KDB320 Independent Dance Project

Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal

Overview

This unit enables you to adapt and transform your dance skills for artistic expression and is the culmination of your previous two Performance in Context units. This guided experience supports you to develop your skills to work independently and to establish your practice as a teaching artist through the key processual stages including conception, development and realisation of your ideas. You will apply your integrated knowledge of technical skills and artistic practice to effectively initiate and realise an independent dance project. This self-contained, discrete project will enable you to develop your skills, professional identity and aptitude for engagement within a variety of industry contexts. 

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Develop and realise a dance based project within a specific context which demonstrates a sophisticated application of Teaching Artistry skills.
2. Work collaboratively with peers and/or stakeholders on the planning, development and realisation of a creative performance or workshop outcome as well as honing your ability to give and receive feedback.
3. Formulate an industry pitched project proposal that reflects effective planning and includes factors such as an understanding of context, risk, availability of resources, team work and project deliverables.

Content

Learning Approaches

A series of workshops and studios alongside scheduled meetings with your project mentor. Peer feedback will form part of shared practice and feedback sessions throughout the unit.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

You will receive formative online feedback on your progress in this unit during studios, workshops and discussions throughout the semester.

Assessment

Overview

There are two assessment items in this unit. For the first assessment you will develop a proposal which encapsulates the key elements of your project. For the second, you will devise and demonstrate your creative project and disseminate this through a relevant medium.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Pitching your project proposal

Formative and Summative: Develop a project proposal which encapsulates the key elements of your project.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Project

Summative: Devise and deliver a creative project in response to a brief and disseminate this through a relevant medium, such as live performance, video, online tools or other creative platforms.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.

Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Requirements to Study

Requirements

All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.

This unit may also require a Tier 2 Health and Safety Induction which is provided by the technician on site in a theatre, workshop or studio. Not all students are required to complete the Tier 2 induction.

Resources

Risk Assessment Statement

For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.

The study in this unit involves physical training in a variety of locations and venues which may include, your home, purpose-built dance studios, public venues, outdoor locations,  industry standard performance venues an online formats.  Full physical participation in all unit activities is subject to compliance with safe dance practice. You have been taught safe dance principles as life-long learning skills and it is expected that you will apply them in this unit. Physical challenges are an inherent part of dance training. The development of essential risk-management skills that minimize potential injury is a high priority with all teaching staff. Due to the athletic nature of dance training, the dance discipline provides the necessary duty of care in emergency situations that arise on campus in relation to this unit, through its first-aid and health and safety protocols.

Course Learning Outcomes

KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts

1. Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
   Relates to: ULO1
2. Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
   Relates to: ULO1
3. Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
   Relates to: ULO1
4. Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
   Relates to: ULO2, ULO3
5. Represent and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
   Relates to: ULO3
6. Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
   Relates to: ULO2
7. Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary creative practice.
   Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3
8. Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
   Relates to: ULO2, ULO3
9. Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, and work with integrity across creative practice networks.
   Relates to: ULO2, ULO3
10. Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism in creative practice, both alone and in groups.
    Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3