Training of Classical Ballet Technique 7

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
107ECDT7 credit 2 2 exercise hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 32 to 42 hours of self-study English winter

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Předmět zajišťuje Dance Department

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Learning objective:

The training serves to improve the technique of classical ballet. The aim is to consolidate and verify the basic principles of this technique, to develop physical abilities, to develop movement memory.

The form of the training follows the form in professional ballet companies, where the dancer deepens his/her abilities and fitness through daily practice with the help of such a purposefully learned and guided stereotype. At the same time, the training emphasizes the connection with the pedagogical work and the knowledge that the teacher himself/herself must control what he/she will teach. It is therefore about understanding the importance of acquired practical skills for quality pedagogical work.

Thematic areas:

The training is based, like the CBT methodology, on the basic system and principles of Method A. J. Vaganova, but it is enriched with links and combinations of different schools or styles of classical dance, e.g. Cecchetti, Bournonville, Balanchine, the form of training is connected with the work and system of the teacher.

The difficulty of the training is adapted to the technical ability of the students.

The basic form of classical ballet training:

Exercises - à la barre, au milieu, allegro

à la barre

-exercises facing the barre - warm up

-combinations include all the basic elements of classical ballet technique - battement tendu, battement tendu jeté, rond de jambe par terre, rond de jambe en l'air, battement fondu, battement frappés, petit battement, adagio-développé, relevé lent, poses arabesque, attitude, écarté, etc., grand battement

au milieu

-the exercises include all the elements taught at the bar, especially the combinations

-adagia, battement tendu and battement jeté, battement fondu, grand battement

-enchainements, again based on the proven elements, with many linking steps and pirouettes

allegro

-leaping combinations divided into:

-petit allegro

-medium allegro

-grand allegro

-end of training - cool down, concentration, stretching, all to relax after hard physical exercise

Learning outcomes

The student has a working knowledge of the basic and advanced elements of classical ballet technique.

He/she is physically prepared to be able to do quality teaching work.

Prerequisites and other requirements

none

Literature

Recommended reading:

FOSTER, Rory: Ballet Pedagogy - The art of Teaching, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2010, ISBN 978-0813034591.

GRANT, Gail. Technical manual and dictionary of classical ballet. 2. revised edition. New York: Dover Publications, 1967.

WARREN, Gretchen Ward. The art of teaching ballet: ten twentieth-century masters. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, c1996. ISBN 081301459X.

E-learning: https://moodle.amu.cz

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Evaluation methods and criteria

Credit is awarded on the basis of knowledge and skills in practicing exercises and combinations in the structure of classical dance training.

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Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans