DANCE201-21A (HAM)

Choreographing Dance

15 Points

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Division of Arts Law Psychology & Social Sciences
School of Arts
Theatre Studies and Dance

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Convenor(s)

Karen Barbour

Karen Barbour
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karen.barbour@waikato.ac.nz

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Paper Description

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This paper offers students an opportunity to experience and critically consider the roles of movement in specific places and sites such as urban environments, public foyers and recreational facilities ,and gardens. Drawing upon their own movement experiences and knowledge students will actively participate in activities, creative process and choreographic tasks to investigate place-making and community, and to create events, interventions, trails and performances.
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Paper Structure

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This paper is taught through 'workshops' that combine practical dance classes, lecture/discussions and rehearsals. All scheduled hours are timetabled in the Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts Dance Studio (PA.G.03). Students should attend all 4 scheduled hours each week.

Important points to note about learning in dance:

1. Learning in dance is embodied – that is, you have to be present and actively participating in movement to learn in this paper. Students are thus required to attend and participate in all 'workshops'.

2. Please come to all 'workshops' with pens, Creative Journal and paper outline, AS WELL AS a plastic water bottle and appropriate clothing for dance. (Bare feet, comfortable long shorts, leggings or track pants, lose t-shirts or long sleeved tops and appropriate underwear. Please avoid socks, leotards, short shorts or rugby shorts, and any clothing with extra zips or studs.)

3. Some 'workshops' will involve movement outside around the campus and students will be advised to bring additional clothing and footwear suitable for outside work in variable weather conditions. These 'workshops' will begin in the Dance Studio and then move to other places and sites.

4. Students must switch cell phones to silent mode and refrain from using cellphones during all 'workshops'. The only exceptions are when students have arranged specifically with the lecturer to have the cellphone on for an important purpose (such as caregivers needing to be contactable because of unwell children), or if a creative or rehearsal task set by the lecturer requires use of cellphones to play music or take photographs.

5. All students should endeavour to conduct themselves appropriately in all activities, demonstrating effective personal self-management and responsibility through workshops, rehearsals and in relation to protocols for performance.

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Learning Outcomes

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Students who successfully complete the course should be able to:

  • demonstrate developed embodied knowledge of dance through engaging in a range of activities and demonstrating respect for diversity of movement experiences and forms
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  • articulate enhanced understandings of dance through reflection and critique using relevant readings, research and discussions
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  • investigate improvisation techniques, choreographic principles and performance practices and apply these in the dance studio, theatre and in unconventional places and sites
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  • investigate and communicate understandings of interdisciplinary notions of place and site, such as urban environments, public foyers and recreational facilities and gardens
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  • work both independently to demonstrate developed self-management and responsibility, and work collaboratively to cooperate, make decisions and resolve challenges in all activities
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Assessment

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The Two Square Metres Assessment (in a specific campus site or place) will occur during scheduled workshop hours. However, the Ensemble Dance (public performance in a local site or place) may occur outside of workshop hours on a date and time negotiated with students, requiring additional hours during Study Week.

During busy rehearsals and performance times, please ensure that you have cleared your schedule of work, family and social commitments so that you can be fully present for performances. Please note that appropriate conduct is expected of all students during these busy times.

Some activities in workshop and some assessments may be recorded on video for the purposes of internal student, staff and course reflection and assessment. Recorded material will not be used in any other forum without prior permission.

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Assessment Components

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The internal assessment/exam ratio (as stated in the University Calendar) is 100:0. There is no final exam. The final exam makes up 0% of the overall mark.

The internal assessment/exam ratio (as stated in the University Calendar) is 100:0 or 0:0, whichever is more favourable for the student. The final exam makes up either 0% or 0% of the overall mark.

Component DescriptionDue Date TimePercentage of overall markSubmission MethodCompulsory
1. Dance Worksheet
19 Mar 2021
12:00 PM
7
  • Hand-in: In Lecture
2. Two Square Metres
16 Apr 2021
2:00 PM
30
  • Other: Site-specific dance
3. Essay on Choreographing Places and Sites
3 May 2021
4:00 PM
30
  • Online: Submit through Moodle
4. Ensemble Dance
8 Jun 2021
No set time
33
  • Other: Performance during study week
Assessment Total:     100    
Failing to complete a compulsory assessment component of a paper will result in an IC grade
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Required and Recommended Readings

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Required Readings

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In this paper you will use ­books, journal articles and academic materials which are available electronically or in print from the University Library.There will be no costs for accessing any of the required materials.

Key and supplementary readings are provided via the Waikato Reading List for which there is a link within the Moodle site for this paper. The list of readings below is for readings allocated to each week.

Olsen, A. (2014). Introduction. Dancing in a new place, in The place of dance: A somatic guide to dancing and dance making, (pp. xvii–xix). Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.

Kloetzel, M., & Pavlik, C. (2009). Introduction, in Site dance: Choreographers and the lure of alternative spaces, (pp. 1–24). University Press of Florida.

Wattchow, B. & Brown, M. (2011). The case for place, in A pedagogy of place: outdoor education for a changing world, (pp. 51–76). Clayton, Vic: Monash University Publishing.

Olsen, A. (2002). Day One: Basic Concepts, in Body and earth (pp.2-5). Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England [for] Middlebury College Press.

Olsen, A. (2014). Space and place, in The place of dance: A somatic guide to dancing and dance making, (pp. 112–119). Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.

Geyh, P. (2006). Urban free flow: A poetics of parkour. Media Culture Journal, 9(3), 4. Available at: http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0607/06-geyh.php.

Somdahl-Sands, K. (2006). Triptych: dancing in Thirdspace. Cultural Geographies, 13(4), 610–616. doi: 10.1191/14744740cgj380oa.

Hunter, V. (2007). Getting lost: Site-specific performance and re-location. Performance Research, 12(2), 31–34. doi: 10.1080/13528160701554592.

Kiek, S. (2009). Shifting perceptions, moving urban landscapes. Available at: http://ausdance.org.au/articles/details/shifting-perceptions-moving-urban-landscapes.

Smith-Autard J.M. (2010). Methods of construction 2 and 3, in Dance composition (pp. 41–65). London: Methuen Drama.

Bradby, L. & Lavery, C. (2007). Moving through place: itinerant performance and the search for a community of reverie. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 12(1), 41–54. doi: 10.1080/13569780601094926.

Brown, C. (2015). City of lovers, in Hunter, V. (Ed.), Moving sites: investigating site-specific dance performance, (pp. 199–222). London: Routledge.

Kloetzel, M. (May 2010). Site-specific dance in a corporate landscape. New Theatre Quarterly, 26(2), 133–144. Available at: http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.waikato.ac.nz/docview/872061800/76BD6A5633C644B3PQ/1?accountid=17287.

Barbour, K.N. (2019). Chapter 4: Dancing gardens: Phenomenology and affective practices. In K.N. Barbour, V. Hunter, & M. Kloetzel, (Eds.), (Re)Positioning site dance: Local acts, global perspectives, (pp. 107-131). Bristol, UK: Intellect Books.

Munjee, T. (2014). Appreciating “thirdspace”: An alternative way of viewing and valuing site-specific dance performance. Journal of Dance Education, 14(4), 130–135. doi: 10.1080/15290824.2013.879986.

East, A. (2014). Dancing Aotearoa: Connections with land, identity and ecology. Dance Research Aotearoa, 2(1), 101-124. doi: 10.15663/dra.v2i1.24.

Stewart, N. (2010). Dancing the face of place: Environmental dance and eco-phenomenology. Performance Research, 15(4), 32–39. doi: 10.1080/13528165.2010.539877.

Mackey, S. & Whybrow, N. (2007). Taking place: some reflections on site, performance and community. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 12(1), 1–14. doi: 10.1080/13569780601094785.

Olsen, A. (2014). Nature and creativity, in The place of dance: A somatic guide to dancing and dance making, (pp. 237–233). Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.

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Recommended Readings

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The following textbooks are recommended for all students:

Barbour, K.N., Hunter, V., & Kloetzel, M. (2019). (Re)positioning site dance: Local acts, global perspectives. Bristol, UK: Intellect Books.

Hunter, V. (Ed.). (2015). Moving sites: Investigating site-specific dance performance. Oxon, UK & NewYork: Routledge.

Kloetzel, M., & Pavlik, C. (Eds.). (2009). Site dance. Choreographers and the lure of alternative space. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.

Minton, S.C. (1997). Choreography. A basic approach using improvisation. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

Olsen, A. (2014). The place of dance. A somatic guide to dancing and dance making. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

Smith-Autard, J.M. (2010). Dance composition. A practical guide to creative success in dance making (6th ed). London: AC & Black.

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Online Support

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There is an online Moodle community for this course. Moodle can be accessed via iWaikato. Additional materials, online links, video clips, assessment information, important dates and the paper outline are all available from this site.

Learning in dance is embodied – that is, you have to be present and actively participating in movement to learn in this paper. Students are thus required to attend and participate in all practical activities including workshops and rehearsals.

Please note that students are encouraged to create their own notes in a personal Creative Journal following workshops. Standard 'lecture notes' are not provided.

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Workload

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Students are expected to attend all four hours scheduled each week and eight additional hours scheduled for the final assessment presentation (total of 56 contact hours).

Students should complete 94 hours for independent study (approximately 6 hours each week including during the teaching break and study week), researching, undertaking activities and rehearsals associated with assessments. Workload should include attending other weekly dance classes on campus such as Open Contemporary Dance class or Wednesday lunchtime Unity Dance Collective class, and dance classes in the community.

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Linkages to Other Papers

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This paper links well to other second year papers, particularly DANCE202 Community Dance; EDART201 Dance in Educational Contexts; THSTS212 Developing Text and Action; THSTS260 Exploring the Physical in Theatre.

This paper leads into DANCE301 Performing Dance, THSTS308 Creating Theatre and ARTSW300 Arts and Cultural Festivals.
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Restricted papers: SPLS208

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