Contemporary Dance Training 2

Display Schedule

Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
107TST2	Z	2	2T	Czech	summer

Subject guarantor

Andrea OPAVSKÁ

Name of lecturer(s)

Andrea OPAVSKÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The design of individual lessons lead to a gradual adoption of movement principles and methods of techniques of contemporary dance, improvisation and touch techniques, which also contribute to the training of movement memory, developing the muscle appratti, strengthening talent and movement technique level. A general and important metastructure is the development of the recognition and awareness of the movement potential of one's own body which comes from investigating the use of the nature of physics and kinesology. Among other basic starting points is also the self-reliance of the student, respect for one's own body, mutual responsibility for the process and development of the artistic personality of the student.

Mode of study

Exercises applying theory knowledge.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Completion of Modern Dance 1 and 2.

Course contents

Contemporary dance technique represents an open system of training methods which emphasize natural movement expression and effective body function in movement.

Warm-up is focused on an awareness of the basic structure of the body and relations among individual parts in vertical or horizontal positions, their coordination, integration of the periphery and center of the body. Gradually and sensitively the muscle and joint system is activated at all three levels - spinal, lateral and contralateral. The resulting movement phrase in floor wok, center work and work in space uses and develops basic movement principles - fall of the body on a vertical axis, searching for immediate reflection and suspense, developing impulses and sense of springing as motivation for chaning body position, successive movement, awareness of bodyweight, its transfer and use in movement, use of support points, perception of opposition, countermovement - or topics: walking, running, internal and external space, accelleration-deceleration. The final lesson is devoted to countermovement or strengthening stressed parts of the body and reintegration.

In the course of each lesson breath support is repeatedly emphasized, which ensures fluidity and continuity of individual movement sequences, maintenance of ease and freedom in quick and dynamic movement. The breath is deeply linked to the activation of the stabilization system which contributes to the effective organization of any movement. Attention is also focused on precise localized movement initiation and manner of its subsequent articulation which gives movement its clear form. Each movement sequence emphasizes a precise determined spatial orientation of the movement. Indirectly related to this follows a broader attention to the proprioception of space in which the student moves and its their situation in regards to colleagues.

Emphasis is placed, also on changable dynamics, diversity in movement quality and musicality.

Movement principles, during both semesters, systematically repeat and gradually are joined to one another. With this comes an awareness of the internalization of the basics and their use. this are discovered as part of various and complex movement phrases which require a particular necessity of physical and mental concentration by the student.

Students are systematically guided to becoming aware of the methodic continuity of exercises.

Assessment methods and criteria

Credit is awarded based on:

a) 80% class participation

b) written analysis of two workshops on contemporary or modern dance, which the student completed during the Summer semester

c) written review of two contemporary dance performances which the student attended in the Summer semester (Written review and analysis comparing the two evenings/dance conservatory performances.

Note

No notes

Further information

Course may be repeated

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon	room H1041 black studio (Hartigovský palác) OPAVSKÁ A. 09:00–10:30 (parallel1)
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Mon	09:00–10:30	Andrea OPAVSKÁ	black studio Hartigovský palác		parallel1

The subject is a part of the following study plans

Choreography (Bc) (required optional subject, optional subject)
Choreography (Mg) (required optional subject)
Dance Pedagogy (Bc) (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration, optional subject)
Dance Pedagogy (Bc) - Classical Dance (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration, optional subject)
Dance Pedagogy (Bc) - Modern Dance (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration, optional subject)
Dance Pedagogy (Bc) - Folk Dance (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration, optional subject)
Dance Pedagogy (Mg) (required optional subject)
Dance Pedagogy (Mg) - Classical Dance (required optional subject)
Dance Pedagogy (Mg) - Contemporary Dance (required optional subject)
Dance Pedagogy (Mg) - Folk Dance (required optional subject)
Dance Theory (Bc) (required optional subject, optional subject)
Dance Theory (Mg) (optional subject)