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

    Dance History and Analysis 2
  • Unit Code

    DAN2135
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Nominal Hours

    72
  • Credit Points

    5
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit involves a conceptual approach to dance performance/activities extending to ethnographical contexts. Its point of departure encompasses the fundamental components of movement, the body, time and space, in order to explore some of the potential knowledge/s generated through dance. The unit extends this enquiry to an initial survey of Australian and Asian dance practises with particular attention to ethnographical contexts, as well as to the particularities of commercial dance forms on film and stage. Emphasis is placed on the concepts in both written and oral formats.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from DAN1035

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded AWD2206

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse selected dance repertoire with an increased conceptual acuity and descriptive facility.
  2. Demonstrate an increased breadth of contextual verbal and audio-visual knowledge of the issues surrounding dance.
  3. Demonstrate fundamental knowledge of the different perceptions of dance for Australian Aboriginal and Asian communities.
  4. Develop a critical approach to the ideas of dance and its works in relation to the social/cultural construction of body, space, time, gender, class and ethnicity.
  5. Engage with and offer innovative suggestions about the role of dance in the current socio-political environment.
  6. Express in both oral and written formats clarity of ideas and concepts.
  7. Show an appreciation of the place of popular genres in the development of western dance.

Unit Content

  1. Commercial entertainment from vaudeville and music halls to Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.
  2. Early modernism and dance artists' relationships with mechanisation and urbanisation.
  3. Expression of ideas and concepts in both written and oral formats.
  4. Social constructions of 'the body,' 'space' and 'time.'
  5. Socio/cultural contexts through studies of dance from world cultures: Aboriginal Australia, Japan, Cambodia, China, India, Korea and Indonesia.
  6. Terms and concepts such as modernism, postmodernism, binary construction, ethnocentricism, nationalism, multiculturalism and cross-culturalism against ideas of corporeality.
  7. The roles played by gender in dance.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, Video analysis, Performance analysis and Independent study.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationSeminar presentation20%
PresentationSeminar presentation30%
Research PaperMajor research paper *50%

* Assessment item identified for English language proficiency

Text References

  • ^ Viala, Jean (1988) Butoh: Shades of Meaning Toyko; Shifunotomo
  • ^ Ackroyd, Peter (1979) Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession London; Thames & Hudson
  • ^ Royce, Anya Peterson (1977) The Anthropology of Dance Bloomington; Indiana University Press
  • ^ Marranca, Bonnie & Dasgupta, Gautam (1991) Interculturism and Performance: Writings from PAJ New York; PAJ Publications
  • ^ Manning, Susan A (1993) Ecstasy and the Demon: Feminism in the Dances of Mary Wigman Berkely; University of California Press
  • ^ Kislan, Richard (1987) Hoofing on Broadway New York; Prentice Hall
  • ^ Jowitt, Deborah (1988) Time and the Dancing Body Berkeley, University of California Press
  • ^ Jordan, Stephanie & Allen, Dave eds. (1993) Parallel Lines: Media Representations of Dance London; John Libby
  • ^ Jagose, Annamaria (1996) Queer Theory Melbourne; Melbourne University Press
  • ^ Hanna, Judith Lynn (1988) Dance, Sex and Gender: Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance and Desire Chicago; Chicago University Press
  • ^ Foster, Susan (1986) Reading Dancing Berkeley; University of California Press
  • ^ Foster, Susan Leigh ed. (1996) Corporealities, Dancing Knowledge, Culture and Power London; Routledge
  • ^ de Mille, Agnes (1980) Dance to the Piper New York; Da Capo
  • ^ Cullberg, B (1987) Dance in a New Dimension - Birgit Cullberg and the TV Ballet Stockholm
  • ^ Burt, Ramsey (1998) Alien bodies: representations of modernity, London; Routledge
  • ^ Banes, Sally (1994) Writing dancing in the age of postmodernism Hanover; University Press of New England
  • ^ Astaire, Fred (1981) Steps in Time New York; Da Capo
  • ^ Thomas, Helen (1995) Dance, Modernity and Culture: Explorations in the Sociology of Dance London; Routledge
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Mark Morris (1992) The Hard Nut UK; NVC Arts
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Zizi, Jeanmarie (1999) Zizi je t'aime UK
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Urban Bush Women (1995) Women's Work, Documentary of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts residency USA; Phoenix Films & Video
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Tracks (1996) Ngapa: Two Cultures One Performance Australia; Burrundi Pictures
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: The Royal Ballet (1994) Mayerling, Kenneth Macmillan choreography UK; Covent Garden Pioneer
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: That's Dancing USA
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Sydney Dance Company (1993) Sensing Australia
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Stuart, Meg No Longer Readymade Germany
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Spring Re-Loaded 4 (1994) Random Dance Company: The Millenarium UK; Place Videos
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Schlemmer, Oskar (1997) Man and Mask: Oskar Schlemmer and the Bauhaus Stage Germany
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: (199?) Sacred Sites: Introduction to Sacred Sites Kimberley Australia; SBS
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: National Theatre Production (1999) Oklahoma UK: BBC
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Merce Cunningham (1977) Event for Television USA
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Matthew Bourne (1996) Swan Lake UK; NVS Arts
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Maguy Marin (1989) Groosland, Documentary and Performance, Dutch National Ballet Netherlands; Marcom Projects
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Korean Dance (1992) The Sound of Millennia: a Korean festival of music and dance
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Kelly & Caron (1951) An American in Paris USA; MGM
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Java Mantu: 3 Dances Indonesia
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Japan (1991) Annual Festivities and Ceremonies: Beliefs in Daily Life Jpan; B & Ci Inc
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Gay Studies (1991) Resonance
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Douglas Wright (1993) Elergy and As It is - a fragment NZ Arts Council
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Dein Perry(1996) Tap Dogs Australia
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: (1996) Dancing on the Edge, vol 4, Elizabeth Streb, Sally Silvers, Laura Dean, Eiko & Koma, Diquis Tiquis, Nucleodanza USA; ADF Video
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: (1993) Dancing 5: Dance Centre Stage USA; RM Arts
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: (1993) Dancing 2: Lord of the Dance USA; RM Arts
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Dance Now (1994) Love Sonnets, Michelle Anne de Mey Belgium
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Dance at Angurugu Australia
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Cullberg Ballet Giselle by Mats Ek UK
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Chunky Move (1999) Corrupted, vid & CD Rom Australia; Cinemedia
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Chinese Dance Dances of the Bronze Bells China
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Chinese Dance Folk Dances from Xianging Province China
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: (2000) Chimera: Circus and Indian Dance SBS
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Cambodian Dance (1999) Dancing for the Gods UK; Marcom Projects
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Cambodia (1993) The Tenth Dancer Australia; Ronin Films
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Butoh (1995) Shijima Stockholm TV
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Butcher, Rosemary Body as Site UK
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Borroloola Dancers Aeroplane Dance Australia; Film Australia
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Bob Fosse Cabaret USA; Star Video
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Bill T. Jones (1996) Still/Here USA
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Barunga Sports and Cultural Festival (1988) Make It Right Australia; SBS
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Baraka: A World Beyond Words UK; Dendy Films
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Bangarra Dance Theatre (1998) Fish Australia; ABC
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Balinese Dance Bali: Mask of Rangda USA; Hartley Film Foundation
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Astaire & Garland (1948) Easter Parade USA, MGM

Journal References

  • Toepfer, Karl (1996) Performing Arts Journal 54 Nudity and Textuality in Postmodern Performance 76-91
  • Ballett International: Tanz Aktull
  • Hayes, Claire (1987) New Dance, 42 New Dance is Part of the Social Process 13-17
  • Daly, Ann ed. (Winter 1988) The Drama Review, 32.4 Movement and Gender: A Roundtable Discussion: Johanna Boyce, Ann Daly, Bill T Jones and Carol Martin 82-101
  • Daly, Ann (1994) Dance Research Journal Isadora Duncan's Dance Theory 24-30
  • Bizot, Richard (1992) Choreography and the Dance 2.3 The Turn-of-the-Century Salome Era: High- and Pop-Culture Variations on the Dance of the Seven Veils 71-87
  • Writings on Dance
  • Studies in Dance History
  • Performance Research
  • Performing Arts Journal
  • JASHM (Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement)
  • Impulse
  • Dancing Times
  • Dance Research Journal
  • Dance Research
  • Dance Now
  • Dance Magazine
  • Dance Europe
  • Dance Chronicle
  • Dance Australia
  • Dance & Dancers
  • Contact Quarterly
  • Choreography and Dance
  • Brolga
  • Kirchman, Kay (1994) Ballett International Tanz Aktuell The Totality of the Body: An Essay on Pina Bausch's Aesthetic 37-44

^ Mandatory reference


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.

DAN2135|1|1

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

    Dance History and Analysis 2
  • Unit Code

    DAN2135
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Nominal Hours

    72
  • Credit Points

    5
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit involves a conceptual approach to dance performance/activities extending to ethnographical contexts. Its point of departure encompasses the fundamental components of movement, the body, time and space, in order to explore some of the potential knowledge/s generated through dance. The unit extends this enquiry to an initial survey of Australian and Asian dance practises with particular attention to ethnographical contexts, as well as to the particularities of commercial dance forms on film and stage. Emphasis is placed on the concepts in both written and oral formats.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from DAN1035

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded AWD2206

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse selected dance repertoire with an increased conceptual acuity and descriptive facility.
  2. Demonstrate an increased breadth of contextual verbal and audio-visual knowledge of the issues surrounding dance.
  3. Demonstrate fundamental knowledge of the different perceptions of dance for Australian Aboriginal and Asian communities.
  4. Develop a critical approach to the ideas of dance and its works in relation to the social/cultural construction of body, space, time, gender, class and ethnicity.
  5. Engage with and offer innovative suggestions about the role of dance in the current socio-political environment.
  6. Express in both oral and written formats clarity of ideas and concepts.
  7. Show an appreciation of the place of popular genres in the development of western dance.

Unit Content

  1. Commercial entertainment from vaudeville and music halls to Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.
  2. Early modernism and dance artists' relationships with mechanisation and urbanisation.
  3. Expression of ideas and concepts in both written and oral formats.
  4. Social constructions of 'the body,' 'space' and 'time.'
  5. Socio/cultural contexts through studies of dance from world cultures: Aboriginal Australia, Japan, Cambodia, China, India, Korea and Indonesia.
  6. Terms and concepts such as modernism, postmodernism, binary construction, ethnocentricism, nationalism, multiculturalism and cross-culturalism against ideas of corporeality.
  7. The roles played by gender in dance.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, Video analysis, Performance analysis and Independent study.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationSeminar presentation20%
PresentationSeminar presentation30%
Research PaperMajor research paper *50%

* Assessment item identified for English language proficiency

Text References

  • ^ Viala, Jean (1988) Butoh: Shades of Meaning Toyko; Shifunotomo
  • ^ Ackroyd, Peter (1979) Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession London; Thames & Hudson
  • ^ Royce, Anya Peterson (1977) The Anthropology of Dance Bloomington; Indiana University Press
  • ^ Marranca, Bonnie & Dasgupta, Gautam (1991) Interculturism and Performance: Writings from PAJ New York; PAJ Publications
  • ^ Manning, Susan A (1993) Ecstasy and the Demon: Feminism in the Dances of Mary Wigman Berkely; University of California Press
  • ^ Kislan, Richard (1987) Hoofing on Broadway New York; Prentice Hall
  • ^ Jowitt, Deborah (1988) Time and the Dancing Body Berkeley, University of California Press
  • ^ Jordan, Stephanie & Allen, Dave eds. (1993) Parallel Lines: Media Representations of Dance London; John Libby
  • ^ Jagose, Annamaria (1996) Queer Theory Melbourne; Melbourne University Press
  • ^ Hanna, Judith Lynn (1988) Dance, Sex and Gender: Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance and Desire Chicago; Chicago University Press
  • ^ Foster, Susan (1986) Reading Dancing Berkeley; University of California Press
  • ^ Foster, Susan Leigh ed. (1996) Corporealities, Dancing Knowledge, Culture and Power London; Routledge
  • ^ de Mille, Agnes (1980) Dance to the Piper New York; Da Capo
  • ^ Cullberg, B (1987) Dance in a New Dimension - Birgit Cullberg and the TV Ballet Stockholm
  • ^ Burt, Ramsey (1998) Alien bodies: representations of modernity, London; Routledge
  • ^ Banes, Sally (1994) Writing dancing in the age of postmodernism Hanover; University Press of New England
  • ^ Astaire, Fred (1981) Steps in Time New York; Da Capo
  • ^ Thomas, Helen (1995) Dance, Modernity and Culture: Explorations in the Sociology of Dance London; Routledge
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Zizi, Jeanmarie (1999) Zizi je t'aime UK
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Urban Bush Women (1995) Women's Work, Documentary of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts residency USA; Phoenix Films & Video
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Tracks (1996) Ngapa: Two Cultures One Performance Australia; Burrundi Pictures
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: The Royal Ballet (1994) Mayerling, Kenneth Macmillan choreography UK; Covent Garden Pioneer
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: That's Dancing USA
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Sydney Dance Company (1993) Sensing Australia
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Stuart, Meg No Longer Readymade Germany
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Spring Re-Loaded 4 (1994) Random Dance Company: The Millenarium UK; Place Videos
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Schlemmer, Oskar (1997) Man and Mask: Oskar Schlemmer and the Bauhaus Stage Germany
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: (199?) Sacred Sites: Introduction to Sacred Sites Kimberley Australia; SBS
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: National Theatre Production (1999) Oklahoma UK: BBC
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Merce Cunningham (1977) Event for Television USA
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Matthew Bourne (1996) Swan Lake UK; NVS Arts
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Mark Morris (1992) The Hard Nut UK; NVC Arts
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Maguy Marin (1989) Groosland, Documentary and Performance, Dutch National Ballet Netherlands; Marcom Projects
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Korean Dance (1992) The Sound of Millennia: a Korean festival of music and dance
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Kelly & Caron (1951) An American in Paris USA; MGM
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Java Mantu: 3 Dances Indonesia
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Japan (1991) Annual Festivities and Ceremonies: Beliefs in Daily Life Jpan; B & Ci Inc
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Gay Studies (1991) Resonance
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Douglas Wright (1993) Elergy and As It is - a fragment NZ Arts Council
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Dein Perry(1996) Tap Dogs Australia
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: (1996) Dancing on the Edge, vol 4, Elizabeth Streb, Sally Silvers, Laura Dean, Eiko & Koma, Diquis Tiquis, Nucleodanza USA; ADF Video
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: (1993) Dancing 5: Dance Centre Stage USA; RM Arts
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: (1993) Dancing 2: Lord of the Dance USA; RM Arts
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Dance Now (1994) Love Sonnets, Michelle Anne de Mey Belgium
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Dance at Angurugu Australia
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Cullberg Ballet Giselle by Mats Ek UK
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Chunky Move (1999) Corrupted, vid & CD Rom Australia; Cinemedia
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Chinese Dance Dances of the Bronze Bells China
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Chinese Dance Folk Dances from Xianging Province China
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: (2000) Chimera: Circus and Indian Dance SBS
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Cambodian Dance (1999) Dancing for the Gods UK; Marcom Projects
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Cambodia (1993) The Tenth Dancer Australia; Ronin Films
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Butoh (1995) Shijima Stockholm TV
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Butcher, Rosemary Body as Site UK
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Borroloola Dancers Aeroplane Dance Australia; Film Australia
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Bob Fosse Cabaret USA; Star Video
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Bill T. Jones (1996) Still/Here USA
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Barunga Sports and Cultural Festival (1988) Make It Right Australia; SBS
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Baraka: A World Beyond Words UK; Dendy Films
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Bangarra Dance Theatre (1998) Fish Australia; ABC
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Balinese Dance Bali: Mask of Rangda USA; Hartley Film Foundation
  • SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE VIDEO Note: Astaire & Garland (1948) Easter Parade USA, MGM

Journal References

  • Contact Quarterly
  • Ballett International: Tanz Aktull
  • Kirchman, Kay (1994) Ballett International Tanz Aktuell The Totality of the Body: An Essay on Pina Bausch's Aesthetic 37-44
  • Hayes, Claire (1987) New Dance, 42 New Dance is Part of the Social Process 13-17
  • Daly, Ann ed. (Winter 1988) The Drama Review, 32.4 Movement and Gender: A Roundtable Discussion: Johanna Boyce, Ann Daly, Bill T Jones and Carol Martin 82-101
  • Daly, Ann (1994) Dance Research Journal Isadora Duncan's Dance Theory 24-30
  • Bizot, Richard (1992) Choreography and the Dance 2.3 The Turn-of-the-Century Salome Era: High- and Pop-Culture Variations on the Dance of the Seven Veils 71-87
  • Writings on Dance
  • Studies in Dance History
  • Performance Research
  • Performing Arts Journal
  • JASHM (Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement)
  • Impulse
  • Dancing Times
  • Dance Research Journal
  • Dance Research
  • Dance Now
  • Dance Magazine
  • Dance Europe
  • Dance Chronicle
  • Dance Australia
  • Dance & Dancers
  • Choreography and Dance
  • Brolga
  • Toepfer, Karl (1996) Performing Arts Journal 54 Nudity and Textuality in Postmodern Performance 76-91

^ Mandatory reference


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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