Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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• Unit Title

  Secondment and Industry Placement

• Unit Code

  DAN3120

• Year

  2016

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  1

• Credit Points

  10

• Full Year Unit

  Y

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

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Description

This unit is designed to facilitate the transition from the institution to the workplace. As such it is important that students assume a level of personal responsibility in researching and selecting potential secondment placements. While many students select professional or semi-professional companies, students are encouraged to think about a broad range of options including service organisations, teaching positions, choreographic mentorships and community dance projects. This is an opportunity to benchmark and evaluate performance in relation to others in the workplace. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of skills in critical listening, written and oral communication, and basic research, to generate ideas and concepts in both written and oral formats. The importance of physical, social and cultural sustainability relating to artform practice and professional career paths is also embraced in this unit through: the choice or repertoire; duty of care in public performance environments; engagement with industry partners; building social and cultural confidence via exposure to diverse performance environments locally, nationally, regionally and internationally.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Analyse and assess the skills required in particular professional roles.
2. Appreciate the breadth of the dance community and the broad range of roles and jobs people perform.
3. Communicate and liaise effectively with various sectors of the dance community.
4. Demonstrate development in literacy and research skills.
5. Demonstrate initiative in the work place to develop networking skills.
6. Demonstrate work place independence and self-discipline.
7. Express in both oral and written formats clarity of ideas and concepts.
8. Integrate professional attitudes in the workplace at all times and to respond to key features in the workplace environment appropriately.
9. Organise, research and time manage preparation and presentation of work.

Unit Content

1. Expression of ideas and concepts in both written and oral formats.
2. Funding structures for the arts - the Australia Council, state funding bodies, community and council structures and private endowments.
3. Performance venues.
4. Research planning and critical desision making in assignment preparation and presentation.
5. The Australian dance context - companies (national, state and local). The definitions and organisational differences between these companies.
6. The independent artist.
7. The links between the profession and education - the dance-in-education company.
8. The role and function of the company's/ organisation's board - responsibilities and liabilities.
9. The role of service organisations in the arts - the MEAA and Ausdance.
10. The roles and functions of company staff members - artistic director, managers, publicists.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminar discussions, Performance analysis, Analysis of workplace protocols and conventions.

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.

Text References

• Minton, Sandra Cerney. (1997) Choreography: a basic approach using improvisation, 2nd ed. Human Kinetics Publishers, Champaign IL.
• Adams, Kathleen, S. (1986). Communication at Work? Listening, Speaking, Writing and Reading, Prentice Hall International Editions.
• Albright, Ann Cooper. (1997) Choreographing Difference: The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance, University Press of New England, Hanover.
• Banes, S., (1994), Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism, Wesleyan University Press, New England, Hanover.
• Beall, C. (1993), The Art of Self Promotion: Successful Promotion by Dancers & Choreographers. Allen & Unwin, Sydney
• Birringer, Johannes. (1998) Media & Performance: Along the Borde, John Hopkins University Press, Maryland.
• Blom, A. (1988) The Moment of Movement, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburg, Pa, USA.
• Bordo, Susan. (1993) Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body, University of California Press, Berkeley.
• Caspersen, Dana. (2000) Choreography and Dance: William Forsythe, 5.3, 25-40
• Desmond, Jane C ed. (2001) Dancing desires: choreographing sexualities on and off the stage, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.
• Foster, Susan Leigh ed. (1996) Corporealities, Dancing Knowledge, Culture and Power, Routledge, London.
• Hay Deborah. (1994) Lamb at the Altar: The Story of a Dance, Duke University Press, Durham.
• Hayes, E. (1993) Dance Composition and Production, 2nd Edition, Princeton Book Co., Pennington, N.J.
• Hillis, Crusader, ed. (1998) Heritage and Heresy: Green Mill Papers 1997, Ausdance, ACT.
• Jones, Bill T. & Zane, Arnie. (1989) Body Against Body: the dance and other collaborations of Bill T. Jones & Arnie Zane, Station Hill Press, New York.
• Kreemer, Connie ed. (1987) Further Steps:Fifteen choreographers on modern dance. Harper and Row, New York.
• Maletic,Vera. (1987) Body - Space - Expression, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin
• Mettler, B. (1980) The Nature of Dance As A Creative Art Activity, Mettler Studios Inc, Tucson, Arizona.
• Radborn, Jennifer & Fraser, Margaret (1996). Arts Management ? A Practical Guide, Allen and Unwin.
• Ruyter, Nancy Lee Chalfa. (1979) Reformers and Visionaries: The Americanization of the Art of Dance, Dance Horizons, New York.
• Shapiro, Sherry B. ed. (1998) Dance, Power and Difference, Human Kinetics Publishers, Champaign, Il.
• Stanton, Nicki (1996). The Business of Communication, Pan Books.
• Tufnell, Miranda & Crickmay, Chris. (1993 ed) Body Space Image: Notes Towards Improvisation and Performance, London, Dance Books.
• Winearls, Jane. (1990) Choreography, the art of the body: an anatomy of expression, Dance Books, London.
• VIDEOS:
• Baryshnikov et Tharp. Sinatra Songs
• Bausch, Pina. Un Jour Pina a demande, Director Chantal Ackerman, France
• Bill T.Jones. Still/Here, USA, 1996.
• Charlebois, Joanne & Vasselin, Harold. Carnets de traversee, Quais Ouest;
• Chunky Move, CORRUPTED, video & CD Rom, Australia, Cinemedia, 1999.
• Dance Now, Beach Birds for Camera, Cunningham, USA, 1994
• Dance Now, Five Shorts 4 Tokens:duo, Le peau, Still You & Courzand; Bergen 1995
• Davies, Siobhan. Wanting to tell stories. UK,
• Dove, Ulysses. Two by Dove, UK BBC/RM Arts, 1995
• DV8 Physical Theatre. Enter Achilles, UK, RM Arts, 1996.
• DV8 Physical Theatre. (1990) Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men, Millennium Production with DV8 Physical Theatre for LWT.C, London.
• DV8 Physical Theatre. (1992) Strange Fish, Arts Council of Gt Britain, London.
• DV8 Physical Theatre. (1996) Enter Archilles, A DV8 Films production for the BBC in association with RM Arts, London.
• DV8 Physical Theatre. Never Again, Lloyd Newson, Songbird Production Arts Council of Britain
• Healey, Sue. Slipped: Microdance, Australia, ABC, 1998.
• Interviews with Siobhan Davis, Lloyd Newson and Ian Spink (1989) National Resource Centre for Dance, Surrey University, UK.
• Jean, Rodrigue & Tafel, Tedi. La Deroute, Netherlands, editions a voir, 1990-1.
• Making Dances: Seven post-modern choreographers. (1980) Blackwood Productions, New York.
• Monk Meredith. (1983) Turtle Dreams. MGBH Educational Foundation.
• Nederlands Dans Theater 1. Petit Mort & Sarabande, Jiri Kylian, UK, SBS, 1999.
• Rosas. Achterland, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Netherlands, editions a voir, 1993.
• Russell Maliphant, Critical Mass, Straight Up, UK, BBC, 1999.
• Spring Re-Loaded 4. Random Dance Company: The Millenarium, UK, Place Videos, 1994.
• Spring Re-loaded 4. Scag + Memories + No shade + Maze + -- With stream Jeremy James, Jo Chandler & Company UK, Place Videos, 1998.
• Spring Re-loaded 4. Swinger, Yolande Snaith Dance Theatre, UK, Place Videos, 1998.
• Stuart, Meg. No Longer Readymade, Germany.
• The Collaborators: John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Robert Rauchenberg. (1987) Cunningham Dance Foundation, NY.
• Twyla Tharp/David Byrne Co Prod. The Catherine Wheel BBC/Catherine Wheel Inc with National Video Corp and WNET/Thirteen.
• Vandekeybus, Wim. Roseland, Ultima Vez, Belgium
• Warren, Leigh & Bourne, Matthew. Shimmer and Interview with Bourne, Australia, ABC, 1999
• PERIODICALS:
• Contact Quarterly
• Dance Australia
• Dancing Times
• Choreography & Dance
• Ballett International
• Dance Magazine
• Writings in Dance
• TDR - The Drama Review
• Dance Europe

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