Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 2 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 that is pitched at a professional level. In the current artistic climate, it is essential for you to possess a strong command of dance technique and artistry (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. Your training in this unit culminates with unseen practical examinations, providing you with a real life experience of an audition process.

Aims

The aim of this unit is to:

• Develop to a professional level the technical and interpretive skills acquired in KDB310 Professional Dance Training 1.


• Enable you to continue to pursue other areas of alternative training within your practice in order to gain strength and flexibility, whilst extending the reach of your practice.


• Persist in maintaining physical fitness and increased technical accomplishment, strength, flexibility and stylistic versatility during the course of the semester

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to:
1. Be adaptable to, and retain, new forms of complex movement vocabulary whilst integrating and applying correct alignment principles.
2. Execute complex movement vocabulary whilst demonstrating sophisticated artistry through the integration of movement range, dynamics, musicality and appropriate artistic expression with dance technique.
3. Display commitment and focus to all areas of training associated with this unit.

Content

This unit addresses content such as:

• Ballet technique (pitched at a professional company class level)


• Contemporary technique (pitched at a professional company class level)


• Alternative training comprising advanced yoga, plus one or more of the following additional training methods - martial arts, capoeira, acrobatics, tumbling, circuit training, dance aquatics training

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

This unit engages with lecturing staff who are specialists germane to their genre specific areas of expertise. Through a multitude of lecturers (on a rotating basis) you will be exposed to more than one style in any given genre. This will allow you the opportunity to focus on adaptability, ensuring that your skills in this area are developed. 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.

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 complete Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information please refer to 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%

You will be awarded a final grade on a 1 to 7 scale.

Assessment name: Examination (practical)
Description: Summative assessment will occur in the form of an unseen practical dance technique class, which will be assessed by a panel.
Relates to objectives: 1 & 2
Weight: 45%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Mid Semester

Assessment name: Examination (practical)
Description: Summative assessment will occur in the form of an unseen practical dance technique class, which will be assessed by a panel.
Relates to objectives: 1 & 2
Weight: 45%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End Semester

Assessment name: Demonstration
Description: (Formative and Summative) An assessment of your focus, approach to and application of learning over the semester in Alternative Training.
Relates to objectives: 3
Weight: 10%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Throughout the SEM

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

Required Text:
There are no required 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) Conversations 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, Birmingham.
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: 27-Mar-2013