Production Project

Course Content:

This module is designed to take students through the process of making a dance
production, from initial conception to final performance. The focus of the module is to
give students the experience of being in a ?company? and of working closely with a
professional choreographer.

In the early part of the module, lectures focus on the making/devising process of the
lecturer/guest choreographer and the practical processes of creating a production,
researching subject matter, setting movement material and improvising with movement
ideas.

Thereafter, groups will work with their choreographer both in class time and during independent study hours to create, rehearse and produce a full-scale dance-based
production. Performances will take place in a theatre setting and will be open to the
wider university and public.

Teaching:
Teaching strategies will depend on the individual choreographers making the work, but
initially might include: learning movement phrases, improvisation to create movement
material, researching different choreographic methods, responding to tasks and
improvising with ideas, words or music.

Assessment:
? Rehearsal period/ devising period continual assessment (50%)
? Performance (30%)
? Reflective Essay (20%)

Study Option 1 = Whole Year
Study Option 2 = Autumn
Study Option 3 = Spring/summer