Training of Classical Ballet Technique 2

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107TCBT2 credit 2 2 exercise hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 29 to 39 hours of self-study English summer

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Contents

The course includes practicing classical dance techniques. It is primarily a practically guided class, focusing on a regimen of training professional sequence of exercises.

The aim of the study is systematic exercise leading to an increase in fitness - physical and cognitive.

Thematic areas:

The basic form of classical dance training, from the simplest steps and links to more complex combinations

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Learning outcomes

Detailed knowledge of classical dance technique, i.e. a movement „vocabulary“ of 600 pas and tempos, all positions, poses and placements of the feet, legs, arms, wrists, torso (hips, waist, shoulders, shoulder blades) and head.

Advanced coordination and conditioning execution of all classical exercises.

Prerequisites and other requirements

Literature

Recommended reading:

BEAUMONT, Cyril W. A manual of the theory and practice of classical theatrical dancing. London: C. W. Beaumont, 1932.

HAJN, Miroslav. V. Kostrovická: Sto urokov klassičeskogo tanca: Sto hodin klasického tance: překlad a metodické zpracování části věnované vyšším ročníkům tanečních konzervatoří. Praha, 1998.

JANEČEK, Václav. Metodika klasického tance v umělecké škole. Praha: O.K.O, 1993.

KARSAVINA, Tamara Platonovna. Ballet technique: a series of practical essays. London: Adam and Charles Black, c1957.

KOSTROVICKAJA, V. 100 urokov klassičeskogo tanca (s 1 po 8 klass). Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1972.

KOSTROVICKAJA, V. Škola klassičeskogo tanca. Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1968.

LIFAR, Serge. Traité de danse académique. [Paris]: Bordas, 1949.

MESSERER, Asaf. Classes in Classical Ballet. Limelight, 2007. ISBN 978-0879103446.

SCHORER, Suki. Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique. Florida: University Press of Florida, 2006. ISBN 978-0813029771.

TARASOV, Nikolaj Ivanovič. Klasický tanec: škola mužské interpretace. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1983.

VAGANOVA, Agrippina Jakovlevna. Základy klasického tance. Praha: SPN, 1980.

WARREN, Gretchen Ward a Susan COOK. Classical ballet technique. Tampa: University of South Florida Press, c1989. ISBN 0813008956.

E-learning: https://moodle.amu.cz/course/view.php?id=310à

Evaluation methods and criteria

Credit is awarded on the basis of a test of knowledge, dexterity and skill in practicing established links in the structure of classical dance training.

Other requirements. 75 % attendance.

Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

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