| CODE | DCS5005 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Dance Collaboration and Devising | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Dance Studies | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit investigates further approaches to choreography through an exploration of intent, content and context for dance expression. We examine how appropriate choreographic concepts, strategies and devices are used in a range of technical and applied contexts, artistic, educational or interventionist. In developing understanding of praxis of improvisation, imagery and devising approaches we also focus on the relationship of the ensemble and the ability of groups to work collectively, even democratically. Awareness through observation and analysis, social-interactive and communication skills, and the functions of leadership are explored in the contexts of dance, movement and physical theatre. The study-unit will also investigate forms of interdisciplinary collaboration: fusion, interdependency and independence. The assessment for this study-unit will be one of collective or collaborative group, and can be applied in the theatre, site-specific, educational, interventionist or community context. Study-unit Aims - To facilitate the acquisition of improvisational skills appropriate to the specialism. - to introduce a range of facilitation skills within collaborative and devising contexts - to inculcate the capacity to plan and articulate working processes in group applied contexts. - to interrogate issues of interdisciplinary or collaborative devising in performance situations and applied contexts. - to examine questions of interactivity, transmission and significance in performance and performance-related activity - to examine, analyse and contextualise diverse examples of ensemble work and develop appreciation of the work in relation to current practice and its antecedents - to introduce strategies for documentation and analysis of this kind of work Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - articulate and apply a range of facilitation skills within a chosen collaborative and devising context - debate issues of interdisciplinary or collaborative devising in performance situations and applied contexts. - Show the ability to examine and discuss notions of interactivity, transmission and significance in performance and performance-related activity - Show ability to examine, analyse and contextualise ensemble work, developing an appreciation in relation to current practice and its antecedents 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - demonstrate a range of improvisational skills appropriate to the specialism. - clearly demonstrate artistic intention and the capacity to plan and articulate working processes in group applied contexts in a portfolio - to contribute effectively to a group devising process and performance - to demonstrate strategies for documentation and analysis of this kind of work Main Text/s and any supplementary readings Readings will relate to the project design initiated by student group. Some of the texts below may be appropriate: - Amans, D (ed) (2008) An Introduction to Community Dance Practice, Palgrave Macmillan - Boal, A (1994), The Rainbow of Desire: The Boal Method of Theatre and Therapy Routledge (L) - Brockbank A McGill I. (2012) Facilitating reflective learning: coaching, mentoring and supervision, London :Kogan Page - Butterworth J and L Wildschut, (eds) (2009) Contemporary Choreography: a critical reader, Routledge - Byrnes, W. J (2009) Management and the arts, Amsterdam : London : Focal - Fisher, J and B Shelton (2002) Face to face: Making dance and theatre in community Melbourne: Spinifex - Foster, S L (ed) (1996), Corporealities: Dancing Knowledge, Culture and Power Routledge - Hanna, J. L (1987), To Dance is Human: A Theory of Non-Verbal Communication University of Chicago Press - Liebmann, M (ed) (1996) Arts Approaches to Conflict Jessica Kingsley - McFee, G (1992), Understanding Dance Routledge - Novack, C (1990), Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture University of Wisconsin Press - Oddey, A (1994), Devising Theatre: a practical and theoretical handbook Routledge - Shapiro, S (ed) (2008) Dance in a World of Change: reflections on globalisation and cultural difference, Champaign, Il: Human Kinetics - Thompson, J, (ed) (1998), Prison Theatre: Perspectives and Practices Jessica Kingsley - Whyte, W F (1991), Participatory Action Research, Sage - Williams, D (ed) (1999), Collaborative Theatre; The Théâtre du Soleil sourcebook Routledge |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-unit: DCS5003 | |||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Independent Study & Practicum | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Joanne Butterworth |
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