Stage Two courses
2025
Second year Bachelor of Dance Studies students must enrol as below:
Semester One:
- DANCE 220
- DANCE 231
- One DANCE elective course or one General Education* course
- One DANCE elective course or one General Education* course
Semester Two:
- DANCE 210
- DANCE 212
- DANCE 216
- DANCE 222
* BDanceSt students cannot take General Education courses in:
- DANCE, PACIFIC, MĀORI, and any other subject you have taken in your degree
DANCE 210 - Contemporary Dance and Choreography 2
- Course prescription: Study of contemporary choreography practice and theory. Students create choreography that may be shared through film and/or live performances.
- Semester availability: Semester Two
- Prerequisite: DANCE 101 or 110
- Points: 15
DANCE 212 - New Zealand Dance Contexts and History
- Course prescription: Emphasis is on the socio-historical developments of dance in the twentieth century. Choreographers, dancers, designers and composers who have created, influenced and shaped dance in New Zealand will be studied via lectures, videos, scores, and reconstructions.
- Semester availability: Semester Two
- Prerequisite: DANCE 107
- Points: 15
DANCE 216 - Indigenous Dance: Aotearoa and Te-Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa
- 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
- Points: 15
DANCE 220 - Dance Vocabulary II
- Course prescription: Exploring and analysing contemporary dance practices and techniques. Movement skills and performance skills will be developed integrating personal movement with techniques.
- Semester availability: Semester One
- Prerequisite: DANCE 120
- Points: 15
DANCE 222 - Safe Dance Practices
- Course prescription: Establishing the theory and practice of safe dance practices within education, performance and health related contexts. Anatomy, kinesiology and dance conditioning methodologies will be studied in relation to dance practice.
- Semester availability: Semester Two
- Prerequisite: DANCE 112
- Points: 15
DANCE 231 - Community Dance
- Course prescription: Entering diverse community settings and teaching and learning dance; analysing the roles and functions of dance in your own and others' communities. Note: this course does not meet the requirements for teacher registration in New Zealand.
- Semester availability: Semester One
- Prerequisite: DANCE 131
- Points: 15