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

    Elite Ballet 1
  • Unit Code

    DAN3480
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • 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. Elite Ballet 1 prepares bachelor conversion students for the rigours of a career as a professional ballet dancer. Training includes ballet technique, pointe work, classical repertoire, pas de deux, solos and current contemporary dance techniques.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Perform classical ballet at an advanced technical level with a clear sense of artistry and expression, in both solo and corps de ballet roles.
  2. Embody the stylistic differences in a range of traditional ballet repertoire and contemporary dance works.
  3. Approach partnering with confidence and use appropriate strength and control to achieve required elements of pas de deux.
  4. Work effectively within the corps de ballet, with precise technique, spacing, timing and musicality.

Unit Content

  1. Required skills for a classical ballet career: solos, pas de deux, repertoire and current contemporary skills and techniques.
  2. Advanced techniques of partnering.
  3. Accurate performance of solo and group repertoire with appropriate style and presentation.
  4. Correct musical interpretation and understanding of the precision required when dancing in the corps de ballet.
  5. A working knowledge of improvisation as a creative tool for choreography or creative contribution within a process.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered173 x 1.5 hour practical classNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will undertake practical classes, as well as complete class tasks and research as required, aspects of particular ballets or solos for repertoire studies.

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
WorkshopOngoing classroom learning 60%
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.

DAN3480|1|1