ACD202 - Dance Making: Principles and Processes
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | ACD101, ACP109 or ACD104 |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 2 x 1.5-hour on-campus practical experience (studio) per week 1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week |
Content
This unit develops students’ abilities to create new and responsive contemporary dance through studying dance technique, choreography and contemporary dance contexts locally and globally. Practical classes in contemporary dance technique will build students’ understanding of transfer of weight, anatomical alignment, modulation of dynamics and complexity of rhythms and forms. Choreographic workshops will explore individual physical motivation and imagination for movement creation and organisation. Readings will focus on the conditions, nature, and experiences of contemporary dance, particularly as these relate to significant choreographers from the twenty-first century and their approaches to dance making.
Hurdle requirement
Students enrolled in this unit must participate in 2 practical, dance technique workshops per week, through which they will undertake the practical work for assessment task one.
These practical workshops will enable students to develop physical skills including:
- consistent control and articulation of different parts of the body,
- understanding movement principles such as the use of weight and momentum,
- developing musicality, rhythm and timing, differentiating different movement qualities, understanding safe dance practices, and;
- participating in a process of learning prescribed movement vocabulary from an expert teacher.
The workshops aim to develop a shared appreciation amongst students of the capacities of the human body in dance and in a context in which dance is understood as an artform. This appreciation, and accompanying embodiment of physical skills, will form the creative grounding for choreographic explorations, creative tasks, and practical assessments that occur in this unit. The classes will enable all students to participate in the unit from a position of physical understanding, safety and personal confidence. They will also ask students to engage with standards and expectations as they exist in the professional context.
In order for students to develop physical strength and physically integrate their learning, students must participate consistently in these dance technique workshops. Therefore, students must attend at least 90% of their allotted classes (or make up classes at another time subject to availability).
Unit Fee Information
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