Units
Professional Dance Training 1
Unit code: KDB310
Contact hours: 15 per week
Credit points: 12
Information about fees and unit costs
This unit is designed for you to develop the technical and interpretive dance skills acquired in the first two years of your course to a pre-professional level. Through embodied knowledge, emphasis is placed on specialist and alternative training methods in order to equip you with advanced technical skills; preparing you for the rapidly increasing demands placed on dance practitioners by the professional dance industry.
Availability
| Semester | Available |
|---|---|
| 2013 Semester 1 | Yes |
Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013
Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.
Rationale
This unit will allow you to engage in the experience of advanced technical dance training. In the current artistic climate, it is essential for you to possess a strong command of dance technique (both in ballet and contemporary dance) and associated practices. Through embodied knowledge, training methods must adequately prepare you for the rapidly increasing demands placed on dancers, in order to successfully locate yourself within the dance industry as an emerging professional.
Aims
The aims of this unit are to develop to a pre-professional level the technical and interpretive skills acquired in the first two years of your course. It will enable you to pursue other areas of alternative training within your practice in order to gain strength and flexibility, whilst extending the reach of your practice. Further, it intends that, while maintaining physical fitness, you will increase technical accomplishment, strength, flexibility and stylistic versatility .
Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be able to:
1. Integrate and apply alignment principles in all aspects of movement
2. Execute movement vocabulary with strength, flexibility and control
3. Dance with ease, breadth of movement and developed spatiality whilst manifesting sensitivity in dynamic variance and energy flow
4. Demonstrate a rapport between physicality and musicality
5. Integrate appropriate artistic expression and maturity with dance technique.
Content
This unit addresses content such as:
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
This unit engages with lecturing staff who are specialists germane to their genre specific areas of expertise. The unit combines supervised learning approaches and authentic tasks delivered in purpose-built dance studios and/or industry standard performance venues. Safe dance practice is a requirement for all activities associated with this unit. You are expected to adhere to these industry standards and maintain code of conduct at all times.
Assessment
LATE ASSIGNMENTS
An assignment submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.
Faculty Assessment Information
To access the Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information see the Blackboard site for this unit.FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Description: You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit during technique classes and discussions throughout the semester. Weight: 0%.
Assessment name:
Ballet Tech. Development
Description:
(Formative and Summative) Formative feedback will occur during ballet technique classes throughout the semester. Summative assessment will occur in the form of practical examinations to be assessed by a panel.
A component of the examinations will include unseen movement vocabulary and will include pointe work for women.
Relates to objectives:
1-5
Weight:
40%
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Individual
Due date:
Mid & End Semester
Assessment name:
Contemp. Tech. Development
Description:
(Formative and Summative) Formative feedback will occur during contemporary technique classes throughout the semester. Summative assessment will occur in the form of practical examinations to be assessed by a panel. A component of the examinations will include unseen movement vocabulary.
Relates to objectives:
1- 5
Weight:
40%
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Individual
Due date:
Mid/End Semester
Assessment name:
Progressive Assessment
Description:
(Summative) An assessment of your focus, approach to and application of learning over the semester in alternative training.
Relates to objectives:
1 & 2
Weight:
20%
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Individual
Due date:
Throughout Semester
Academic Honesty
QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.
A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.
Resource materials
There are no set texts for this unit.
Recommended References
Ballet
Bremser, M. (1993) International Dictionary of Ballet, St James Press, Detroit.
Magri, G. (1988) Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Dancing, Dance Books, London.
Ward Warren, G. (1989) Classical Ballet Technique, University of South Florida Press, Tampa.
Contemporary
Banes, S. (1977) Terpsichore in Sneakers, Wesleyan Press, Connecticut.
Cohen, S. J. (1969) The Modern Dance - seven statements of belief, Wesleyan Press, Connecticut.
Marranca, B. and Dasgupta, G. (1999) Coversations on Art and Performance, John Hopkins University Press.
Morrison Brown, J. (1980) The Vision of Modern Dance Dance Books, London.
Other
Green, E. (1977) Beyond Biofeedback, Delacorte Press, New York.
Norberg, U. (2007) Power yoga : an individualized approach to strength, grace, and inner peace, Skyhorse Pub, New York
Schon, D. A. (1983) The Reflective Practitioner: how professionals think in action, Basic Books, New York.
Trechsel, J. (2002) A Morning Cup Of Yoga : one 15-minute routine for a lifetime of health & wellness,
Crane Hill Publishers, Birminghan.
Weeks, M. (2005) The BalleCore Workout : integrating pilates, hatha yoga, and ballet in an innovative exercise routine for all fitness levels, Ballantine Books, New York.
Risk assessment statement
This unit involves physical work primarily in purpose-built dance studios and industry standard performance venues. Full physical participation in any class is subject to compliance with safe dance practice. Physical challenges are an inherent part of dance practice. The development of essential risk-management skills that minimise potential injury is a high priority with all lecturing staff and supervisors. All students are taught safe dance principles as life-long learning skills and it is expected that you apply them in this unit. Due to the athletic nature of dance training, the dance department and its external supervisors will provide the necessary duty of care in emergency situations through its first-aid and health and safety arrangements. Access to on-campus doctors and dance physiotherapists is possible at short notice.
Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
Last modified: 17-Dec-2012
