| CODE | DCS5004 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Craft of Choreography | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Dance Studies | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit engages the student in understanding of the making of dance through three major concepts of choreography, performance and appreciation. Through practical classes, seminars and workshops which allow a practical-theoretical approach to dance making in artistic-aesthetic context, students will be asked to explore, investigate and critique: - Strategies for the creation and development of dance content - Choreographic languages, and models of approach - Development of a personal language - Time and space perspectives, rationale, development of content and structure - Linear and non-linear form - Performative contexts for contemporary choreography - The documentation of dance - Analysis and criticism as evaluation, interpretation and reflexive mechanism The daily practical workshop will again function as a laboratory for improvisation, task-based learning and problem solving as individuals and in small-group situations, providing material for regular sharing and discussion. Guest choreographers from a variety of professional backgrounds are invited to work with the group, running a Choreographic Lab and sharing personal approaches to dance-making through presentations of a range of work as a focus for questions and debate. Students will be encouraged to make work for assessment that relates to personal interests and if possible within the context of their work situation. Study-unit Aims - To facilitate development and application of dance-making skills appropriate to this level of the specialism - To inculcate broad knowledge of current practitioners and theorists active in the field - To aid the capacity to plan and articulate appropriate working processes and to clearly conceptualise artistic intention - To facilitate the ability to examine, analyse and contextualise various manifestations of dance-making - To aid appreciation of the position of the students' own work in relation to current practice and its antecedents - To encourage in-depth capacity for analysis and self-criticism Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - apply dance-making skills in a performance context appropriate to an advanced level of the specialism - conceptualise artistic intention, and the capacity to plan and articulate the chosen working process - examine, analyse and contextualise various manifestations of dance-making - examine critically their own work and position it in relation to current practice and its antecedents 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: Demonstrate creative powers, the capacity for craftsmanship, the ability for self-reflection and analysis, and the ability to organise pieces of choreography from concept to performance. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings Recommended - Adshead, J (ed) (1987), Choreography; Principles and Practice, NRCD University of Surrey - Alexander, E (1998) Footnotes: six choreographers inscribe the page G + B Arts International - Banes, S (1994), Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism Hanover, New Hants: Wesleyan Univ. Press - Butterworth, J & Clarke G (1998), Dance Makers Portfolio: Conversations with Choreographers CDTSBH(L) - Butterworth, J and L Wildschut (2009) Contemporary Choreography: A critical reader, Routledge - Carter, A and J O'Shea (2010), The Routledge Dance Studies Reader, 2nd edition London: Routledge - Carter, A (2004), Rethinking Dance History: a Reader London: Routledge - Cass, J (1999) The Dance: A Handbook for the Appreciation of the Choreographic Experience Jefferson, NC: McFarland - Coton, A V (1975), Writings on Dance 1938-68 London: Dance Books - Cunningham M & Lesschaeve, J (1985), The Dancer and the Dance NY: Marion Boyars - Fernandes, Ciane, (2002) Pina Bausch and the Wuppertal Dance Theater: The Aesthetics of Repetition and transformation, Peter Lang - Hawkins, Alma (1991), Moving from Within: A New Method of Dance Making Chicago: A Cappella - Hawkins, Eric (1992), The Body is a Clear Space and other Statements on Dance NJ: Dance Horizons - Hodgins, P (1992) Relationships between Score and Choreography in 20th Century Dance: Music, Movement and Metaphor NY, Ontario and Dyfed: Edwin Mellen Press - Preston-Dunlop Valerie (1998) Rudolf Laban: An Extraordinary Life. London: Dance Books - Preston-Dunlop, Valerie & Ana Sanchez-Colberg (2002) Dance and the Performative: a choreological perspective, - Laban and Beyond London: Verve - Roy, Sanjoy (1999) White Man Sleeps: creative insights London: Dance Books - Sanders, Lorna (2004) Henri Oguike’s Front Line: creative insights Alton: Dance Books - Sanders, Lorna (2004) Akram Khan’s Rush: creative insights Alton: Dance Books - Tuffnell, Miranda & C Chrickmay (1990) Body – Space – Image: Notes towards Improvisation, London: Dance Books - Tufnell, Miranda & Chris Chrickmay (1994) A Widening Field: Journeys in Body and Imagination - Versteeg, Coos (ed) Dancing Dutch: Contemporary dance in the Netherlands Theater InstituutNederland Journals: - Ballett International - Dance Theatre Journal - Dance Research Journal - Research in Dance Education |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Practical, Independent Study & Tutorial | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Francesca Tranter |
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