuro-muscular patterning and coordination and work towards freedom from habituated restrictions and greater connectedness;
• be able to design an ideokinetic process for the investigation of a particular principle within the body in movement;
• acquire a critical vocabulary and analytical approach to the appreciation of artistic dance works;
• articulate and debate the central concepts presented in seminars, in the required readings, video screenings and live performances of artistic dance works;
• develop the capacity to recognise, discern, name and describe the movement components, the form and the relationships between the parts in artistic dance works verbally and in writing.

This subject will enable students to:
• develop an understanding of the structure, function and use of imagery in ideokinetic and releasing practises;
• maximise mechanical balance of the skeletal structure and improve whole body integration;
• improve lumbo-pelvic stability and mobility;
• improve muscle function, reduce muscle imbalance, and facilitate more easeful movement;
• retrain neuro-muscular patterning and coordination and work towards freedom from habituated restrictions and greater connectedness;
• be able to design an ideokinetic process for the investigation of a particular principle within the body in movement;
• acquire a critical vocabulary and analytical approach to the appreciation of artistic dance works;
• articulate and debate the central concepts presented in seminars, in the required readings, video screenings and live performances of artistic dance works;
• develop the capacity to recognise, discern, name and describe the movement components, the form and the relationships between the parts in artistic dance works verbally and in writing.

Mark for physical coursework 30% Comprised of: Attendance 10%; Progress 30%; Standard 30%; Work Ethic 30%

Written critique of 1000 words of live dance performance 15% Due mid semester

Design and present an ideokinetic process for the investigation of a particular principle within the body in movement 15% Due at the end of semester

Essay of 2000 words 40% Due at the end of semester

Hurdle requirements: Students must attend 80% of all scheduled classes and attempt all elements of assessment to be eligible for a pass in this subject.

Adshead-Lansdale, J. (ed.) Dancing Texts; Intertextuality in Interpretation
Albright, A. C. Choreographing Difference; The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance,
Bremser, M. (ed.) Fifty Contemporary Choreographers
Reynolds, N. and McCormick, M. No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completing this subject students will have acquired the following skills:
• the capacity for kinaesthetic awareness;
• the application of theory to practice;
• the capacity to synthesise conceptual ideas and evaluate information;
• capacities of imagination, transformation and interpretation;
• the capacity for critical thinking;
• the capacity to communicate verbally and in writing;
• the ability to work collaboratively.