History of Dance and Ballet in Bohemia 1

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The course Overview of the History of Ballet in Bohemia 1 takes the form of an overview lecture dealing with the development of dance in the Czech territory from the earliest documents and references to the end of the 18th century. Emphasis is placed on the characteristics of the development of dance culture in our territory and the formation of theatrical dance, which is seen in the context of other forms of dance and other artistic disciplines. Particular attention is paid to the formation of specifically Czech theatrical dance culture and its links to the European dance scene, as well as to the relationship between dance culture and other forms of culture in the Czech environment.

The aim of the study is to provide students with knowledge about the place of dance culture in the spectrum of Czech artistic activity, to help them understand the specifics of the historical development of dance art, their causes and consequences for the current situation of dance in the Czech Republic.

Thematic areas:

• Periodization of the history of artistic dance in Bohemia: definition of the basic phases of development, their characteristics, distinctive features and main representatives; overview and characteristics of sources for the study of dance in Bohemia;
• Dance in the earliest period: accounts of dance in written records of Czech literature (chronicles, religious and moral texts, official documents, etc.) and possibilities of their interpretation; the earliest period in iconographic evidence (book painting, depictions on utilitarian objects, sculpture, wall painting, stoves); dance culture of the High Middle Ages;
• Dance art in the early modern period: dance culture of the different social classes - dance occasions, repertoire, influences; echoes of Renaissance and Baroque aristocratic dance forms, especially ballet de cour (Phasma dionysiacum Pragense);
• The formation of theatrical dance culture: dance as part of the productions of nomadic societies, aristocratic dance culture of the 17th century; castle theatres and dance within them, repertoire, personalities (Johann Baptista Danese); model of Viennese court opera - performances of Costanza e fortezza and Sub olea pacis 1723;
• Beginnings of theatrical dance in public theatres: Prague theatre scenes of the 18th century - Špork Theatre, Theatre in Kotce, Patriotic Theatre, ballet within Moravian theatres (Brno in the period of J. B. Bergopzoom); responses of ballet d'action on Czech stages, Anton Rössler, Vojtěch Morávek-Alberti;
• Ballet in bourgeois theatre culture - Nostic/Stavov Theatre in Prague, ballet pre-Romanticism - Martin Porst, Giacomo Brunetti.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge of the development of dance culture in the Czech environment in the context of domestic culture and international dance events, developing the volume of knowledge and the ability to put phenomena into context and think critically about them, acquaintance with Czech dance history literature.

Prerequisites and other requirements

Overview of History of Dance and Ballet 1, 2

Literature

e-learning materials: https://moodle.amu.cz/course/view.php?id=315

Set of PowerPrint presentations and texts on the selected topics from the History of dance in Bohemia.

Web sites of Czech ballet and dance companies, dance projects, personalities, schools and other institutions dealing with dance.

Entries on Czech dance topics in COHEN, Selma Jean. International Encylopedia of Dance. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 9780195173697.

Required reading:

GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota. Traditional dance as a phenomenon inside the Czech modernism. In Dance, Gender and Meanings. Contemporizing Traditional Dance. Praha: AMU,Etnochoreologický ústav AV ČR, 2012. ISBN 978-80-7331-236-7.

GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota. Isadora in Bohemian Spas (Forgotten Events). In Remembering Isadora Duncan. Budapest 2002. pp. 63 - 69. ISSN 1586-4537.

LANZ, Isabelle. A garden of dance. A monography on the work of Jiří Kylián 20 years at Netherlands Dans Theater (1975 - 1995). Den Haag, Nederlands Dans Theater, Theater Instituut Nederland, 1995. ISBN 90-70892-36-7.

NEČASOVÁ, Natálie. Dance at Local Theatre Venues in 1918. Taneční aktuality Speciální vydání 2018, Výročí českého tance. Praha, Taneční aktuality o.p.s., 2018. ISBN 978-80-270-4563-1.

STAVĚLOVÁ, Daniela. The Polka as a Czech National Symbol. In BAKKA, Egil and Theresa Jill BUCKLAND and Helena SAARIKOSKI and Anne von BIBRA WHARTON. Waltzing Through Europe. Open Book Publishers, 2020. ISBN 978-1-78374-733-7. (https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0174/ch5.xhtml)

STAVĚLOVÁ, Daniela. The oldest records of Czech traditional dances: Rethinking dancescape. In: FISKVIK, Anne Margrete and STRANDEN, Marit (ed). (Re)Searching the Field. Festschrift in Honour of Egyl Bakka. Trondheim: Fagbokforlaget, 2014. ISBN 9788232103713.

STAVĚLOVÁ, Daniela. Traditional Czech Dancing in Historical Perspective. In ÖZTÜRKMEN, Artu (ed.). Müzik Kültur ICTM 20th Etnochoreology Symposium Proceedings. Istanbul, 1998.

STAVĚLOVÁ, Daniela. The Polka versus the Waltz. Czech National Dances in the Political Context of the Neniteenth Centruy. Traditiones 44, 2. pp. 91 - 112.

STAVĚLOVÁ, Daniela. Traditional Dancing on the Stage: Seeking Authenticity. In IVANCICH DUNIN, Elsie and Daniela STAVĚLOVÁ and Dorota GREMLICOVÁ and Zdeněk VEJVODA. Contemporizing Traditional Dance. Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology 2010. Prague 2012, pp. 249 - 256. ISBN 978-80-7331-236-7.

ŠTÚROVÁ, Monika. Milča Mayerová, a Pioneer of the Laban Method in the Czech Lands. Taneční aktuality Speciální vydání 2018, Výročí českého tance. Praha, Taneční aktuality o.p.s., 2018. ISBN 978-80-270-4563-1.

Recommended reading:

BRODSKÁ, Božena. Dějiny baletu v Čechách a na Moravě do roku 1945. Praha: AMU 2006. ISBN 80-7331-047-3.

BŘEZAN, Václav. Životy posledních Rožmberků. Praha: Svoboda 1985.

BUREŠOVÁ, Lucie. Tanec v prostředí aristokratického rodu Schwarzenberků na přelomu 18. a 19. století. Svědectví krumlovských pramenů. In: KOL. Tanec a společnost. Praha: AMU, 2009, s. 108–117. ISBN 978-80-7331-162-9.

ČERNÝ, František. Divadlo v Kotcích. Praha: Panorama, 1992. ISBN 80-7038-210-4.

Dějiny českého divadla, I-IV, Praha: Academia, 1968, 1969, 1977, 1983.

GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota. Tanec jako předmět literární debaty v Čechách na přelomu 18. a 19. století. Nad spisem Ueber Anstand, Schönheit und Grazie im Tanz. Živá hudba, 5, 2014, s. 118-128. ISSN 0514-7735, ISBN 978-80-7331-334-0.

GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota ed. Stopy tance: taneční prameny a jejich interpretace. Praha: AMU, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7331-118-6.

GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota ed. Stopy tance: taneční prameny a jejich interpretace. Praha: AMU, 2008, s. 24–30. ISBN 978-80-7331-118-6.

JAKUBCOVÁ, Alena. Starší divadlo v českých zemích do konce 18. století. Osobnosti a díla. Praha: Divadelní ústav; Academia, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7008-201-0.

KAZÁROVÁ, Helena. Barokní balet ve střední Evropě. Praha: AMU, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7331-130-8. (Speciálně s. 34–41; 97–109; 136–155).

KAZÁROVÁ, Helena. Kdo byl Johann Baptista Danese. Taneční listy, 29, 1991, č. 1, s. 15; č. 2, s. 13. ISSN 0039-937X.

KAZÁROVÁ, Helena. Šlechtická divadla a tanec. Taneční listy, 31, 1993, č. 5, s. 14; č. 6, s. 14. ISSN 0039-937X.

KOL. Tanec a společnost. Praha: AMU, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7331-162-9.

LOMNICKÝ, Šimon z Budče. Tanec, anebo traktát skrowný o tancy. Wytisstěn w Starém Městě Pražském: v Giřijka Nygrina, [1597].

MACEK, Josef. Jagellonský věk v českých zemích. I, II. Praha: Academia 2001. ISBN 80-200-0895-0.

MACEK, Josef. Jagellonský věk v českých zemích. III. Praha: Academia 1998. ISBN 80-200-0629-X.

MACEK, Josef. Jagellonský věk v českých zemích. IV. Praha: Academia1999. ISBN 80-200-0699-0.

PÁTKOVÁ, Hana. Tanec ve středověkých Čechách. Písemné prameny městské a církevní provenience. In:

SMUGALOVÁ, Zuzana; GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota; BUREŠOVÁ, Lucie. Mísa zvaná Hroznatova. Taneční motivy na dílech středověkého uměleckého řemesla. In: GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota ed. Stopy tance: taneční prameny a jejich interpretace. Praha: AMU, 2008, s. 31–41. ISBN 978-80-7331-118-6.

SCHERL, Adolf. Berufstheater in Prag 1680 – 1739. Wien: Verl. d. Österr. Akad. d. Wiss. 1999. ISBN 978-3-7001-2799-4.

SPECHT, Bernard. Ueber Anstand, Schönheit und Grazie im Tanz. Prag 1789.

STRATILOVÁ URVÁLKOVÁ, Eva; STRATIL, Petr. Neznámá známá Waldmädchen. Balet Pavla Vranického. In: KOL. Tanec a společnost. Praha: AMU, 2009, s. 49–67. ISBN 978-80-7331-162-9.

ZÍBRT, Čeněk. Jak se kdy v Čechách tancovalo. Praha: F. Šimáček 1895; Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury, hudby a umění, 1960.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Credit in the form of a written test.

Other requirements: attendance 80%, activity in class, study of required literature.

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The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Dance Pedagogy (BA) - Methods of Classical Ballet Technique - from 2023/24 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Dance Pedagogy (BA) - Methods of Modern and Contemporary Dance - from 2023/24 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Dance Pedagogy (BA) - Methods of Folk Dance - from 2023/24 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)