Stage One courses

Updated October 2024

DANCE 101/101G - Introduction to Dance and Creative Processes

• Course prescription: To develop an understanding of our moving bodies through movement awareness, dance improvisation, choreography and creative and analytic writing. Students will undertake both theoretical and practical classes focusing on a range of practices that dancers and movement practitioners use to facilitate kinaesthetic awareness, experimentation, communication and choreography. Students will explore somatic theory and practice, improvisation scores, choreography and dance analysis.
• Semester availability: Summer School, Semester One, and Semester Two
• Location: City Campus
• Note: Available to all University of Auckland students, except those in a BDanceSt. 
• Points: 15

DANCE 107 - Dance History and Contexts

• Course prescription: Study of the historical development in western theatre dance from the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century.
• Semester availability: Semester Two 
• Note: BDanceSt students enrol in Stream S01
• Points: 15

DANCE 110 - Contemporary Dance and Choreography 1

• Course prescription: A study of contemporary dance practices through the choreography, creative facilitation and techniques of contemporary dance makers. For BDanceSt students only.
• Semester availability: Semester Two
• Note: BDanceSt students enrol in Stream S01
• Points: 15

DANCE 112 - Dance Kinesiology

• Course prescription: Introduction to physiological and kinesiological analysis of dance movements. The study of skeletal alignment, muscular balance and mechanical efficiency.
• Semester availability: Semester Two 
• Note: BDanceSt students enrol in Stream S01
• Points: 15

DANCE 120 - Dance Vocabulary I

• Course prescription: Introducing the study of diverse dance vocabulary including ballet, contemporary dance and the field of somatics. Students will examine specific technical requirements of identified dance vocabulary.
• Semester availability: Semester One 
• Location: City Campus
• Note: BDanceSt students enrol in Stream S01
• Points: 15

DANCE 131 - Dance Education

• Course prescription: The study of dance education practice and theory that shapes teaching and learning of dance in school and community contexts. Note: this course does not meet the requirements for teacher registration in New Zealand.
• Semester availability: Semester One
• Location: City Campus
  
• Note: BDanceSt students enrol in Stream S01
• Points: 15