| CODE | DCS1011 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Dance as Communication | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Dance Studies | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This theoretical study-unit investigates questions to do with the communication of dance in lectures and seminars; its codes and conventions; its aesthetic concerns, both generally and in terms of individual choreographers; written documentation of choreographers' intentions and methods, and the ways in which these are received and comprehended by audiences and critics. Study-unit Aims - To gain insights into how communication shapes and informs our social life; - To investigate the main models, theories and concepts used in communication; - To clarify codes and conventions, meanings and signs in Dance; - To contextualise the use of aesthetic understanding in Dance; - To explore intention and reception in relation to dance makers and audiences. Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Demonstrate basic insights into how communication shapes and informs our social life; - Demonstrate basic knowledge of selected models, theories and concepts used in communication; - Clarify codes and conventions, meanings and signs in Dance; - Contextualise the use of some aesthetic categories in Dance; - Communicate ideas about intention and reception in relation to dance makers and audiences through the written word. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Apply theories and ideas from another discipline (the fields of Communication Studies and Aesthetics) to dance and performance; - Communicate ideas about intention and reception in relation to dance makers and audiences through a 2500 word essay. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings Indicative Bibliography: - Abbs, Peter. 1989. A is for Aesthetic (The Falmer Press). - Abbs, Peter. 1989. The Symbolic Order: a contemporary reader on the arts debate (The Falmer Press). - Adshead, Janet. (1988) Dance Analysis: Theory and Practice (Princeton Book Co.). - Banes, Sally. 1994. Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism (Wesleyan University Press). - Chandler, Daniel. 2002. Semiotics: the Basics (Routledge). - Fiske, John. 2010 Introduction to Communication Studies, 3rd edn. (Routledge). - Foster, Susan Leigh. 1986. Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance (Berkeley and LA: Univ of California). - Hanna, Judith Lynne. 1987. To Dance is Human: A Theory of Nonverbal Communication (University of Chicago Press). - Preston Dunlop, Valerie. 1998. Looking at Dances: a Choreological Perspective on Choreography (Kent: Verve). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Independent Study, Seminar and Tutorial | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Sara Accettura Margherita Borg Buhagiar |
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