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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Dance History and Analysis 3
  • Unit Code

    DAN3235
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan Desley PEACOCK

Description

The analysis of dance focuses on current art-form developments, aesthetics, critical writing and world dance fusions. Through examining the breadth and diversity of the profession, including perspectives on the emerging screen and technological developments in dance contexts, the student will be encouraged to form an individual philosophy of dance in contemporary Australian society, acknowledging the cultural, political and economic complexities facing the dance practitioner in the 21st century. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of skills in critical listening, written and oral communication, and basic research, to generate ideas and concepts in both written and oral formats.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from DAN2135

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the inter-relationship and implications of dance and technology in current dance practices with special reference to issues of interactivity and screen dance.
  2. Apply contextualised verbal and audio-visual information to the current dance scene.
  3. Demonstrate a critical awareness of companies, choreographers and dancers operating in the global advantages and restraints of the world today.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge of current experiments in the international dance scene and their contexts.
  5. Express in both oral and written formats clarity of ideas and concepts.
  6. Grasp the processes of fusions in the formation of identity expressed through choreography with special reference to evolutions in African and Spanish/South American dance forms and current notions of hybridity.
  7. Offer imaginative and informed suggestions to work towards the sustainability of cultural practices in the 21st century.
  8. Organise and time manage preparation and presentation of work.

Unit Content

  1. Australian approaches to Community Dance.
  2. Current companies, dance artists and political status of dance within Europe, North America and Australia.
  3. Current processes of identity formation in the hybrid works by artists of first nation peoples and immigrant communities in Asian and Australian contexts.
  4. Evolutionary processes involved in the historical formation of identity in the dance forms of Africa and Spain and their diasporas in Latin America.
  5. Expression of ideas and concepts in both written and oral formats.
  6. Research, planning and critical decision making in assignment preparation and presentation.
  7. The impact of the screen technologies on dance.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars. Video analysis. Performance analysis. 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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationSeminar presentation20%
ReviewTwo dance reviews20%
Research PaperMajor research paper50%
ParticipationEngagement and participation10%

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Dance History and Analysis 3
  • Unit Code

    DAN3235
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan Desley PEACOCK

Description

The analysis of dance focuses on current art-form developments, aesthetics, critical writing and world dance fusions. Through examining the breadth and diversity of the profession, including perspectives on the emerging screen and technological developments in dance contexts, the student will be encouraged to form an individual philosophy of dance in contemporary Australian society, acknowledging the cultural, political and economic complexities facing the dance practitioner in the 21st century. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of skills in critical listening, written and oral communication, and basic research, to generate ideas and concepts in both written and oral formats.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from DAN2135

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the inter-relationship and implications of dance and technology in current dance practices with special reference to issues of interactivity and screen dance.
  2. Apply contextualised verbal and audio-visual information to the current dance scene.
  3. Demonstrate a critical awareness of companies, choreographers and dancers operating in the global advantages and restraints of the world today.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge of current experiments in the international dance scene and their contexts.
  5. Express in both oral and written formats clarity of ideas and concepts.
  6. Grasp the processes of fusions in the formation of identity expressed through choreography with special reference to evolutions in African and Spanish/South American dance forms and current notions of hybridity.
  7. Offer imaginative and informed suggestions to work towards the sustainability of cultural practices in the 21st century.
  8. Organise and time manage preparation and presentation of work.

Unit Content

  1. Australian approaches to Community Dance.
  2. Current companies, dance artists and political status of dance within Europe, North America and Australia.
  3. Current processes of identity formation in the hybrid works by artists of first nation peoples and immigrant communities in Asian and Australian contexts.
  4. Evolutionary processes involved in the historical formation of identity in the dance forms of Africa and Spain and their diasporas in Latin America.
  5. Expression of ideas and concepts in both written and oral formats.
  6. Research, planning and critical decision making in assignment preparation and presentation.
  7. The impact of the screen technologies on dance.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars. Video analysis. Performance analysis. 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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationSeminar presentation20%
ReviewTwo dance reviews20%
Research PaperMajor research paper50%
ParticipationEngagement and participation10%

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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