Faculty of Education and Arts

School: WA 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

    Develop choreography skills
  • Unit Code

    CUACHR403
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Nominal Hours

    40
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to explore and develop choreography in a variety of dance styles for informal presentations by applying elements of shape, space, time and dynamics. Dancers who apply the skills and knowledge outlined in this unit, could be performing the choreography themselves for a dance class or teaching others how to perform the choreography for a non-professional performance.

Elements

  • Analyse choreographic techniques
  • Invent movement material
  • Present informal choreographic tasks
  • Evaluate choreography

Performance Evidence

Performance Evidence Evidence of the ability to: Use practical structural components of movement, phrases and sequences when choreographing dance pieces, Invent movement material, Construct sequences of movement, Devise choreographic work for informal presentation, Document, reflect on and analyse choreography, Use dance terminology correctly. Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided for each of the above points at least once.

Knowledge Evidence

Knowledge Evidence To complete the unit requirements the individual must describe: Structural movement elements that comprise a choreographic work, Role of movement motifs in composition, Composition elements of choreographic dance sequences, Artistic, creative and technical procedures used by well-known dance choreographers, Ways to document or notate dance, Safe dance practices, Explain how dance is a form of communication. Explain how the following composition devices are used to structure dance: Accumulation, Canon, Inversion, Retrograde, Rondo. Describe issues and challenges that arise when composing dance and suggest solutions to address them.

Assessment

GS5 VET GRADING SCHEMA Used for WAAPA Vet only

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.


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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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: WA 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

    Develop choreography skills
  • Unit Code

    CUACHR403
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Nominal Hours

    40
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to explore and develop choreography in a variety of dance styles for informal presentations by applying elements of shape, space, time and dynamics. Dancers who apply the skills and knowledge outlined in this unit, could be performing the choreography themselves for a dance class or teaching others how to perform the choreography for a non-professional performance.

Elements

  • Analyse choreographic techniques
  • Invent movement material
  • Present informal choreographic tasks
  • Evaluate choreography

Performance Evidence

Performance Evidence Evidence of the ability to: Use practical structural components of movement, phrases and sequences when choreographing dance pieces, Invent movement material, Construct sequences of movement, Devise choreographic work for informal presentation, Document, reflect on and analyse choreography, Use dance terminology correctly. Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided for each of the above points at least once.

Knowledge Evidence

Knowledge Evidence To complete the unit requirements the individual must describe: Structural movement elements that comprise a choreographic work, Role of movement motifs in composition, Composition elements of choreographic dance sequences, Artistic, creative and technical procedures used by well-known dance choreographers, Ways to document or notate dance, Safe dance practices, Explain how dance is a form of communication. Explain how the following composition devices are used to structure dance: Accumulation, Canon, Inversion, Retrograde, Rondo. Describe issues and challenges that arise when composing dance and suggest solutions to address them.

Assessment

GS5 VET GRADING SCHEMA Used for WAAPA Vet only

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.


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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