Dance Aesthetics 1

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Learning objective:

The course deals with general aesthetics applied to special dance aesthetics. It deepens students' knowledge of the subject, helps them to understand its specifics and transformations.

The teaching is based on the ability to construct thinking and understanding of concepts, which are conducted in the form of professional disputation. This type of interactive lecture and debate leads the student to self-reflection and helps to solve the assigned tasks effectively. Professional guidance ensures the quality of understanding of aesthetics and the acquisition of professional discourse in which the student uses the acquired knowledge and skills of the field and demonstrates the ability to apply them in a distinctive way.

The aim of the study is to acquire knowledge of aesthetic phenomena, relationships, as well as the theory of perception, observation and cognition. Students are introduced to the concept of aesthetic function, the principle of judgment formation, aesthetic experience, and the concept of beauty of the body and beauty of movement.

Thematic areas:

• development of artistic imagination
• aesthetic value of dance
• dance as theatre
• dance as an ephemeral art and how to explore it
• the specifics of dance aesthetics
• dance techniques as carriers of aesthetic values and norms
• analysis of aesthetic frameworks within the work of prominent choreographic personalities

Learning outcomes

• orientation in the theory determining the profile of the dance discipline
• awareness of the basic issues of the field and its changes
• knowledge of the procedures of understanding and processing one's own practices in a practical and spiritual level
• understanding of the contemporary and timeless value of a work of art
• the ability to analyse a work in terms of aesthetic principles
• orientation in contemporary approaches to dance aesthetics as a distinctive field
• to reflect independently on aesthetic issues in dance
• knowledge of the field and orientation in its currents of thought

Prerequisites and other requirements

none

Literature

Required reading:

ARISTOTLE. Poetics. Penguin Classics, 1997. ISBN 978-0140446364.

BEST, David. Expression in Movement and The Arts. London: Henry Kimpton Publishers, 1974.

DAVIES, Stephen ed. Companion to Aesthetics. Willey-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN 978-1405169226.

ROYCE PETERSON, Anya. The Antropology of Dance. Vyd. 1. Indiana University Press 1977. ISBN 978-1852730888.

TOWNSEND, Dabney. The A to Z of Asthetics. Scarecrow Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0810875814.

Recommended reading:

HENCKMANN, Wolfhart. Estetický slovník. 1. vyd. Praha: Svoboda, 1995.

CHALUPECKÝ, Jindřich. Evropa a umění. Vyd. 1. Praha: Torst, 2005. 553 s. ISBN 80-7215-264-5.

JANEČEK, Václav. Tělo a tanec. 1. vyd. Praha: Akademie múzických umění v Praze, 1997. 103 s. ISBN 80-85883-23-6.

LENDEROVÁ, Milena. Dějiny těla : prameny, koncepty, historiografie. 1. vydání. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2013. 261 stran. ISBN 978-80-7465-068-0.

Základní pojmy divadla : teatrologický slovník. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri Národní divadlo v Praze, 2004. 348 s. ISBN 80-7277-194-9.

SOURIAU, Étienne. Encyklopedie estetiky. [1. vyd.]. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1994. 939 s. ISBN 80-85605-8-X.

ZICH, Otakar. Estetika dramatického umění : teoretická dramaturgie. 2. vyd. Praha: Panorama, 1987.

ZUSKA, Vlastimil. Estetika : úvod do současnosti tradiční disciplíny. Vyd. 1. Praha: Triton, 2001. 132 s. ISBN 80-7254-194-3.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Oral verification of knowledge and skills, presentation of research on selected concepts and examples of their manifestations in the art of dance.

Other requirements. Attendance of at least 80%, activity in class, working on partial tasks

Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Choreology (MA) - from 2023/24 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)