| CODE | DCS2015 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Dance Theatre | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 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'; - investigate practically through tasks, improvisations and reconstructions, selected methods and approaches from particular choreographers and/or practices; - create, develop and perform work in small groups. 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 of appropriate performance and production vocabularies, skills, structures and working methods, aural and visual environment. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Keefe, John and Simon Murray (eds.) 2007. Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader (London and New York: Routledge). - Nadine, George-Graves. (ed.) 2015. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theatre (Oxford University Press). - Partsch-Bergsohn, Isa. n.d. European Dance Theater: Tanztheater. An Overview of its Past and Present [DVD] (Dance Books). Supplementary Readings: - 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).. - 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). - 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). - Walther, Suzanne. 1995. The Dance of Death: Kurt Jooss and the Weimar Years, (Harvard). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Independent Study, Performance & Practical | ||||||||||||
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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