This paper offers an opportunity to experience choreographic process and critically consider the roles of dance and movement in specific places and sites such as urban environments, public recreational facilities and gardens. Students will also develop choreography for theatre performance.

In choreographing for places, sites and theatres, students will draw upon their own movement experiences, extend their movement range and demonstrate their enhanced embodied understanding of choreography for performance.

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, loose 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.

In this paper you will use books, journal articles and academic materials collated into a Waikato Reading List and available electronically. Some books and journals are also available in print from the University Library.There will be no costs for accessing any of the required materials.

There is a link within the Moodle site for the Waikato Reading List.