History of 20th Century Ballet 1
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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| 107DXX1 | Z | 2 | 2T | Czech | winter |
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
To acquire an overview and sufficient awareness about the efforts to overcome the so called ballet crisis of the end of the 19th century. To understand the contributions of figures who contributed to the overcoming of that crisis. To know a brief biography about them and the most significant works for the development of ballet as an irreplaceable the of theatre in the chronology.
Mode of study
Presentation linked to a study of icongraphy. Selected original texts and samples of recorded choreographic works
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Knowledge from Survey of the History of Dance and Ballet 1 and 2, Introduction to Dance Theory, video-seminar and history lectures from the 3rd and 4th semesters.
Course contents
The ballet crisis at the end of the 19th century, the causes for the loss of artistic credit in ballets. The ballet-Feerie as a problematic genre. Impulses from other arts, which helped, in the end, to make ballet a modern theatre genre:
F. Desarte and his analysis of the expressive abilities of the human body. The influence of Delsartism" on the dance artist. Dalcroze and his work in the field of rhythmic and dynamic sensitivity through dance movement. Dalcroze's Eurythmics, and impact on the area of artistic dance. R. Laban, the genius in the field of movement analysis, the inventor of a new manner of movement thought. His experimental presentations and education activity. Kurt Jooss and his ballets. Green Table as an example of new theme possiblities for ballet.
I. Duncan and her influence on dance arts of the period. The appearance in so called non-ballet music. The idea of concert dance and relation to the ballet genre. Michail Fokin, Vaclav Nijinsky - artists of the first season of Les Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev. Fokin's dance poetry in the spirit of Neo-Romance: Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose, etc. Nijinsky's new movement aesthetic in the Afternoon of a Faun. Collaboration with Stravinsky: Rite of Spring as the future symbol of 20th century ballet. Jeux as the first ballet capitalizing a sports theme. Vaclav Nijinsky as the ideal artist for the 20th century - linked to athletic movement skill with inner acting.
Recommended or required reading
Vrchlický, Jaroslav: Excelsior. Politika Praha 1885
Brodská, Božena: Les Ballets russes. AMU Praha 2001
Brodská, Božena: Dějiny ruského baletu, SPN Praha 1984
Brown, Jean Morrison, ed.: The Vision of Modern Dance. Princeton Book Co.,
Princeton 1979
Siblík, Emanuel: Isadora. Aventinum Praha 1929
Duncanová, Isadora: Můj život. Praha 1932
Jacques-Dalcroze, Emile:: Rhytmus, Musik und Erziehung. Verlag Benno
Schwabe Basel bez data
Nižinská, Romola: Nižinskij. Praha 1940
Tichonova, Nina: Ballets russes. Děvuška v siněm. Art Moskva 1992
Kolektiv: Repertoár Ruského baletu S. Ďagileva (strojopis, knihovna katedry
tance sub TK/390
Fokin, Michail: Je modernismus moderní? In: Taneční listy 4/1966
Fokin, Michail: Memoirs of a Ballet Master. Boston and Toronto 1961
Beaumont, Cyril: Michel Fokin and his Ballets. Reedice Dance Books Londýn
1996
Lifar, Serge: Histoire du Ballet Russe. Nagel Paris 1950
Buckle, Robert: Diaghilev. Paris 1980
Assessment methods and criteria
Credit is awarded based on active attitude towards the presented material and completion of one course test.
Note
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Schedule for winter semester 2021/2022:
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| Thu | 10:45–12:15 | Helena KAZÁROVÁ | computer's classroom Hartig Palace |
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Schedule for summer semester 2021/2022:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Choreography (Bc) (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
- Dance Pedagogy (Bc) (required optional subject)
- Dance Pedagogy (Bc) - Classical Dance (required optional subject)
- Dance Pedagogy (Bc) - Modern Dance (required optional subject)
- Dance Pedagogy (Bc) - Folk Dance (required 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 subject with the possibility of repeat registration)