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

    Performance 3
  • Unit Code

    DAN3222
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    25
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan Desley PEACOCK

Description

This is a professional practice unit providing an enhanced understanding of performance requirements in ballet and contemporary dance utilising the student's organisational, creative, and technical knowledge with concentrated experience in dance training, team work and choreography that culminates in a public performance. The unit is designed to simulate professional activities aiding the transition between the institution and the workplace. The importance of physical, social and cultural sustainability relating to artform practice and professional career paths is also embraced in this unit through: the choice of repertoire; customer service and duty of care in public performance environments; engagement with industry partners; building social and cultural confidence via exposure to diverse performance environments local, nationally, regionally and internationally.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from DAN2122

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Clearly interpret the intention of the choreographic work and demonstrate it's artistic and stylistic nuances.
  2. Demonstrate a mature and confident contribution to the creative process and performance of an artistic project.
  3. Demonstrate a professional work ethic in rehearsals and performance.
  4. Demonstrate ability to perform given choreography in the following groupings: solo, duet, trio, quartet and large ensemble groups.
  5. Demonstrate appropriate rehearsal practices and procedures and the associated production requirements associated with performance.
  6. Demonstrate knowledge of performance skills through public performance.
  7. Execute rhythmic and spatial precision in performance.
  8. Integrate and transfer technical skills learned in the classroom and apply these to a rehearsal and performance situation.
  9. Integrate collaborative and "team" skills and the ability to perform as a member of an ensemble in a variety of settings.

Unit Content

  1. The works and choreographers selected for production will represent a diversity and range of style. The works selected will represent a balance of existing repertoire and new works that are choreographed on the dancers by staff or guest artists. Normally students will perform in 3 public seasons per year. Each season is a simulated professional experience involving a team of people from production and design. A wide range of contrasting rhythmic and a-rhythmic structures in class work and performance. Presentation of complex culturally specific rhythmic patterns, eg Indian and Spanish dance. Transforming mathematical structures into meaningful musical phrasing and its integration into performance.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Full YearNot Offered35 x 3.5 hour ensemblesNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Critiques/reviews. Practical classes/workshops. Video sessions and analysis. Rehearsals. Performances. Logs/Journals/Work Books. Discussion.

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
PerformancePerformance50%
Creative WorkChoreographic process50%

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.

DAN3222|1|1

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

    Performance 3
  • Unit Code

    DAN3222
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    25
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan Desley PEACOCK

Description

This is a professional practice unit providing an enhanced understanding of performance requirements in ballet and contemporary dance utilising the student's organisational, creative, and technical knowledge with concentrated experience in dance training, team work and choreography that culminates in a public performance. The unit is designed to simulate professional activities aiding the transition between the institution and the workplace. The importance of physical, social and cultural sustainability relating to artform practice and professional career paths is also embraced in this unit through: the choice of repertoire; customer service and duty of care in public performance environments; engagement with industry partners; building social and cultural confidence via exposure to diverse performance environments local, nationally, regionally and internationally.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from DAN2122

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Clearly interpret the intention of the choreographic work and demonstrate it's artistic and stylistic nuances.
  2. Demonstrate a mature and confident contribution to the creative process and performance of an artistic project.
  3. Demonstrate a professional work ethic in rehearsals and performance.
  4. Demonstrate ability to perform given choreography in the following groupings: solo, duet, trio, quartet and large ensemble groups.
  5. Demonstrate appropriate rehearsal practices and procedures and the associated production requirements associated with performance.
  6. Demonstrate knowledge of performance skills through public performance.
  7. Execute rhythmic and spatial precision in performance.
  8. Integrate and transfer technical skills learned in the classroom and apply these to a rehearsal and performance situation.
  9. Integrate collaborative and "team" skills and the ability to perform as a member of an ensemble in a variety of settings.

Unit Content

  1. The works and choreographers selected for production will represent a diversity and range of style. The works selected will represent a balance of existing repertoire and new works that are choreographed on the dancers by staff or guest artists. Normally students will perform in 3 public seasons per year. Each season is a simulated professional experience involving a team of people from production and design. A wide range of contrasting rhythmic and a-rhythmic structures in class work and performance. Presentation of complex culturally specific rhythmic patterns, eg Indian and Spanish dance. Transforming mathematical structures into meaningful musical phrasing and its integration into performance.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Full YearNot Offered35 x 3.5 hour ensemblesNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Critiques/reviews. Practical classes/workshops. Video sessions and analysis. Rehearsals. Performances. Logs/Journals/Work Books. Discussion.

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
PerformancePerformance50%
Creative WorkChoreographic process50%

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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