Modification History
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CUACHR501A |
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, coordinate and perform complex dance pieces. It includes composing, staging, performing and evaluating complex solo or ensemble dance pieces.
Application of the Unit
Dancers and dance teachers required to create, perform, or teach others to perform complex dance pieces for formal presentation apply the skills and knowledge outlined in this unit. At this level skills and knowledge could be applied to class work, rehearsal, audition, or performance situations.
Work would usually involve some collaboration and direction from others, though personal responsibility and autonomy are required to create dance pieces that reflect a choreographer’s individual style.
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 complex dance pieces |
1.1. Clarify the intention of dance pieces 1.2. Develop a plan that outlines how the intention will be expressed though movement elements 1.3. Relate movement elements to dance style and include in dance plan 1.4. Incorporate intentions in the dance plan that use 3-D movement reality to combine a dance style with creative movements 1.5. Record choreographic ideas 1.6. Include and initiate safe dance practices in the plan and throughout conception, rehearsal and performance |
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2. Develop work of high compositional standard |
2.1. Create choreography incorporating other artists or art forms 2.2. Manipulate own ideas and movement elements to produce a well-crafted dance piece of high compositional standard 2.3. Demonstrate own appropriate movement ideas and movement styles to express ideas and intentions 2.4. Apply dance notation skills to document, analyse and reconstruct choreography 2.5. Reveal an emerging distinctive approach to and treatment of movement materials 2.6. Devise, rehearse and edit dance piece for formal presentation |
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3. Create production elements to enhance dance pieces |
3.1. Select appropriate music, costumes and props to enhance movement intention 3.2. Prepare performance space to allow for well-defined entrance, exit and audience orientation 3.3. Ensure that dancers, dancing, costumes, props and effects combine to create a mood, a creative experience and audience affect |
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4. Present complex dance pieces in a formal setting |
4.1. Contribute to the presentation of finished works in the role of choreographer or dancer 4.2. Provide clear direction, feedback and encouragement to other dancers and technicians 4.3. Maintain content, phrasing and flow throughout dance pieces 4.4. Explore the potential integration of projections in choreography or the use of video as the presentation format for choreography 4.5. Articulate choreographic processes in journal or essay formats |
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5. Evaluate complex dance pieces |
5.1. Review the dance-creation process against criteria in consultation with relevant personnel to improve and modify pieces 5.2. Document and record dance reviews 5.3. Use reflection skills to review, self-evaluate and apply information to future work |
Required Skills and Knowledge
This section describes the skills and knowledge required for this unit.
Required skills
- communication and interpersonal skills to:
- work collaboratively and in integrated ways with relevant personnel
- provide direction and feedback to others
- 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 that expresses one’s distinctive approach
- translate a choreographic plan into a well-crafted and executed performance
- follow through with own individual style or idea
- learning and self-management skills to:
- improve dance choreography skills through experimentation and practice
- notate choreography in order to document, analyse and reproduce it
- monitor, evaluate and revise own performance as well as that of others
- planning skills to develop a choreographic plan
- technical skills to:
- translate intention into a choreographic plan that includes a variety of dance forms and structures
- apply choreographic devices when arranging movement
- apply elements of movement to dance creation
- manipulate elements of movement
- develop a distinctive approach to and treatment of movement materials
- collaborate with other art forms to create original work
- manipulate structural material, such as:
- theme
- variation
- AB
- ABA
- rondo
- incorporate a number of staging elements into dance pieces, such as:
- audio
- lighting
- costuming, make-up and hair
- set and prop design.
Required knowledge
- fundamental elements of composition and choreographic tasks and analysis
- choreographic devices and structures
- dance as a form of communication
- choreographic concepts, such as:
- collage
- cycles
- sequencing
- narrative themes
- transitions
- issues and challenges that arise in the context of composing dance
- 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 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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Movement elements may include: |
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Choreographic ideas may include: |
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Safe dance practices may include: |
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High compositional standard may include: |
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Notation may include: |
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Presentation may include: |
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Dance-creation process may include: |
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Relevant personnel may include: |
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Unit Sector(s)
Performing arts - choreography
Custom Content Section
Not applicable.
