This core module for full field students, is designed to take students through the process of making a dance production, from initial conception to final performance. The focus of the module is to give students the experience of being in a ‘company' and of working closely with a professional choreographer. In the early part of the module, lectures will focus on the making / devising process of the lecturer / guest choreographer and the practical processes of creating a production, researching subject matter, setting movement material and improvising with movement ideas. Thereafter, groups will work with their choreographer both in class time and during independent study hours to create, rehearse and produce a full-scale dance-based production. Performances will take place in a theatre setting and will be open to the wider university and public.
Will vary depending on the particular production, but will include:
Teaching strategies will depend on the individual choreographers making the work, but initially might include: learning movement phrases, improvisation to create movement material, researching different choreographic methods, responding to tasks and improvising with ideas, words or music.
A number of key skills are addressed as part of this module. In particular students will develop self awareness (taking responsibility for rehearsing part), interpersonal (working with peers / choreographer and accepting, responding to feedback from choreographer), creativity (working with and developing ideas presented by the choreographer).
Definitive UNISTATS Category | Indicative Description | Hours |
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Scheduled learning and teaching | Lecture / seminar | 6 hours |
Scheduled learning and teaching | Practical | 184 hours |
Guided independent study | Independent study | 110 hours |
Total (number of credits x 10) | 300 |
The devising period / rehearsal process will be continuously assessed and will amount to 50% of the overall mark. The assessment of the performance is 50% of overall mark.
Learning Outcome | Assessment Strategy |
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Demonstrate ability to identify the various intellectual and creative choices that need to be made in order to produce a full dance production. | Continuous assessment during the creative process. |
Demonstrate the capacity to take responsibility for your own role within the production and act professionally in relation to it. | Continuous assessment during the creative process. Summative in the performance. |
Work effectively in an ensemble-based production context. | Continuous assessment during the creative process. Summative in the performance. |
Reflect critically and in depth upon the process of creating the production and your own role within it. | Continuous assessment during the creative process. |
Description of Assessment | Definitive UNISTATS Categories | Percentage |
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Coursework | Continuous Assessment | 50 |
PRC | Performance | 50 |
Total (to equal 100%) | 100% |
It IS NOT a requirement that any major assessment category is passed separately in order to achieve an overall pass for the module.
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