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 there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Create and perform complex dance pieces
  • Unit Code

    CUACHR511
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Nominal Hours

    50
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan Desley PEACOCK

Description

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to create and perform complex solo or ensemble dance pieces for formal presentations. The unit applies to those who apply dance composition and performance skills in class work, rehearsals, auditions, and performance situations. This includes collaborating with and taking direction from others. Responsibility and autonomy are required to create dance pieces that reflect a choreographer’s individual style. No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Elements

  • 1. Plan dance pieces
  • 2. Compose dance pieces
  • 3. Create production elements to accompany dance pieces
  • 4. Present dance pieces in a formal setting
  • 5. Evaluate complex dance pieces

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Vet FullNot Offered21 x 1.5 hour ensemblesNot Offered
Vet FullNot Offered21 x 1.5 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Performance Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to: plan, develop and perform at least two complex solo and/or ensemble dance pieces of a high compositional standard. In the course of the above, the candidate must: combine chosen dance style with creative movements incorporate other artists or dance forms manipulate own ideas and movement elements produce a documented evaluation of the dance creation process collaborate with others involved in the choreographic and performance process.

Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of: fundamental elements of composition key elements of movement and dance and how they are choreographed process for organising resources and preparing a space for performance methods for undertaking choreographic tasks and analysis process for notating dance choreographic devices and structures and how they are used when creating choreography safe dance practices choreographic concepts, including: o collage o cycles o narrative themes o sequencing o transitions health and safety policies and procedures relevant to the dance environment strategies to evaluate and respond to feedback to improve creation and performance of complex dance pieces issues and challenges that arise when creating and performing complex dance pieces and how to address them.

Assessment

Skills in this unit must be demonstrated in a workplace or simulated environment where the conditions are typical of those in a working environment in this industry. This includes access to: performance space with suitable flooring props and equipment required to demonstrate the performance evidence interaction with others required to demonstrate the performance evidence. Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational education and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.

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 School Progression Panel.


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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

  • Unit Title

    Create and perform complex dance pieces
  • Unit Code

    CUACHR511
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Nominal Hours

    50
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan Desley PEACOCK

Description

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to create and perform complex solo or ensemble dance pieces for formal presentations. The unit applies to those who apply dance composition and performance skills in class work, rehearsals, auditions, and performance situations. This includes collaborating with and taking direction from others. Responsibility and autonomy are required to create dance pieces that reflect a choreographer’s individual style. No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Elements

  • 1. Plan dance pieces
  • 2. Compose dance pieces
  • 3. Create production elements to accompany dance pieces
  • 4. Present dance pieces in a formal setting
  • 5. Evaluate complex dance pieces

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Vet FullNot Offered21 x 1.5 hour ensemblesNot Offered
Vet FullNot Offered21 x 1.5 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Performance Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to: plan, develop and perform at least two complex solo and/or ensemble dance pieces of a high compositional standard. In the course of the above, the candidate must: combine chosen dance style with creative movements incorporate other artists or dance forms manipulate own ideas and movement elements produce a documented evaluation of the dance creation process collaborate with others involved in the choreographic and performance process.

Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of: fundamental elements of composition key elements of movement and dance and how they are choreographed process for organising resources and preparing a space for performance methods for undertaking choreographic tasks and analysis process for notating dance choreographic devices and structures and how they are used when creating choreography safe dance practices choreographic concepts, including: o collage o cycles o narrative themes o sequencing o transitions health and safety policies and procedures relevant to the dance environment strategies to evaluate and respond to feedback to improve creation and performance of complex dance pieces issues and challenges that arise when creating and performing complex dance pieces and how to address them.

Assessment

Skills in this unit must be demonstrated in a workplace or simulated environment where the conditions are typical of those in a working environment in this industry. This includes access to: performance space with suitable flooring props and equipment required to demonstrate the performance evidence interaction with others required to demonstrate the performance evidence. Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational education and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.

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 School Progression Panel.


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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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