Methodology of Modern Dance 8

Subject guarantor:

Andrea OPAVSKÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Andrea OPAVSKÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

These lectures serve the development and consolidation of teaching skills, comprehensive considerations of movement with a sensitivity to detail and consideration of anatomical relationships. This course supports the development of one's creativity, movement research and analyses, forming one's individual teaching style. The aim, also, is to acquire teaching practice which is consulted and for which feedback is given.

Mode of study:

Instruction is through exercises and analyses of various manners of instruction recorded on DVD. Part of the course is independent teaching at a dance conservatory and subsequent analysis through discussion.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Completion of Modern Dance Methods 5-7

Recommended optional programme components:

A recommended element is participation in dance education classes and worshops arranged by other institutions. An interest in contemporary Czech and World dance choreography is required.

Course contents:

The movement dictionary of contemporary dance is not codified and does not exist, nor any system of fixed exercises. Its method is based, primarily, on a clarification and adoption of movement principles and various methods whose basis is the effective functioning of the body. Emphasis is place on verifying methodic and didactic knowledge and skills in dance teaching.

Students teach:

a) work with a selected movment topic, investigate manners of how to develop it and based on this design the given lesson.

b) new-found movement principles used and researched in the creation of one's movement material.

c) maintain a logical link of movement sequences

d) properly analyse the given movement

e) adapt the difficulty of dance variations for various levels of students

f) compose movment games into instruction, working with pairs or groups

g) work with space, with music (or sound, silence) and time

h) find one's style of teaching

i) communicate with a coach

Recommended or required reading:

Feldenkrais, Moshé: Awarness through movement (Pohybem k sebeuvědomění). Praha, 1996

Lewis, Daniel: The Illustrated Dance Technique of José Limón. New York, 1984

Schurr, Gertrude; Yoccom, Rachael D.: Modern Dance. Techniques and Teaching. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1949

Horosko, Marianne: Martha Graham. The Evolution of her Dance Theory and Training. Pennington, 1991

Stewart, Virginia: Modern Dance. New York, 1991

Stodelle, Ernestine: The Dance technique of Doris Humphrey. Princeton, 1978

Warren, Larry: Lester Horton, Modern Dance Pioneer. New York, 1991

Cohan Robert, The Dance Workshop. London, 1986

Cohen, Bonnie Bainbridge: Sensing, Feeling, and Action. Northampton, 1993.

Novack, Cynthia Jean: Sharing the Dance. Madison, 1990.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

exercises, classes

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on:

a) 80% class participation

b) Written analysis of two workshops in modern or contemporary dance, which the student completed in the Winter semester.

c) Written review of two performances of contemporary dance which the student attended in the Summer semester

d) Instructing a practice in a class for „Methods of Contemporary Dance“

e) Minimum 4 hour teaching practice at a dance conservatory and two hours listening.

Course web page:

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Note:

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Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

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The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Obor Pedagogika tance (Mg) (compulsory subject of the main qualification)