Methodology of Modern Dance 8

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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

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:

Bartal L., Ne´eman N.: Movement awareness and creativity. UK: Dance Books Ltd.

Bertherat, Bernstein: The body has its reasons: self-awareness through conscious movement. UK: Dance Books Ltd., 1995.

Bloom K.: Moves: A Sourcebook of Ideas for Body Awareness and Creative Movement (Performing Arts Studies). Taylor&Francis, 1998.

Feldenkrais M.: Feldenkraisova metoda. Pohybem k sebeuvědomění. Praha: Pragma, 1996.

Johnson, Don Hanlon: Bone, breath and gesture. UK: Dance Books Ltd., 1995.

Jowitt Deborah: Not just any body, advancing health, well-being and excellence in dance and dancers. UK: Dance Books Ltd., 2001

Olsen.A.: Bodstories. New York: Station Hill Press, 1991.

Parková G.: Umění proměny. Praha: Alternativa, 1996.

Rolf I.: Rolfing a realita těla: Pracujte s přirozenou tělesnou gravitací. Praha: Pragma, 1999

Wildman F.: Feldenkrais a jeho metoda - cvičení pro každý den. Praha: Pragma, 1999.

Calais-Germain, B.: Anatomie der Bewegung (Technik und Funktion der Körpers). Wiesbaden, 2.Auflage, 1999.

Fitt S..: Dance Kinesiology. New York: Shirmer Books, 1988.

Huwyler J.: The dancer´s body, a medical perspective on dance and dance training. UK: Dance Books Ltd., 2005.

Howse J.: Dance Technique and Injury Prevention. Theater Arts Book, 2000.

Franklin E.: Conditioning for Dance. Human Kinetics Publishers, 2003.

Franklin E.: Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery. USA: Human Kinetics, 1996. *

Koniak M., Leško, M.: Biomechanika. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 1984.

Lánik V.: Kineziológia. Martin: Osveta, 1992.

Laws H.: Fit to dance 2. UK: Dance Books Ltd., 2005.

Matt Pamela: A Kinestetic Legacy. USA: CMT Press, AZ, 1993.

Solomon R., Solomon J., Minton S.: Preventing Dance Injuries. Human Kinetics Publishers, 2005.

Sweigard, L.: Human movement potential. New York: Harper&Row Publishers, 1974.

Todd M. E.: The Thinking Body. New Yourk: Dance Horizons, 1937, 1968. *

Cohen B.B.: Sensing, feeling and action. Contanct Editions, Northampton, MA, 1993

Hartley, L.: Wisdom of the Body Moving. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 1995.

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.

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