Dance Elective Courses

2025

Course prescription: Focuses on the development and consolidation of choreographic and performance skills.
Semester availability: Summer School
Prerequisite: Any 30 points at Stage I in Dance Studies
Points: 15

Course prescription: To prepare students for the diverse kinds of physical engagement that may be required in the dance industry. Focus on the practice of learning and physically articulating diverse studio dance techniques, with a specific focus on hip hop and jazz.
Semester availability: Semester One
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in Dance Studies
Programme restriction: BDanceSt
Points: 15

Course Prescription: Develops knowledge of foundational creative dance praxis pertaining to the Contexts of Aotearoa and Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa. Explores cultural and kinaesthetic expressions, traditions, protocols and artists' elements in relation to indigenous concepts and methodologies of dance practices.
Semester Availability: Semester Two
Prerequisite: MĀORI 190, PACIFIC 110

Course prescription: Explores the artistic relationality of Vā and
Whakapapa through indigenous dance praxis. Storytelling through complex choreographic methodological and theoretical concepts will navigate the importance of people to place. Offers an insight into distinct Oceania values as it pertains to the Creative Arts in Aotearoa and wider te-moana-nui-a-kiwa.
Semester Availability: Semester One
Prerequisite: DANCE 216

Course prescription: The aim of this course is to explore methods for enhancing performance and theatre presence in different theatre and film spaces. The key outcomes include the development of an understanding of what makes a performance great and how diverse connections are made with different audiences.
Semester availability: Semester Two
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Dance Studies
Programme restriction: BDanceSt
Points: 15

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