| CODE | DCS3030 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Advanced Study in Dance | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| EQF/MQF LEVEL | 6 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Dance Studies | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This unit will examine a selected dance or performance practice and follow the work of dance artists and practitioners whose performance, teaching, or facilitation is considered an example of good practice. This study-unit is intended to offer further opportunity for Final Year students to identify specific dance and performance experiences to help them to pursue potential career goals. In consultation with the lecturer, the student will design and plan a strategy for gaining specific practical or managerial experience, and for underpinning that experience through literature, audio-visual material or appropriate webpages, and personal reflection and analysis. After the performance experience or applied practitioner project, the student will be required to write a reflective essay detailing essential learning experiences and potential development opportunities as artist-practitioner. Study-Unit Aims: The study-unit will expose students to certain practical and theoretical considerations that characterise dance and performance practices, and enable students to further develop skills and understandings related to their chosen fields of interest. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a particular artistic practice and/or application in the dance field; - identify the value of the chosen project in terms of potential career opportunity; - comprehend and articulate understanding of the chosen practice and its characteristics. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - work independently or as group member on a specific educational and/or performance project; - reflect on and critically appraise own practice; - prioritize and organize personal schedules, time management of project; - demonstrate communication and presentational skills in written form. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Bunker, J., Pakes, A. and Rowell, B., (eds). 2013. Thinking through dance: the philosophy of dance performance and practices. (Hampshire: Dance Books Ltd) - Fraleigh, Sondra H and Hanstein, Penelope. (eds.) 1999. Researching Dance: Evolving Modes of Enquiry (London: Dance Books) - Franco, Susanne and Nordera, Marina. 2007. Dance Discourses: key words in dance research (London and NY: Routledge) - Nelson, Robin. 2013. Practice as Research in the Arts: Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistances. (Palgrave Macmillan UK) - Schechner, Richard (2007) Performance Studies: an Introduction, 2nd edition, Routledge. Supplementary Readings: - Foster, Susan L. (1986) Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance, University of California Press. - Franco, S. and M. Nordera. 2007. Dance Discourses: key words in dance research (Routledge) - Lepecki, André. 2004. Of the presence of the body: Essays on dance and performance theory (Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University) Additional selected texts as appropriate to the chosen field of study. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Fieldwork and Tutorials | |||||||||
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2026/7. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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