Dance Improvisation - Seminar 1

Subject guarantor:

Bohumíra ELIÁŠOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Bohumíra ELIÁŠOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The aim of the course is to introduce students with contemporary methods of dance improvisation and develop thier improvisation skills. In today's choreographies improvisation is one of the basic creative tools. Improvisation skills are necessary for the choreographer and performer.

Mode of study:

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.

Recommended or required reading:

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.

Course web page:

Note:

This course may be repeated.

Further information:

Course may be repeated

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 (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)