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

As emerging performance artists you need to be able to successfully realise the creative process through to public performance. This experience will familiarise you with production needs and standards in the Australian Dance industry and give you the opportunity to learn how to create and produce your own artistic work in preparation for entry to the industry.

Aims

This unit aims to develop your choreographic process and extend your artwork through collaboration with other arts disciplines and technologies where relationships have already been initiated. It will also teach you how to produce your work in a theatrical venue. This is the final unit of study in choreography in your course and offers you the opportunity to experience the process of developing a work from its inception to public performance.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to :
1. Demonstrate confidence and innovation in articulating and exploring ideas through the creative processes of dance making.
2. Demonstrate clear choreographic intention in your use of dance/movement as artwork.
3. Reflect and analyse personal performance work, its processes, vocabularies and content.

Content

This unit involves creating a major piece of choreography. Your studio process will be supervised and you will be coached through the process of producing your work to a public performance standard. This work is to be performed in the discipline's New Moves season in the Woodward Theartre.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

You will have formal class times where a range of activities may take place - video analysis, workshops, informal discussion, critical feedback session and production meetings for New Moves. Reading material will augment these sessions as required.

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
You will be given feedback in studio showings and one on one in the rehearsal studio after the viewing of work prior to the work being performed. Weight 0%

Assessment name: Performance
Description: (Summative) Choreographic project in performance (rehearsals through to performance will be evaluated). You will either create and produce a piece of choreography or engage as a lead performer in a choreographic work as per prior arrangement with the lecturer concerned for, where possible, public presentation.
Relates to objectives: 1,2
Weight: 80%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Mid-End September

Assessment name: Written Submission
Description: (Summative) Write a short paper (800) words supporting your work and critically analyzing the outcome.
Relates to objectives: 2, 3
Weight: 20%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End of 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

Resource materials will be individually focussed to each student's own project needs.

Recommended References
References will be tailored to the individual's needs.

Risk assessment statement

The study in this unit involves physical training in purpose-built dance studios and industry standard performance venues. Full physical participation in any class / rehearsal is subject to compliance with safe dance practice. Physical challenges are an inherent part of dance training. The development of essential risk-management skills that minimise potential injury is a high priority with all lecturing staff. All students are taught safe dance principles as life-long learning skills and it is expected that they apply them in this unit. Due to the athletic nature of dance training, the dance Discipline provides the necessary duty of care in emergency situations through its first-aid and health and safety officers at all venues in which you are required to participate in this unit. 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: 09-Apr-2013