Dance Techniques 1

Subject guarantor:

Monika DIATTA-REBCOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Monika DIATTA-REBCOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Lessons of modern dance by Monika Rebcová for beginners contains and introduction to basic dance techniques of the dance instructors and choreographers Jose Limon and Merce Cunningham.

Mode of study:

Precise position, movement and working with the legs, trunk, head and arms are instructed. These exact movements, performed in exact form, which is based on a rational understanding of the form of the body and shape, as the case may be, stopping of movement, are executed in coordination: brain-appropriate muscle-coordinated movement of the whole body and its parts. Important is the proper posture, placing the legs (turned or in parallel position, brushes, opening legs, high legs, bending legs, circling legs), placement of the trunk (vertical, curved forward, flat back forward, tilt, arch, twist) placement of the arms (first, second, third, position, each hand in another position, etc.), individual parts of the body, finally in coordinated movments composing together (such as: a Lego building).

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

We do not use it.

Recommended optional programme components:

Course contents:

Basic exercises and simple dance variations on the location which practice those dance techniques with an emphasis on the alternation of muscle tension and relaxation and proper breathing. Exercising of individual parts of the body separately. Creation and instruction in posture, foot movement, setting the hips in parallel and twist positions, working the trunk and back, successional arms, use of head weight, pelvis.

Recommended or required reading:

Not necesary.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Assessment methods and criteria:

Grading method and criteria in movement and modern dance technique are the same:

Winter semester: 100% atttendance at classes 2 hours per week and at the weekly workshop arranged in the exam period

Completion of the summary exam at the end of the semester for the receipt of credit

Summer semester: 100% atttendance at classes 2 hours per week and at the weekly workshop arranged in the exam period

Completion of the summary exam at the end of the semester for the receipt grading in the form of an exam.

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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:

• Herectví se zaměřením na autorskou tvorbu a pedagogiku (Mgr.) (optional subject)
• Herectví se zaměřením na autorskou tvorbu a pedagogiku (Bc.) (optional subject)