| CODE | DCS1007 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Dance Devising | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Dance Studies | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will introduce democratic dance-making processes appropriate to collaboration: - Understanding and appreciation of context; - Planning and articulating working processes, responding to group needs; - Realising intention/objectives for series of workshops; - Experiencing a range of facilitation skills; - Making performative choices appropriate to context. Students will plan, create, realise and evaluate a project together, using self and peer assessment. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit introduces: - Concepts appropriate to artistic collaboration; - Understanding differences between directorial and democratic dance-making processes; - Development as musicality (eg, syncopation and orchestration) as relevant to group-devised work - Appreciation of contexts: e.g. needs of working with other members of the dance group, with music, design, or youth, health or community contexts; - A range of facilitation skills (social-interactive and communication skills, leadership roles, organisation etc); - Choice and application of choreographic and theatrical concepts, strategies and devises appropriate to collaboration; - Self reflection and peer assessment of group. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Demonstrate concepts appropriate to artistic collaboration; - Demonstrate understanding differences between directorial and democratic dance-making processes through application; - Demonstrate appreciation of contexts: e.g. needs of working with site and/or venue; - Show a range of facilitation skills (social-interactive and communication skills, leadership roles, organisation etc); - Apply choreographic and theatrical concepts, strategies and devices appropriate to collaboration; - Write a self reflective log and apply peer assessment to group process. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Demonstrate critical, analytical and practical skills; - Apply creative and imaginative skills; - Understand shared practices; - Use improvisation and performance techniques associated with particular cultural forms and/or practitioners; - Develop physical, improvisational and compositional skills and apply them effectively to communicate with an audience. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Benson, J. F. 1987. Working More Creatively with Groups (London: Routledge). - Brown, A. 1994. Groupwork, 3rd ed. (Aldershot: Arena, Ashgate Publishing Ltd). - Brown, Sally. (ed.) 1998. Peer Assessment in Practice (SEDA). - Butterworth, Jo. 2004. ‘Teaching choreography in higher education: a process continuum model’, in Research in Dance Education, 5 (1) 45-67. - Butterworth, Jo and Gill Clarke. 1998. Dance Makers Portfolio: Conversations with Choreographers (Bretton Hall: Centre for Dance and Theatre Studies). - Cass, J, 1999. The Dance: A Handbook for the Appreciation of the Choreographic Experience (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company). - Chambers, R. 2002. Participatory Workshops: A Sourcebook of 21 Sets of Ideas and Activities (London: Earthscan Publications Ltd). - Douglas, T. 2000. Basic Group Work (London: Routledge). - Landy, L, and E. Jamieson. 2000. Devising Dance and Music: Idee Fixe Experimental Sound and Movement Theatre (Sunderland: University of Sunderland Press). - Lavender, Larry. 2009. 'Facilitating the choreographic process,' in Contemporary choreography: A critical reader, edited by Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut (London: Routledge), 71-79 (excerpt). - Lerman, Liz, and John Borstel. 2003. Liz Lerman's critical response process: a method for getting useful feedback on anything you make, from dance to dessert. Liz Lerman Dance Exchange). -Oddey, Alison. 1994. Devising Theatre: A Practical and Theoretical Handbook (London: Routledge). - Topping, Keith. 2009. ‘Peer Assessment’, Theory into Practice 48 (1): 20-27. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Independent Study, Performance & Practicum | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Francesca Tranter |
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