Dance Subject regulations
Dance students will develop creative and pedagogical knowledge and skills for dance in community settings, schools and professional contexts, informed by understandings of wellbeing and lifelong learning through the arts. The broad focus in the dance minor means that students will enhance their embodied knowledge and engage with interdisciplinary cultural, ethnographic, phenomenological, critical, pedagogical and creative practice research. Dance aligns well with papers in Theatre Studies, Maori Performing Arts, Screen and Media Studies, Health, Sport and Human Performance and Education and Society.
Dance is available as a minor.
To complete a minor in Dance, students must complete 60 points, consisting of 45 points from DANCE coded papers and a further 15 points from papers listed for Dance.
Dance papers
| Code and paper title | Points | |
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DANCE101
Performing Arts: Dance and Movement
This paper integrates dance practice and theory, providing practical experience of different dances of Aotearoa, the Pacific region and beyond... |
15 | 27B (Hamilton) |
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MAORI157
Ngā Mahi a Rehia: An Introduction to Kapa Haka
An introduction to the theoretical and practical components of kapa haka as a means of communication and cultural expression in the Māori world. |
15 | 27A (Hamilton) |
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DANCE201
Choreographing Dance
This paper integrates dance and theory, providing embodied experiences of choreographic process, somatic practice and critically considering the... |
15 | 27A (Hamilton) |
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THSTS260
Exploring the Physical in Theatre
This paper charts the use of the term ‘physical theatre’, providing an overview of the areas of debate in the field. Workshops are contextualised by... |
15 | 27A (Hamilton) |
| Code and paper title | Points | |
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DANCE301
Performing Dance
This paper integrates embodied learning in advanced choreographic, somatic and creative processes leading to public performances. Critical... |
15 | 27B (Hamilton) |
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THSTS303
Reimagining Musical Theatre
This paper integrates practice and theory, critically investigating the popular genre of Musical Theatre and engaging in postdramatic practices to... |
15 | 27A (Hamilton) |
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DANCE101 Performing Arts: Dance and Movement
This paper integrates dance practice and theory, providing practical experience of different dances of Aotearoa, the Pacific region and beyond...
Points 15An introduction to the theoretical and practical components of kapa haka as a means of communication and cultural expression in the Māori world.
Points 15 -
DANCE201 Choreographing Dance
This paper integrates dance and theory, providing embodied experiences of choreographic process, somatic practice and critically considering the...
Points 15This paper charts the use of the term ‘physical theatre’, providing an overview of the areas of debate in the field. Workshops are contextualised by...
Points 15 -
DANCE301 Performing Dance
This paper integrates embodied learning in advanced choreographic, somatic and creative processes leading to public performances. Critical...
Points 15This paper integrates practice and theory, critically investigating the popular genre of Musical Theatre and engaging in postdramatic practices to...
Points 15
2027 Subject regulation information current as at 12 Aug 2026 01:00am