| CODE | DCS5002 | ||||||
| TITLE | Theoretical Frameworks for Dance | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Dance Studies | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Building on the foundations introduced in the study unit Methods, Concepts and Analysis for Dance, this study-unit requires the student to examine relevant 20th century intellectual and artistic concepts and perspectives in the discipline of dance performance including: - Culture and politics: significant issues related to politics, national identity, cultural exchange and interculturalism; - Theories of gender, sexuality and race; - Intertextuality; - Modernism and postmodernism. The study-unit includes further issues of generic research as follows: - Theoretical bases and their applications; - Awareness of specificity of contexts; - Conducting practical research: praxis, empirical, ethnographic; - Design and analysis of research projects. Study-unit Aims: - To familiarise students with knowledge of a broad range of contemporary frameworks applied in the field of dance and performance; - To develop their ability to contextualise the field of enquiry within the broader history of ideas; - To enable students to identify and apply these frameworks to the analysis, interpretation, evaluation and articulation of a variety of forms of dance performance work; - To help students understand how these theoretical structures can be applied creatively to the conceptual development of new works; - To develop students' abilities to analyse, present and exemplify conceptual ideas in writing. Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - demonstrate knowledge of a broad range of contemporary frameworks applied in the field of dance and performance; - demonstrate the ability to contextualise the field of enquiry within the broader history of ideas; - identify and apply these frameworks to the analysis, interpretation, evaluation and articulation of a variety of forms of dance performance work at the Master's level; - demonstrate understanding of how these theoretical structures can be applied creatively to the conceptual development of new works. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - demonstrate the capacity to design, analyse, reflect on, present and exemplify conceptual ideas in essay form; - communicate articulately and logically in written and discursive academic form. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main readings - Auslander, Philip (1997), From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism Routledge - Banes, Sally (1994) Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism Wesleyan University Press - Bharucha, Rustom (1993), Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture Routledge - Buckland, Theresa, (ed) (2007) Dancing from Past to Present: nation, culture, identities - Butler, Judith (1990) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Routledge - Goodman, Lizbeth with Jane de Gay eds (1998) The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance, Routledge - Lyotard, J.François (1984), The Post Modern Condition: a Report on Knowledge University of Minnesota Press - Midgelow, V.L. (2007) Reworking the Ballet: Counter-Narratives and Alternative Bodies, London and New York: Routledge - O’Shea, Janet (2007) At home in the World: BharataNatyam on the global stage - Pavis, Patrice (ed) (1996), The Intercultural Performance Reader Routledge - Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine (1979) The Phenomenology of Dance (London: Dance Books) - Strinati, Dominic (1995) An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture (London: Routledge) (L) Supplementary Readings - Abbs, Peter (ed) (1989) The Symbolic Order: A Contemporary Reader on the Arts Debate London: Falmer Press - Adshead-Lansdale, J (ed) (1999) Dancing Texts: intertextuality and interpretation London: Dance Books - Claid, E (2006) Yes? No! Maybe…: Seductive Ambiguity in Dance, London: Routledge - Carlson, Marvin (1990) Theatre semiotics – signs of life, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press - Eco, Umberto (1989), The Open Work, Harvard University Press - Fisher-Lichte, Erika (1992) The Semiotics of Theatre Indianapolis: Indiana University Press - Foster, Susan L (2011) Choreographing Empathy: Kinaesthesia in Performance London and New York: Routledge - Oddey A.(2009) Re-framing the theatrical : interdisciplinary landscapes for performance, Palgrave: MacMillan - Phelan, Peggy (2005) Twentieth Century Performance Routledge - Shepherd, Simon & Mick Wallis, (2004) Drama/Theatre/Performance (London: Routledge) |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-unit: Methods, Concepts and Analysis for Dance | ||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Independent Study, Seminar and Tutorial | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Joanne Butterworth Christina Kostoula Brandon Shaw |
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