| CODE | DCS2003 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Dance Theatre | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Dance Studies | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This practical choreography study-unit investigates the philosophies, practices and theories of contemporary dance theatre drawing on selected antecedents from American early modern dance (Graham, Humphrey, Limon), German tanztheater (Laban, Wigman, Jooss, Bausch), the Belgian school (Keersmaeker, Wanderkeybus, Platel) and British physical theatre (Newson, Finnan, Vardimon). These exemplar choreographers have not only explored narrative/characterisation in expressive, symbolic or other stylistic ways; some have created new languages/vocabularies, challenged traditional form and structure, explored liminality or worked with political or literary ideas. These resources will be used as catalysts to extend the quality and articulation of improvisation, choreographic and performance work; new and more sophisticated relationships of concept, form and content will be explored. Students will be engaged with practical research, the reconstruction of excerpts of seminal works, and the creation and development of new dance theatre work which reflects aspects of this unit's themes. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - demonstrate understanding of selected models, theories and concepts of 'dance theatre'; - recognise and be able to analyse stylistic features of this domain and to place them in historical and cultural context; - investigate practically through tasks, improvisations and reconstructions, selected methods and approaches from particular choreographers and/or cultures; - create, develop and perform in small groups some specimen works. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - demonstrate knowledge of selected key practitioners and practices and their cultural and/or historical contexts; - engage in performance and production, based on an acquisition and understanding of appropriate performance and production vocabularies, skills, structures and working methods, aural and visual environment; - engage in small groups in processes by which performance is created, realised and managed, such as the processes of rehearsal, devising, scenography, improvisation, choreography, performer training techniques and production arts. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Boal, Augusto. 2002. Games for Actors and Non-Actors (London: Routledge). - Brooks, L, M. and J. A. Meglin. 2013. ‘Music and Dance: Conversations and Codes’, Dance Chronicle, 36: 137-142. - Climenhaga, Royd. 2008. Pina Bausch (London: Routledge). - Cvejic, Bojana and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. 2012. Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, Bartók (Brussels: Mercatorfonds). - Dance Theatre Journal. - De Keersmaeker, Anne Teresa. 1988. Hoppla! [DVD] Available at: - Fernandes, Ciane. 2002. Pina Bausch and the Wuppertal Dance Theater: The Aesthetics of Repetition and transformation (Peter Lang). - Franko, Mark 2002. The Work Of Dance: Labor, Movement, And Identity In The 1930s (Wesleyan University Press). - Graham, Scott and Steven Hoggett. 2009. The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre (Routledge). - Grau, Andre and Stephanie Jordan. (eds.) 2000. Europe Dancing: Perspectives on Theatre Dance and Cultural Identity (Routledge). - Jordan, S. 2011. ‘Choreomusical Conversations: Facing a Double Challenge’, Dance Research Journal, 43 (1): 43-64. - Keefe, John and Simon Murray (eds.) 2007. Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader (Routledge). - Murray, Simon and John Keefe. 2007. Physical Theatres: a Critical Introduction (Routledge). - Nadine, George-Graves. (ed.) 2015. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theatre (Oxford University Press). -Newson, Lloyd and DV8 Physical Theatre. 1990. Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men, Dir: David Hinton (Dance Videos); 1992. Strange Fish, Dir: David Hinton. (Dance Videos); 1996 Enter Achilles, Dir: Clara Van Gool. (Dance Videos). - Partsch-Bergsohn, Isa. n.d. European Dance Theater: Tanztheater. An Overview of its Past and Present [DVD] (Dance Books). - Preston-Dunlop, Valerie. 1992. Laban Dance Works: Re-Creations from his Chamber Dance Repertoire 1923 - 1928 [DVD] (Laban Centre, London). - Preston-Dunlop, Valerie. 1998. Rudolf Laban: An Extraordinary Life (London: Dance Books). - Reynolds, Nancy and Malcolm McCormick 2003. No fixed Points - Dance in the Twentieth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press). - Servos, Norbert. 2008. Pina Bausch Dance Theatre (Munich: K. Kieser). - Teck, Katherine. 1989. Music for the Dance: Reflections on a Collaborative Art. (Prager). - Tanz-Journal. - Walther, Suzanne. 1995. The Dance of Death: Kurt Jooss and the Weimar Years, (Harvard). |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-unit: DCS1004 | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Independent Study, Performance & Practicum | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Paula Guzzanti Ferrer Margherita Borg Mario Frendo |
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