| CODE | DCS1001 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Dance Techniques Lab 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Dance Studies | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit consists of technique classes, practice-led anatomy workshops and discussion sessions which will explore concepts of dance performance in relation to the field of professional contemporary dance practice, focussing on the following: 1. The performer's employment of the body as an expressive instrument through: - Kinaesthetic awareness; - Basic skills and practices of dance techniques and their application within the creative process; - The exploration of movement dynamics, rhythm and musicality; - The exploration of the dancer in space. 2. The exploration of the body as a technical instrument through: - Alignment, posture, coordination, flexibility, weight, flow and gravity; - Anatomical, skeletal and muscular structures; - Use of breath, stamina; - Injury prevention. Study-unit Aims: This first technical training lab aims: - To train the body to attain a range of different techniques; - To execute specific stylistic principles with coherence and clarity; - To inculcate a range of spatial and dynamic awareness; - To instil commitment to developing the necessary practical skills for dance and performance; - To enable students to recognise factors which influence their own personal effectiveness in performance. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Demonstrate skills developed in at least two different technical styles; - Execute given specific stylistic principles with coherence and clarity; - Demonstrate rhythmic, spatial and dynamic awareness in a set study; - Demonstrate commitment to developing the necessary practical skills for dance and performance; - Recognise factors which influence personal effectiveness in performance and demonstrate these in written log form. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Engage in performance and production, based on an acquisition; - Understanding of appropriate performance and production vocabularies, skills; - Structures and working methods; - Describe and define key concepts in dance techniques; - Perform under direction; - Prioritise and organise personal schedules; - Identify and articulate personal skills and abilities. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Anderson, Zoe. 2016. The Ballet Lover's Companion (New Haven: Yale University Press). - Arnheim, Daniel D. 1986. Dance Injuries: Their Prevention and Care (London: Dance Books Ltd). - Elsworth Todd, Mabel. 2008. The Thinking Body. A Study of the Balancing Forces of Dynamic Man (USA: The Gestalt Journal Press, Inc.). - Haas, Jacqui. 2010. Dance Anatomy (USA: Human Kinetics). - Horosko, Marian. 2002. Martha Graham: The Evolution of Her Dance Theory and Training, Sec.Ed. (Florida: University Press of Florida). - Howse, Justin. & Shirley Hancock. 2000. Dance Technique and Injury Prevention (London: A. & C. Black). - Isacowitz, Rael, and Karen Clippinger. 2011. Pilates Anatomy. (USA: Human Kinetics). - Koutedakis, Yiannis & N. C. Craig Sharp. 1999. The Fit & Healthy Dancer (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons). - Martin, Peter. 2001. NYC Ballet Workout: Fifty Stretches And Exercises Anyone Can Do For A Strong, Graceful, And Sculpted Body (USA: William Morrow Paperbacks). - Laws, Kenneth. 2008. Physics and the Art of Dance (Oxford: Oxford University Press). - Lewis, Daniel. 1999. The Illustrated Dance Technique of Jose Limon (Hightstown, N.J.: Princeton Book Company). - Preston-Dunlop, Valerie. 1998. Looking at Dances: A Choreological Perspective (Ightham: Verve Publishing). - Siler, Brooke. 2013. The Women's Health Big Book of Pilates: The Essential Guide to Total Body Fitness (USA: Rodale Books). - Stodelle, Ernestine. 1990. The Dance Technique of Doris Humphrey, and its Creative Potential (New Jersey: Dance Horizons). - Sweigard, Lulu E. 2013. Human Movement Potential: Its Ideokinetic Facilitation (USA: Allegro Editions). - Thomasen, E . 1996. Anatomy and Kinesiology for Ballet Teachers (London: Dance Books). - Warren, Gretchen W. 1989. Classical Ballet Technique (Florida: University Press of Florida). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Practical, Independent Study and Group Learning | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Gianluca Blandi Paula Guzzanti Ferrer Sara Accettura Dorian Mallia Julienne Schembri Margaret Jean Westby |
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