DANC2102 Dance Workshop and Theory 5

2019

4.5

20 x 8-hour workshops per semester

1 Admission into BCADN-Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance)
2 DANC2100 - Dance Workshop and Theory 3
Must Satisfy: (1 and 2)

Assignment(s), Practical work

Students will be introduced to theoretical approaches to enable the analysis, interpretation, evaluation and contextualising of dance works in the 20th and 21st Centuries. The role of dance writers and critics in documenting and communicating dance will be explored. Modern and Postmodern dance innovators and their works will be studied and compared.

Students will examine issues such as gender, popular culture, and social cultural issues, both through a critical investigation of the history of dance, but also through the development of acting skills though which these, and other, ideas and issues are presented to an audience.

Through further exploration of how dancers represent these ideas through performance, they will continue to develop health and fitness tools for a career as a professional dancer.

This topic aims to develop:

• the ability to research, analyse, interpret and evaluate dance works, both the student’s own and others
• greater proficiency and versatility in writing about dance and in discussing ideas in an academically appropriate manner
• an appreciation of the dancer as actor, and the multi- disciplinary nature of current dance/theatre practice.
• an increased ability to rehearse and performance in a safe manner
• knowledge of the movement disciplines of Yoga which engender efficient, integrated mind/body use.

On completion of this topic students will be able to:

• communicate both verbally and in writing issues related to dance works using the skills of research, critical analysis, observation, description, interpretation, and evaluation
• discuss acting techniques employed in dance, in a range of performance scenarios
• Articulate knowledge of the processes of theatre making.
• demonstrate the ability to incorporate safe training and performance methods into their work