Historical Dance Scholarship Seminar 2

Subject guarantor:

Dorota GREMLICOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Dorota GREMLICOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The course aim is to introduce student to the basic procedures and principles of work in history, the range of resources for dance study, institutions, manners of organization and the concept of the professional history of dance topics study. This course is connected to The History of Dance Research 1.

Mode of study:

Discussion, analyses of texts and other resources, excursions, class assignments.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

This course requires a good bearing in dance history issues, completion of „An Overview of the History of Dance and Ballet.“ This course is connected to „Historical Dance Research 1.“

Recommended optional programme components:

No elective requirement for this course.

Course contents:

This course continues the first semester. Greater space is given to the independent activities of the students. They are introduced to the various concepts of historical research and it application in the study of dance. The course content also consists of the study of indirect resources for dance study such as music for dance composition recordings, theatre resources (notices, collections), iconographic sources, literary sources (mentions of dance in biographies, journals, travelogues, letters; dance motifs in art culture). Some cases are used to display manners of working with such sources, their testimony for dance study. A further important part consists in the student paper in which colleagues learn of the process of their course papers, partial results to which they have come to, methodological isses which must be resolved in the analysis of the given resource material.

Recommended or required reading:

Adshead-Landsdale, Janet; Layson, June eds.: Dance History. An Introduction, London, New York 1994.

Zíbrt, Čeněk: Jak se kdy v Čechách tancovalo, Praha 1895, 1960.

Senelick, Laurence ed.: National Theatre in Northern and Eastern Europe, 1746-1900, Cambridge University Press 1991.

Smith, Marian: Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle, Princeton and Oxford 2000.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

class

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on:

active participation in class

completion of class assignments

readings

During the course active work in class, completion of class assignments, reading is required.

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 Taneční věda (Bc) (next compulsory subject)