Folk Dance Training 2

Subject guarantor:

Marie FRIČOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Marie FRIČOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Mastery of dances and their variations from Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia with emphasis on a knowledge of regional characteristics.

Mode of study:

exercises

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Active participation in lessons. Creation of a warm-up for folk dance technique and knowledge of a selected dance.

Recommended optional programme components:

No elective requirements for this course.

Course contents:

Expansion of knowledge of dance steps and their variations: Students are introduced to additional dance steps and their regions. Effort is made to match the character of the step as much as possible. Steps are practiced in larger and smaller phrases and complicated floor movements. Dance steps: Lachian Polka, Elements of the Wallachian and Lachian Odzemek, Verbuňk figures, Mazur Polka, Russian Polka and other special dance steps.

Step material in regional characters: For each individual region a movement training is prepared which the students go through before studying the entire dance from a given region. Performing this step in various folklore regions maz be very diverse and so the student has the opportunity to learn that diversity. This is the foundation stone of the color of our folk dance.

Dances of other regions and their local variations: The most typical regional dances are covered individually: Central Bohemia - Dupák, Pětičtvrteční, Kalamajka: Central Bohemia - Křižák, Ruská Polka (two reels): West Bohemia - Furiant, Rokycanská, Pantoflíčky, Talián: Southern Bohemia - Doudlebská Polka, Přibíračka: Silesia - Čihaný, Vrtek: Lachia - Dratenik, Ondraš, Dymak, Kohut: Wallachian - Jánošík, Starodávný, Raubšícký, Šotyška: Moravia-Slovakia - Sedlácké, Verbuňk. Some dances have multiple variations. We compare them and subsequently enrich our ideas, adjusments and changes appropriate for the given dance.

Recommended or required reading:

Bonuš, František; Kos, Bohumil; Mišurec, Zdenek: Zbojnické písně a tance, Praha 1953.

Seidl, Jan; Špičák, Josef: Zahrajte mi do kola, Praha 1945.

Kos, Bohumil: Lidové tance ve školní tělesné výchově, SPN Praha 1983.

Jelínková, Zdenka: Valašské tance, Praha 1954.

Jelínková, Zdenka: Lidové tance z Kopanic, Brno 1957.

Socha, Vincenc: Lašské tance, vlastní náklad 1950.

Janáček, Leoš: Národní tance na Moravě, Praha 1987.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

This course is directly linked to Folk Dance Practice 1, expanding its content to technically more challenging dance steps and dances, dances and their variations from Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia with an emphasis on a knowledge of the regional characteristics.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on:

activity in exercises

Course web page:

Note:

none

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