Basics of Choreography 3

Course unit code:

107ZCH3

Course unit title:

Mode of delivery:

zápočet

Range:

2/T

Type of course unit:

compulsory subject

Level of course unit:

bakalářský

Year of study

3rd year

Semester when the course unit is delivered

zimní

Number of ECTS credits allocated:

Garant předmětu:

Name of lecturer(s):

Jan KODET

Study Objectives:

Choreografie - abstraktní pohybová transkripce hudební partitury v sonátové formě,bez snahy o obsahové vyznění pro minimálně tři účinkující.Připravit jednoduché scénické a kostýmní řešení. Vypracovat choreografický scénář respektující hudební partituru díla.

Mode of delivery:

This course is linked to „Fundamentals of Choreography“ in the second study year. The third year covers issues of the close relationship between music form and choreography, including detail work with a music score.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Choreography study students much be graduates of a dance conservatory or another vocational school of similar significance. They must have been a dancer in a professional ballet ensemble or other professional dance ensemble. The student must pass the entrance process, have talent, imagination, managerial and organizational skills for performing as a creative choreographer.

Recommended optional programme components

No elective requirements.

Course contents:

The relationship of movement and music. The main educational goal is that student choreography to a sonata selected by the student be closely tied to the music composition. The selection of movement tools should faithfully follow the architectural construction of the sonata form in space treatment and dynamics. Also, students prepare a music and choreographic analysis of the scorce which requires ad knowledge of the sonata form. The educational assignment is and abstract transcription of the music score without efforts to contextual messages but free ideas are not limited. The number of performers is open and an on stage execution is required, that is, an idea of a simple choreography stage and costume treatment.

Study materials:

Lois Ellfeldt : A Primer for Choreographers, Waveland Press 1998

Jiřina Mlíkovská : Choreografické etudy, Praha 1964

Jiřina Mlíkovská : Vybrané kapitoly z choreografie, Praha 1990

Jiřina Mlíkovská : Choreografické výklady a etudy, Praha 1995

Doris Humphrey : The art of making dances, New York 1959

Tufnell,Crickmay: Body Space Image,Notes Towards Improvisation and Performance, 1990

Smith-Autard: Dance Composition, 1976

Blom, Chaplin: The intimate act of choreography, 1989

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

lecture, exercises

Assessment methods and criteria

Credit is awarded based on: activity in class and exercises, creation of a movement study.

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 (Bc) (compulsory subject of the main qualification)