Dance Improvisation - Seminar 1

Course unit code:

107TIS1

Course unit title:

Mode of delivery:

zápočet

Range:

2/T

Type of course unit:

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

Level of course unit:

bez omezení

Year of study

předmět nemá určen ročník studia

Semester when the course unit is delivered

zimní

Number of ECTS credits allocated:

Garant předmětu:

Bohumíra ELIÁŠOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Bohumíra ELIÁŠOVÁ

Study Objectives:

Cílem předmětu je seznámit studenty se současnými metodami taneční improvizace a rozvíjet jejich schopnost improvizace. V dnešní choreografické tvorbě je improvizace jedním ze základních tvůrčích prostředků, improvizační schopnosti jsou nutné jak pro choreografa, tak interpreta.

Mode of delivery:

presentation, classes, exercises

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Extensive dance experience, at best in modern and contemporary dance technique is required.

Recommended optional programme components

A recommended elective element is participation in a class and workshop arranged by another professional institution.

Course contents:

The program includes learning improvisation methods developed by William Forsythe and joining these with principles and procedures of contact improvisation. The course includes relaxation and awareness exercises, learning ideas about Laban's Cube, manners of joining points and direction in the cube, working with an idea of a space developed in time, dynamics and in a space. Development of the perception of one's body space and placing the body in a space and in relation to a group.

The basic principles of contact improvisation - awareness and increase of mutual feeling, working with weight in duet, push, pull, positive and negative space, exercises in leading and following, manipulations, improvisation with and without physical touching.

Solo and group improvisation.

Study materials:

CD-rom Forsyth, William: Improvisation Technologies A tool for the Analytical Dance Eye

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Classes

Assessment methods and criteria

Credit is awarded based on: activity in exercises and class.

Language of instruction:

Czech

Work placement(s):

none

Course web page:

Note:

This course may be repeated.

Further information:

Course may be repeated

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 Pedagogika tance (Bc) (optional subject)
Obor Pedagogika tance (Mg) (optional subject)
Obor Choreografie (Bc) (optional subject)
Obor Choreografie (Mg) (compulsory optional subject)
Obor Taneční věda (Mg) (optional subject)