Dance in Europe after 1945 1

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Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
107EDA1	credit	3	1 lecture hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 66 to 81 hours of self-study	English	winter

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Learning objectives:

The course Dance in Europe after 1945 1 takes the form of a lecture, providing an overview of the development of ballet/artistic dance, especially in Europe in the post-1945 period, and the distinctive tendencies, approaches and forms of artistic dance and other selected issues. It seeks to depict the situation in both parts of the divided Europe, common features and specificities, and mutual interactions. The events in Czechoslovakia are also set in the European context. In addition to the interpretation and study of literature, film footage of choreographic works and other materials form a substantial part of the content. In the first part of the course, the interpretation proceeds chronologically and in a broader cultural and social context.

The aim of the study is to provide students with knowledge of the development and forms of dance art of the immediate past as a basis for understanding the present situation, forms and place of dance in contemporary culture.

Thematic areas:

Periodization, required readings, and other study materials; overview of forms of dance art after 1945 (video excerpts);

Period 1945-1960 - socio-political situation, philosophy and art - phenomenology, structuralism, existentialism, absurd drama, socialist realism;

Dance art 1945-1960: tendencies, personalities, works, comparison between West and East; Maurice Béjart and Roland Petit;

European art and culture of the 1960s; „new“ art, postmodernism; consumerism and mass culture

Dance art of 1960s - new centres (Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Israel), new influences - American modern dance, jazz dance, African and Asian dance cultures;

Dance art in Czech lands in the 1960s – Pavel Šmok, Luboš Ogoun, František Pokorný, Dance company AUS, amateur dance movement – ensembles VUS, Chorea Bohemica - Alena Skálová, pantomime; Comparison of Romeo and Juliet by J. Cranko and M. Kůra;

Social and political situation of the 1970s and 1980s, interpretative approaches in the humanities, cultural anthropology;

Dance art in the Western Europe - new tendencies - minimalism, butoh, structural and contact improvisation, video dance; emigration from the East, boom of personalities – M. Ek, Tanztheater, J. Cranko's pupils, G. Tetley

Learning outcomes

Knowledge of the development of dance culture in Europe after 1945 in both theoretical and artistic contexts, development of a body of knowledge and the ability to place phenomena in context and to reflect critically on them, familiarity with an extensive body of dance recordings from the period.

Prerequisites and other requirements

none

Literature

E-learning studying materials

Required reading:

BAUMAN, Zygmunt. Postmodernity and its Discontents. New York: New York University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-7456-1791-3.

BING-HEIDECKER, Liora. How to Dance after Auschwitz? Ethics and Aesthetics of Representation in John Cranko’s Song of My People-Forest People-Sea. Dance Research Journal, Vol. 47, No. 3 (December 2015), pp. 5-26. Available online https://www.jstor.org/stable/43966887.

KIRSTEIN, Lincoln ed. Ballet and modern dance: with contributions by leading choreographers, dancers and ctitics. London: Octopus Books, c1974. ISBN 0-7064-0322-3.

STAVĚLOVÁ, Daniela; BUCKLAND, Theresa Jill eds. Folklore Revival Movements in Europe post 1950. Shifting Contexts and Perspectives. Prague: Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2016. ISBN 978-80-88081-22-7.

One novel by Albert Camus or Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Video-recordings – online or in the Library of HAMU

Up to 1959

A. Tudor: Lilac Garden

R. Petit: Le jeune home et la mort (1946)

R. Petit: Carmen (1949), as a film Black Tights (1960), with Baryshnikov (1980)

L. Lavrovsky: Romeo and Juliet (film 1954). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbc41CB1r5Y&frags=pl%2Cwn

M. Béjart: The Rite of Spring (1959), recording 1971. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLZCbcO2_2I&frags=pl%2Cwn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAxHw4YoQaA&frags=pl%2Cwn

1960s

M. Béjart: Bolero (1960)

Jorge Donn