School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Dance History and Analysis 2
  • Unit Code

    DAN2235
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan Desley PEACOCK

Description

In this unit students will explore some of the theoretical, social, political and cultural constructs generated or represented through dance. Particular examples of indigenous, gender-based and intercultural issues are explored through studying the choreography and writing of Australian and Asian dance artists. This is contrasted with the development of commercial dance forms explored through a study of dance on screen and the Broadway musical. Emphasis is placed on the concepts in both written and oral formats.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from DAN1035

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded DAN2135

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Perform an artistic appraisal of a selected dance work demonstrating a breadth of contextual knowledge of the relevant historical, social, political and cultural issues surrounding the dance.
  2. Research and critically analyse dance works showing an appreciation of sociocultural impacts, including different cultural perceptions of and engagement with dance.
  3. Consider and discuss the place of popular genres in the development of western dance.
  4. Communicate ideas and research findings in both oral and written formats.

Unit Content

  1. Expression of ideas and concepts in both written and oral formats.
  2. Social constructions of 'the body', 'space' and 'time'.
  3. Early modernism and dance artists' relationships with mechanisation and urbanisation.
  4. Terms and concepts such as modernism, postmodernism, binary construction, ethnocentricism, nationalism, multiculturalism and cross-culturalism against ideas of corporeality.
  5. Socio/cultural contexts through studies of dance from world cultures: Aboriginal Australia, Japan, Cambodia, China, India, Korea and Indonesia.
  6. Commercial entertainment from vaudeville and music halls to Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.
  7. The roles played by gender in dance.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Full YearNot Offered11 x 1.5 hour ensemblesNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, Video analysis, Performance analysis and Independent study.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCritical Review and research portfolio50%
AssignmentMajor Research Essay30%
PresentationOral presentation20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Dance History and Analysis 2
  • Unit Code

    DAN2235
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan Desley PEACOCK

Description

In this unit students will explore some of the theoretical, social, political and cultural constructs generated or represented through dance. Particular examples of indigenous, gender-based and intercultural issues are explored through studying the choreography and writing of Australian and Asian dance artists. This is contrasted with the development of commercial dance forms explored through a study of dance on screen and the Broadway musical. Emphasis is placed on the concepts in both written and oral formats.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from DAN1035

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded DAN2135

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Perform an artistic appraisal of a selected dance work demonstrating a breadth of contextual knowledge of the relevant historical, social, political and cultural issues surrounding the dance.
  2. Research and critically analyse dance works showing an appreciation of sociocultural impacts, including different cultural perceptions of and engagement with dance.
  3. Consider and discuss the place of popular genres in the development of western dance.
  4. Communicate ideas and research findings in both oral and written formats.

Unit Content

  1. Expression of ideas and concepts in both written and oral formats.
  2. Social constructions of 'the body', 'space' and 'time'.
  3. Early modernism and dance artists' relationships with mechanisation and urbanisation.
  4. Terms and concepts such as modernism, postmodernism, binary construction, ethnocentricism, nationalism, multiculturalism and cross-culturalism against ideas of corporeality.
  5. Socio/cultural contexts through studies of dance from world cultures: Aboriginal Australia, Japan, Cambodia, China, India, Korea and Indonesia.
  6. Commercial entertainment from vaudeville and music halls to Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.
  7. The roles played by gender in dance.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Full YearNot Offered11 x 1.5 hour ensemblesNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, Video analysis, Performance analysis and Independent study.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCritical Review and research portfolio50%
AssignmentMajor Research Essay30%
PresentationOral presentation20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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