Faculty of Arts
Choreography and Dance
Module Catalogue
Semester 1 - 2015/2016
Module Code: DA1027
Module Name: Moving Music - subject to validation
Module Credits: 15
No. of Periods: 1
Level:
Level 4
Module Tutor:
Module Description:
This unit will provide both a practical and theoretical overview of the collaboration between
music and dance. The course will provide an overview of a number of different musical
styles and their possible uses in choreography. The students will be able to explore and
critically discuss a wide range of musical styles in relation to their choreographic
development. There will be extensive viewing and discussion of choreo/musical examples
through recording and live performance. The student will learn the basics of a musical
terminology, to better communicate with musicians.
Specific to:
Choreography and Dance
Choreography and Dance joint
Assessments:
001:
002:
003:
On-line archive
Listening assessment
Choreo/musical assessment
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
0%
30%
70%
Day
Time
Module Code: DA2902
Module Name: Dance Contexts
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
30
2
Level 5
Paul Jackson
Module Description:
This module will build on the student’s knowledge, developed throughout level 4, of a wide
range of cultural, social, and political contemporary contexts for dance, and a range of
academic and presentational skills. This will enable students to locate and record, analyse
and critique their own practice, and that of others, in a wider current context. The module
will include lectures, seminars and workshops, and students will be able to explore the ideas
and appropriate skills encountered in the module through formative tasks, in ways which
are both analytical and practice-based, and support their work on other modules at level 5.
Specific to:
Choreography and Dance
Choreography and Dance joint
Theatre Production (Stage and Arts Management)
Assessments:
001:
Portfolio of written work
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
100%
Day
Time
Module Code: DA2906
Module Name: Techniques of Physical Theatre
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
15
1
Level 5
David McCormick
Module Description:
This unit aims to introduce and contextualise contemporary physical theatre practice
through the study of a variety of case studies of the genre, with particular reference to new
forms and ideas; historical precedent and cross-cultural influences. In addition to practical
group work exploration and interpretation of a range of models of practice, critical viewing,
lectures and seminars will provide a theoretical context for the work.
Specific to:
Choreography and Dance
Assessments:
001:
Group devised performance
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
100%
Day
Time
Module Code: DA3010
Module Name: Current Debates in Dance
Module Credits: 15
No. of Periods: 1
Level:
Level 6
Module Tutor:
Module Description:
The aim of this course is to develop awareness of current dance practices, debates and
related issues, the way they are portrayed and their impact. The student will be able to clear
position drawing on available evidence and expertise. The precise content will depend on
issues of the day and students will be expected to bring in issues that have particular
relevance for them and their intentions and aspirations beyond graduation. Attention will
be paid to meticulous research and preparation. Discussion and debated will take place both
within medium size groups and with the whole cohort and in seminar discussions.
Specific to:
Choreography and Dance
Choreography and Dance joint
Theatre Production (Stage and Arts Management)
Assessments:
001:
002:
300 word extract
Paper presentation
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
15%
85%
Day
Time
Module Code: DPA1000DA
Module Name: Histories and Contexts - subject to validation
Module Credits: 30
No. of Periods: 2
Level:
Level 4
Module Tutor:
Module Description:
The module will be presented as a series of lectures introducing performance practitioners,
concepts and their contexts, exploring how the history of ideas informed – and was
informed by – social and cultural developments across cultures and art forms. It will
encourage the students to study its historical, cultural, social and political contexts through
case study of key practitioners. It will actively question performance in all its manifestations
and encourage students to build on their personal experience. By studying performance as
‘living history’ and placing the study firmly within these specific contexts, the students will
be able to reference and manipulate the information to inform their own future creative
work.
Specific to:
Assessments:
001:
002:
Essay
Essay
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
50%
50%
Semester
S1
Day
Time
Module Code: DPA1001DA
Module Name: Making - subject to validation
Module Credits: 30
No. of Periods: 2
Level:
Level 4
Module Tutor:
Module Description:
This module takes students on a year-long journey that introduces them to the process of
making performance in the current artistic environment. Building on understandings of
performance creation and composition developed at pre-University level, students will be
guided, largely through practical workshops accompanied by appropriate critical and
practitioner readings, through exercises and formative tasks in inventing new work that take
them into the realm of the unknown and that help them expand their capacity to create
unique and original creative material for their academic age and experience. This module is
a university-level primer in creative and compositional technique for the ensemble group
and will engage students in a range of strategies for making work, and will require extensive
in-class showings and critical feedback sessions in preparation for the assessment.
Specific to:
Choreography and Dance
Choreography and Dance joint
Assessments:
001:
Group performance
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
100%
Day
Time