School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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  • Unit Title

    Technique 3: Professional Practice
  • Unit Code

    DAN3400
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan PEACOCK

Description

This unit offers practical technique classes at an advanced level of physical and conceptual understanding. Studies in somatic practice, body awareness and refined technical sensibility are contrasted with intensive modules of current contemporary movement trends. Ballet remains an underpinning foundational technique and improvisation, repertoire and duo skills are developed to professional levels.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded AWD2202

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Perform with a clear sense of personal presence, while embodying the stylistic differences of both ballet and a range of contemporary styles and approaches.
  2. Create classroom exercises and use appropriate technical and anatomical terms to physically demonstrate and teach to others.
  3. Share weight confidently with others and use contact improvisation to demonstrate a practical understanding of the mechanics of partnering.
  4. Work with increased complexity and diversity in improvisation tasks, responding to various modes of impulse, including the use of voice or sound.
  5. Perform a wide range of contemporary repertoire at an advanced technical level.

Unit Content

  1. Required skills for a contemporary dancer (Improvisation, Duo, Partnering, Contemporary Repertoire, Ballet and Contemporary technique).
  2. Advanced improvisation as a creative tool for choreography.
  3. The effective use of scores and generating refined responses in relation to self and others in performance.
  4. Advanced techniques of partnering using counterbalance, medium power lifting, through the use of different body parts.
  5. Accurate performance of solo and group repertoire with a clear representation of style and presentation.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Full YearNot Offered308 x 1.5 hour practical classNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will undertake practical classes, work with guest teachers, undertake classroom tasks and individual assignments. In addition, students will attend video sessions and discuss and research work by specific artists.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
WorkshopAssessment of ongoing classroom learning, including reflective practice30%
Creative WorkImprovisation, repertoire and duo tasks30%
PerformancePerformance assessment40%

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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