Basics of Dance Aesthetics 2

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Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
107EBDA2	exam	2	1 seminar hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 40 to 50 hours of self-study	English	summer

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Předmět zajišťuje Dance Department

Learning objectives:

The course contains the issues of general aesthetics applied to special dance aesthetics, which is further developed in other thematic areas. Students develop other aesthetic categories and concepts related to movement and the body (in dance). They focus on the interpretation of specific examples in dance using basic general philosophical knowledge.

Instruction is based on the ability to construct thinking and understanding of concepts, which are conducted through professional disputation. This type of interactive lecture and debate leads the student to self-reflection and aids in effective problem solving. 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 goal of the study is to develop knowledge of other aesthetic phenomena, relationships, observation, cognition, and the ability to verbalize the spiritual level of thinking about and presenting the art of dance. Students are introduced to attitudes toward art and the world through a particular form of confrontation, the interconnectedness of understanding life and artistic performance, and the lens of openness and collaboration of the phenomena they learn about.

Thematic areas:

the question of the many functionalities of meaning arising from the multiplicity of the world
social cultivation and development of the human personality
Taste: one's own disposition, opinions, predilections, education, influences, experiences
ambiguity
visual communication
aesthetic perception
individuality and uniqueness
representation and demonstration
semiotic and receptive aesthetics
aesthetics of consumption
presentation - representation: meaning and effect

Learning outcomes

the ability to independently develop your creative thinking
mastery of the ability to develop their communication, interaction, pedagogical and creative competences
the ability to explain and describe their pedagogical approach or the artistic intention of a work conceptually
the ability to work with required literature
the ability to present their work publicly
have the skills necessary to document their own creative work and be able to create and archive materials for the development of an art portfolio, with an emphasis on systematicity

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.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Oral examination, examination of knowledge and skills, presentation of research on selected concepts, analysis and defence of written seminar paper (min. 3NS)

Other requirements: 80% attendance, activity in class, completion of partial assignments

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