Modification History
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CUACHR402A |
This version first released with CUA11 Live Performance Training Package version 1.0 |
Unit Descriptor
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to create short dance pieces in dance styles, such as tap, jazz, contemporary, street and cultural forms of dance.
The context of performing and creating dance pieces, are covered in CUACHR401A Create and perform dance pieces.
Application of the Unit
Dance teachers and choreographers who are required to plan, compose and stage, but not perform in, short dance pieces apply the skills and knowledge outlined in this unit. Dance pieces could be for dance school productions or other non-professional contexts.
Work is usually undertaken under some supervision, though autonomy and judgement can be expected given the nature of the creative process.
Licensing/Regulatory Information
No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of endorsement.
Pre-Requisites
Not applicable.
Employability Skills Information
This unit contains employability skills.
Elements and Performance Criteria Pre-Content
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Performance Criteria |
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Elements describe the essential outcomes of a unit of competency. |
Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. Where bold italicised text is used, further information is detailed in the required skills and knowledge section and the range statement. Assessment of performance is to be consistent with the evidence guide. |
Elements and Performance Criteria
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1. Plan and compose dance pieces |
1.1. Clarify intention of dance pieces with relevant personnel 1.2. Consider movement elements and how they relate to dance styles when translating intention into a choreographic plan 1.3. Agree on aspects of staging and performance and notate these on plan 1.4. Ensure safe dance practices are incorporated into the plan and followed at all times |
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2. Demonstrate choreography and prepare for staging performances |
2.1. Ensure intentions in the dance plan are brought into 3-D reality 2.2. Demonstrate and express appropriate movement ideas and movement styles from the plan 2.3. Review and modify ideas and movement elements to produce well-crafted dance pieces 2.4. Ensure content, phrasing and flow maintain interest throughout dance pieces 2.5. Select appropriate music, costumes and props to enhance movement intention 2.6. Prepare performance space allowing for well-defined entrance, exit and audience orientation 2.7. Ensure the dancers, dancing and aspects of staging combine to create a mood, a creative experience and audience affect |
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3. Evaluate dance pieces |
3.1. Review dance-creation process through self-evaluation and in consultation with relevant personnel to improve and modify 3.2. Document the review process appropriately 3.3. Discuss strengths and weaknesses of dance pieces with relevant personnel and identify strategies for improving own techniques |
Required Skills and Knowledge
This section describes the skills and knowledge required for this unit.
Required skills
- communication and teamwork skills to:
- work collaboratively and in integrated ways with others involved in performances
- receive constructive feedback and apply it to future work
- clarify an expressive intention
- communicate intention to other dancers and technicians
- initiative and creativity skills to:
- develop new choreography
- work creatively with others
- translate a choreographic plan into a well-crafted and executed performance
- follow through with own individual style or idea
- learning skills to:
- improve choreographic skills through experimentation and practice
- evaluate and revise all aspects of a creative process
- evaluate and revise own performance as well as that of others
- literacy skills to:
- document a choreographic plan for reflection and analysis
- document self-evaluation and assessment appropriately
- planning skills to:
- develop a choreographic plan
- reflect on and analyse choreographic structures and processes
- technical skills to:
- experiment with, improvise and refine choreographic plan
- incorporate a number of staging elements, such as:
- audio
- lighting and vision systems
- costuming, make-up and hair
- set and prop design
- stage markings.
Required knowledge
- creative process as it relates to choreography
- elements of dance
- choreographic devices and structures
- dance as a form of communication
- issues and challenges that arise in the context of composing dance
- relevant musical styles
- relevant dance vocabulary
- history of choreography in relation to chosen dance styles
- safe dance practices.
Evidence Guide
The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package.
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Overview of assessment |
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Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit |
Evidence of the ability to:
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Context of and specific resources for assessment |
Assessment must ensure access to a large dance studio or space, including:
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Method of assessment |
A range of assessment methods should be used to assess practical skills and knowledge. The following examples are appropriate for this unit:
Assessment methods should closely reflect workplace demands (e.g. literacy) and the needs of particular groups (e.g. people with disabilities and people who may have literacy or numeracy difficulties, such as speakers of languages other than English, remote communities and those with interrupted schooling). |
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Guidance information for assessment |
Holistic assessment with other units relevant to the industry sector, workplace and job role is recommended, for example:
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Range Statement
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
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Intention may include: |
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Dance pieces may be: |
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Relevant personnel may include: |
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Movement elements may refer to: |
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Choreographic plan may include: |
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Aspects of staging and performance may relate to: |
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Safe dance practices may include: |
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Dance-creation process may include: |
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Unit Sector(s)
Performing arts - choreography
Custom Content Section
Not applicable.
