Modern Dance in Europe and America 1

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107MDEA1 credit 3 1 lecture hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 66 to 81 hours of self-study English winter

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Contents

The course, which, together with the follow-up lecture Modern Dance Directions 2, extends the knowledge of dance history, is a detailed introduction to the development of dance in the modern period, focuses on the newly constituted dance style of the so-called expressive dance (Ausdruckstanz) in Europe and modern dance in America, its artistic, cultural and social contexts, origins, forms and main personalities, and places the events in the Czech lands in an international context. The aim of the study is to introduce students to the thought context and artistic manifestations of dance modernism in Western culture, important for understanding the current situation of dance art, its forms and artistic attitudes.

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Learning outcomes

Understanding of the problems of one of the lines of modernism in dance art, understanding of the historical context, including the connection to contemporary events.

Prerequisites and other requirements

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Literature

E-learning:

https://moodle.amu.cz//

Required reading:

BANES, Sally. Terpsichore in Sneakers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. ISBN 0395286891.

BRANDSTETTER, Gabriele; OCHAIM, Brygida Maria. Loie Fuller. Freiburg: Rombach, 1989. ISBN 9783793090526.

BURT, Ramsay. Alien Bodies. London, New York: Routledge, 1998. ISBN 0415145953.

GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota. Traditional dance as a phenomenon inside the Czech modernism. In: INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC. Study Group on Ethnochoreology, DUNIN, Elsie Ivancich, ed., STAVĚLOVÁ, Daniela, ed. a GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota, ed. Dance, gender and meanings; Contemporizing traditional dance: proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology 2010: Třešť, Czech Republic. Prague: Academy of Performing Arts, 2012, s. 241–248. ISBN 978-80-87112-64-9.

HUMPHREY, Doris. The Art of Making Dances. New York: Grove Press, 1959.

BENJAMIN, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Lulu.com, 2021. ISBN 978-1667156071.

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang. Sorrows of Young Werther. Dover Publications, 2002. ISBN 978-0486424552.

GOMBRICH, Ernst Hans. The Story of Art. Phaidon Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0714832470.

NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy. Penguin Classics, 1994. ISBN ‎ 978-0140433395.

SPARTI, Barbara et al. Imaging Dance: visual representations of dancers and dancing. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms, 2011. ISBN 978-3-487-14549-5.

MARTIN, John. Modern Dance. New York: Dance Horizons, 1972.

MAZO, Joseph H. Prime Movers Makers of Modern Dance in America. London: A&C Black, 1977. ISBN 9780713617375.

MILLE, Agnes de. Martha. The Life and Work of Martha Graham. New York: Random House, 1991. ISBN 0394556437

PARTSCH-BERGSOHN, Isa. Modern dance in Germany and the United States : crosscurrents and influences. Chur: Harwood academic publishers, c1994. ISBN 3-7186-5558-6.

THOMAS, Helen. Dance, Modernity and Culture. London, New York: Routledge, 1995. ISBN 978-0415087940.

Recommended reading:

BAXMANN, Inge. Mythos: Gemeinschaft. Körper- und Tanzkulturen in der Moderne. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2000. ISBN 3-7705-3366-6.

BENJAMIN, Walter. Umělecké dílo ve věku své technické reprodukovatelnosti. In: Benjamin, Walter. Výbor z díla I. Literárněvědné studie. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2009, s. 299–326. ISBN 978-80-7298-278-3.

BRANDENBURG, Hans. Der moderne Tanz. München: Georg Müller, 1921.

BROCKETT, Oscar G.. Dějiny divadla. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, Divadelní ústav, 1999. ISBN 80-7106-364-9.

FOKIN, Michail. Protiv těčenija. Leningrad, Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1962.

GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota ed. Pozdní čas českého výrazového tance: Osobnosti, cesty, proměny po roce 1939. Sborník z konference. Pam pam speciál, 10, č. 3-16 (30), prosinec 2016. ISSN 1803-103X.

GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota. Isadora in Bohemian Spas. In: Remembering-Isadora Duncan-Emlékkönnyv. Budapest, 2002. ISSN 1586-4537.

GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota. Taneční umění na scénách Nového německého divadla v Praze/Die Tanzkunst am Neuen deutschen Theater Prag 1888–1938. Praha: Taneční listy; Státní opera Praha, 2002. ISBN 80-238-8488-3.

GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota; NEČASOVÁ, Natálie. Případ Zdenka Podhajská: Umělecký tanec v době moderny. Divadelní revue, 28, 2017, č. 1, s. 37-63. ISSN 0862-5409.

GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota; NĚMEČKOVÁ, Elvíra. Tanec a sport v době moderny. Souputníci a protivníci. In: ŠVÁCHA, Rostislav. StArt : sport jako symbol ve výtvarném umění. V Řevnicích: Arbor vitae ve spolupráci s Českým olympijským výborem a Ústavem dějin umění AV ČR, v.v.i., 2016, s. 193–199. ISBN 978-80-7467-089-3.

Grete Wiesenthal. Die Schönheit der Sprache des Körpers im Tanz. Salzburg, Wien: Residenz, 1985. ISBN: 3701704260.

JAQUES-DALCROZE, Émile. Rytmus. Praha: Průlom, 1927.

KLOUBKOVÁ, Ivana. Výrazový tanec v ČSR: Praha, Brno 1918-1945. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1989.

KRÖSCHLOVÁ, Jarmila. Výrazový tanec, Praha: Orbis, 1964.

LABAN, Rudolf. Die Welt de Tänzers. Stuttgart: Seifert, 1920.

MÜLLER, Hedwig; STÖCKEMANN, Patricia. Jeder Mensch ist ein Tänzer. Ausdruckstanz in Deutschland zwischen 1900 und 1945, Gießen: Anabas-Verlag, 1993. ISBN 9783870382506.

NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Zrození tragédie. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7429-434-1.

PETIŠKOVÁ, Ladislava a VANGELI, Nina. Čítanka světové choreografie. Praha: Konzervatoř Duncan Centre, 2005. ISBN 80-239-6412-7.

PIRCHAN, Emil. Harald Kreutzberg : sein Leben und seine Tänze. Wien: Frick, 1941.

ROBINSON, Jacqueline. Modern dance in France : an adventure 1920-1970. Amsterdam: Harwood academic publishers, c1997. ISBN 90-5702-016-5.

SHELTON, Suzanne. Divine Dancer: A Biography of Ruth St.Denis. Garden City, N. Y., 1981. ISBN 0385141599.

SIBLÍK, Emanuel. Isadora. Praha: Aventinum, 1929.

SIBLÍK, Emanuel. Tanec mimo nás i v nás. Praha: Václav Petr, 1937.

VERNON-WARREN, Bettina; WARREN, Charles. Gertrud Bodenwieser and Vienna´s contributions to Ausdruckstanz. Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999. ISBN: 9057550350.

WEIDT, Jean. Auf der grossen Strasse: Jean Weidt. Erinnerungen. Berlin: Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft, 1984.

Video recordings: the Kylián Library (HAMU Library), or internet sources

BAUSCH, Pina. Café Müller.

BAUSCH, Pina. Svěcení jara. München: ZDF/3Sat, 1978.

CUNNINGHAM, Merce. Beach birds for camera.

Dancemakers : Martha Graham.

DUNCAN, Isadora. Isadora Duncan technique and repertory dance. Hightstown (NJ): Dance Horizons, 1995. 1 videodisk (DVD)

DUNCAN, Isadora. Isadora Duncan masterworks 1905-1923. Hightstown (NJ): Dance Horizons, 1995. 1 videodisk (DVD)

Německý výrazový tanec I. [s.l.]: [s.n.], [s.a.]. 2 videodisky (DVD) (245 min.)

FULLER SNYDER, Allegra. When the fire dances between the two poles : Mary Wigman 1886 - 1973.

HOFMANNSTHAL, Hugo von. Jedermann : Das Spiel vom Sterben des reichen Mannes. Salzburg: ORF, 2004. 1 videodisk (DVD) : (124 min.)

HOFMANNSTHAL, Hugo von. Jedermann Remixed : nach dem Spiel vom Sterben des reichen Mannes ; eine Zeitreise durch neun Jahrzeite Salzburger Fesspiele 1920 - 2010. Berlin: Arthaus Music, 2011. 1 videodisk (DVD) : (90 min.)

HUMPHREY, Doris. Two masterpeaces of modern choreography : With my red fires (1936) ; New dance (1935). Hightstown (NJ): Dance Horizons, 1999. 1 videodisk (DVD)

JOOSS, Kurt. European Dance Theater : an overview of its past and present including interviews and choreography by Kurt Joos and Pina Bausch. Hightstown (NJ): Dance Horizons, 1997. 1 videodisk (DVD)

JOOSS, Kurt. Zelený stůl : Tanec smrti v osmi obrazech.

LÁBÁN, Rudolf. Living Architecture : Rudolf Laban and the Geometry of Dance. London: Anna Carlisle and Valerie Preston-Dunlop, 2008. 1 videodisk (DVD)

LÁBÁN, Rudolf. Laban Dance Works : re-creations from his chamber dance repertoire 1923-1928. London: Laban Centro for Movement and Dance, 1992. 1 videodisk (DVD)

PARTSCH-BERGSOHN, Isa. The Makers of moderne dance in Germany. Part I, 1900 to 1936.

PARTSCH-BERGSOHN, Isa. The Makers of moderne dance in Germany. Part II, 1936 to 1979.

PARTSCH-BERGSOHN, Isa. The Makers of moderne dance in Germany : Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, Kurt Joos. Hightstown (NJ): Dance Horizons, 2001. 1 videodisk (DVD)

Evaluation methods and criteria

Credit awarded based on attendance (75%) and completion of an essay based on required readings of 3-5 standard pages.

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