Overview
This intermediate course develops advanced technical range, artistic specificity, and compositional complexity in dance. Students undertake sustained studio practice across contemporary, modern, ballet, jazz, somatic, improvisational, and culturally responsive approaches, with emphasis on efficiency, strength, articulation, stamina, coordination, floor work, directional change, dynamic contrast, musical independence, weight, momentum, safe progression, and individual physical differences.
Composition studies investigate layered structures, thematic development, abstraction, chance procedures, task-based improvisation, counterpoint, canon, accumulation, fragmentation, transitions, text and multimedia relationships, and unconventional performance spaces. Students develop choreographic work through research, experimentation, critique, revision, and collaborative decision-making while examining authorship, representation, cultural appropriation, accessibility, ethical collaboration, and the relationship among choreographic intention, process, and audience interpretation.
Learning Outcomes
- Perform increasingly complex movement phrases with technical control, expressive clarity, musical independence, and safe physical practice.
- Evaluate individual technical goals using sustained practice, observation, feedback, and reflective documentation.
- Compose and sustain choreographic studies with coherent artistic premises, developed thematic material, and purposeful formal structures.
- Experiment with chance procedures, improvisation, counterpoint, canon, accumulation, fragmentation, transitions, and multimedia relationships.
- Revise choreographic work in response to critique, research, rehearsal observation, and audience interpretation.
- Collaborate in shared creative decision-making while applying ethical, accessible, and culturally responsive artistic practices.
- Analyze the relationship among choreographic intention, compositional process, performance context, and audience reception.
- Present and defend artistic choices through research-informed discussion, written reflection, and polished performance.
Timetable
| Type | Length | Frequency | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 2 hours | Weekly | All semester |
| Studio | 2 hours | Weekly | All semester |
| Workshop | 2 hours | Weekly | All semester |
| Tutorial | 1 hour | Fortnightly | All semester |
Assessment Schedule
| Type | Description | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Test | Technical evaluations (2 × 15%) | 30.00% |
| Assignment | Creative process documentation | 15.00% |
| Deliverable | Choreographic studies (2 × 15%) | 30.00% |
| Assignment | Research-informed reflection | 10.00% |
| Capstone | Final polished showing | 15.00% |
Prerequisites
Teaching Staff & Programs
This course is delivered jointly by faculty from the participating programs listed below. In line with the Douchewater Way, the University of Sexology tailors core instruction directly to each cohort's specific discipline — adapting curriculum to program needs rather than forcing students into a one-size-fits-all model. Learn more about our approach at The Douchewater Way.