Dance Techniques 3

Subject guarantor:

Monika DIATTA-REBCOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Monika DIATTA-REBCOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

To learn movment in solo improvisation with out preparation in the mind. Simply following - perceiving how our body moves-dances in a space without our rational participation. We allow ourselves to be surprised by what happens, new forms by the body, new movements, discovery of new potential of movement in a space. This technique is similar to dialogue with a greater emphasis on movement in a space. We do and react to our "doing', following and perceiving what our body does in a space.

Practicing movement principles of contact improvisation assists in a better understanding of the human body and its movement potential. We learn an aesthetic perception of movement. We perceive the human body as an instrument of movement. In dancing contact improvisation one works with conscious and subconscious decisions by the dancer, works with the body, emotions, touch contact, movement.

Working with the body in a theatre space awakens an awareness of it. Working with the center of the body and pelvis plays a fundamental role. Improvisation helps personal excellence, connects to an acceptance of oneself, spontaneity and authentic expression. Through dance and movement we can resolve internal conficts, tell stories, follow a prepared script.

Mode of study:

As any dance technique, contact improvisation has its technique-physical exercises which are learned in execution, first of all, through rational understanding. Later that exercise is kept in „muscle memory“ so the movement needn't be controlled by mind-muscle and we are prepared for them before they are performed. Practiced movement prinicples.

The partner for the dance body is for now just the floor. Solo improvisation includes technique exercises such as, reaching, resisting, rolling, collapse, directing, beading, round movements, up-side down, transferring weight from one leg to another. The dancer performs these exercises with an emphasis on releasing the body to the floor, an emphasis on pursuing a beginning (cause) and continuing (result) movement and saves these techniques in „muscle memory.“ Creation of a choreography based on a solo improvisation: We set the movement variations in a choreography to rehearse memory, perception of movement detail and adopting movement precision.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Recommended optional programme components:

Course contents:

Modern dance: „contact improvisation.“ Contact improvisation dance technique briefly is dancer movement in as space without prior movement preparations.

Recommended or required reading:

Not necessary

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Assessment methods and criteria:

Instruction method for Movement and Modern Dance Technique:

1) Regular class 2 hours per week developing principles of movement techniques in contact improvisation

2) A week workshop in the Winter or Summer exam period devoted to additional practice in the Limon-Cunningham techniques and contact improvisation to learn more complex and longer movement compositions and choreographies with those techniques so the students will be able to remember the resulting form and learn to set movement originating from improvisations into choreorgraphies.

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)