ACD307 - Specialised Technique and Dance Performance

Unit details

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Enrolment modes:(B)
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value: 0.125
Unit chair:S Gardner
Prerequisite:ACD204 or equivalent studies approved by the Unit chair.

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Content

Students will undertake regular technique classes which increasingly refer to resources for building kinaesthetic imagination and articulation. These resources can include developmental movement, ideokinesis, and release technique. Composition workshops introduce experimental approaches used by post-modern dance artists in the second part of the twentieth century. Readings in dance history also focus on this period.

Assessment

Ongoing progress and development in contemporary dance technique and contribution to choreographic workshops 35%; two assessed composition assignments 35%; one essay of 2500 words 30%.

Unit Fee Information

Student Contribution Rate*Student Contribution Rate**Student Contribution Rate***Fee rate - Domestic Students Fee rate - International students
$680$680$680$2261$2610

* Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2010
** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2009
*** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2008
**** Fee rate for students who commenced studies from 2005
***** Fee rate for students who commenced studies from 2006
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