20th Cent. Choreography 1

Subject guarantor:

Elvíra NĚMEČKOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Elvíra NĚMEČKOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The course aim is to develop the understanding of contemporary choreograpy procedures and approaches, orientation of the students is the forms of contemporary choreogaphies, changes in expressive tools and creative approaches and the use of modern technology.

Mode of study:

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.

Recommended or required reading:

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

Course web page:

Note:

None

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Obor Pedagogika tance (Mg) (compulsory optional subject)
• Obor Choreografie (Bc) (optional subject)
• Obor Choreografie (Mg) (compulsory subject of the main qualification, optional subject)
• Obor Taneční věda (Mg) (optional subject)