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Title
Realise choreographic intention for solo performance
Level
3
Credits
8
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: explain
choreographic intention of solo work; explore solo dance
presentation; and perform and reflect on solo dance.
Classification
Dance > Dance Performance
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Unit 11497, Demonstrate dance, or demonstrate equivalent
knowledge and skills.
Explanatory notes
1
Solo performance work may be a dance work choreographed by self or other.
2
Assessment of this unit standard must include both developmental process and the
performance product.
3
Respect for ownership of original ideas and cultural sensitivity underpin the learning
and teaching involved in this unit standard.
4
Solo performance should be 2-3 minutes in length, and performed in front of an
audience which may include in-class performance.
5
Dance production in this unit standard refers to production in front of an audience for
more than one performance. Technical and/or dress rehearsal may be counted as a
performance.
6
Requirements for this unit standard may be met in one production or in an
accumulation of productions.
7
Performance etiquette refers to the behavioural standards set for the production e.g. backstage protocols.
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14890 version 4
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Explain choreographic intention of solo work.
Range
any of - written, oral, visual, combination.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Explanation includes establishing the choreographic idea.
1.2
Explanation includes explaining performance considerations.
Range
1.3
space, environment, audience.
Explanation includes awareness of integrity in relation to solo performance.
Range
choreographic intent, cultural, performance etiquette.
Outcome 2
Explore solo dance presentation.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Exploration includes effort to achieve choreographic plan as a solo performer.
Range
2.2
Exploration includes evidence of the skill of establishing stage presence.
Range
2.3
space, movement vocabulary and patterns, timing, dynamics.
may include but is not limited to – breath, eye contact, audience
rapport, performance energy, performer confidence.
Exploration includes evidence of the skills involved in communicating
choreographic intentions.
Outcome 3
Perform and reflect on solo dance.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Performance shows evidence of refinement as a result of rehearsal process.
3.2
Performance gives evidence of communication of the choreographic intention of
the work.
3.3
Performance displays evidence of stage presence.
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3.4
Performance includes a level of technical competence to suit choreographic
intentions.
3.5
Reflection includes consideration of process and performance.
Range
any of written, oral, visual, combination.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
19 August 1998
31 December 2016
Revision
2
11 June 2002
31 December 2016
Review
3
4 December 2012
31 December 2016
Rollover
4
20 March 2014
31 December 2016
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0226
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
NZQA National Qualifications Services
SSB Code 130301
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016