20th Cent. Choreography 2

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Subject guarantor:

Elvíra NĚMEČKOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Elvíra NĚMEČKOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The course aim is to develop the understanding of contemporary choreograpy procedures and approaches, orientation of the students is the forms of contemporary choreogaphies, changes in expressive tools and creative approaches and the use of modern technology.

Mode of study:

contact instruction

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Presumed completion of Dance Analysis, Video-seminar and history lectures. A good bearing in modern dance events is necessary. Linked to Choreography of the 20th Century 1.

Recommended optional programme components:

No elective requirements.

Course contents:

This semester continues the presentation in mapping the forms of choreographic works in experimental works. Individual representatives are selected considering the particulars of the choreographic approach used. This is, for example, the so called American post-modern dance and the influence of minimalism in dance (Judson Church, Twyla Tharp, Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, and others). As well, dance influenced by the visual conception of the abstract, op-art, and happening (Oskar Schlemmer and Bauhaus, Alwin Nikolais), reflected in videodance and its development (Mats Ek, Theresa de Keeresmaaker and others). Buto and other forms influenced by Eastern theatre culture, Tanztheater, particularly the activities of Pina Bausch and her companions, intertwinings of dance and physical (movement) theatre (DV8). Instruction, again, combines a theory presentation with an analysis of dance material and a review of one's viewing experience.

Recommended or required reading:

Adshead-Landsdale, Janet ed.: Dancing Texts. Intertextuality in Interpretation, London 1999.

Banes, Sally: Terpsichore in Sneakers, Connecticut 1987.

Video recordings of choreographies from the Dance Dept. archives and Kylian Foundation in Prague.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lecture

Assessment methods and criteria:

Exercises

Course web page:

Note:

None

Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Dance Pedagogy (Mg) (compulsory optional subject)
• Choreography (Bc) (optional subject)
• Choreography (Mg) (compulsory subject of the main qualification)
• Dance Theory (Mg) (optional subject)