Allied Dance Studies 1A

This subject is not offered in 2014.

5 hours per week

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This subject comprises contemporary duo, pas de deux, repertoire (ballet or contemporary), improvisation, pointe and music. Students are required to complete music and to elect 3 units of study from the other 6 units. Music includes the development of rhythmic and aural skills through study of notation, an overview of Western Art Music from the Medieval to the present, awareness of non-Western musical forms and introduction to musical genres, development of instruments, basic notation and conducting. The elective units must be studied sequentially for 2 semesters. Elective units in Allied Dance Studies 1 and 2 can be sequential to allow for specialisation or non-sequential to facilitate breadth in content.

On completion of this subject students should have acquired the following skills:
• The capacity for kinaesthetic awareness
• The ability to move within aesthetic domains
• The facility to dance in particular contemporary movement techniques
• A facility with ballet technique
• The application of theory to practice
• The capacity to synthesise data and evaluate information
• Capacities of imagination, transformation, and interpretation
• The ability to perform

Participation and contribution to course work (55%); performance in an assessment class/es in each elective unit (30%); music examination (15%). Hurdle requirement - 80% attendance.

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

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

• the capacity for kinaesthetic awareness;
• the ability to recognise and move within particular aesthetic domains;
• the capacity to synthesise data and evaluate information;
• the capacity for imaginative, transformative and interpretive activity;
• the ability to perform;
• the application of theory to practice in music, sound generation and composition;
• the capacity for critical thinking;
• the capacity for interpretation and analysis;
• the ability to work in a team.