20th Cent. Choreography 1

Course unit code:

107CHD1

Course unit title:

Mode of delivery:

zápočet

Range:

2/T

Type of course unit:

Study plan Obor Choreografie (Mg) – compulsory subject
Study plan Obor Taneční věda (Mg) – compulsory optional subject

Level of course unit:

Year of study

Study plan Obor Choreografie (Mg) – 1st year

Semester when the course unit is delivered

zimní

Number of ECTS credits allocated:

Garant předmětu:

Elvíra NĚMEČKOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Elvíra NĚMEČKOVÁ

Study Objectives:

Cílem předmětu je rozvíjet pochopení současných choreografických postupů a přístupů, orientaci studentů v podobách současné choreografické tvorby, proměnách výrazových prostředků a tvůrčích postupů, využití moderních technologií.

Mode of delivery:

contact instruction

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

This course requires the completion of Dance Analysis, Video-seminar and history lectures. A good bearing in contemporary dance events is necessary.

Recommended optional programme components

No elective requirements.

Course contents:

In the first semester the instruction focuse on changes in the two basic forms aod modern dance arts: the narrative form and pure dance form, which does not depend on extra-dance significance. This follows the changes of both types from the beginning of the 20th century to the present with an effort to find types of development, mutual contexts. The theory presentation in combined with watching video recordings of selected works and their analyses. These are the works of Michail Fokin (Petruška), Antony Tudor (Lilac Garden), Roland Petit (Carmen), Yuriy Grigorovich (The Legend of Love), John Neumeier (Othello), and Mats Ek (The House of Bernard Alba) in the area of narrative dance form. The works of Michail Fokin (Les Sylphides), George Ballanchine (Appolon Musagetes), Roland Petit (The Four Seasons), Jiří Kylián (Whereabouts Unknown) and others for the area of pure dance.

Study materials:

Adshead-Landsdale, Janet ed.: Dancing texts. Intertextuality in Interpretation, London 1999.

Cohen, Selma Jeanne: Next Week, Swan Lake, Connecticut 1982.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lecture

Assessment methods and criteria

exercises

Language of instruction:

Czech

Work placement(s):

none

Course web page:

Note:

None

Schedule for winter semester 2011/2012:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2011/2012:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

Obor Choreografie (Mg) (compulsory subject of the main qualification)
Obor Taneční věda (Mg) (optional subject)