| CODE | DCS3004 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Final Choreography | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 10 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Dance Studies | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit requires students to employ selectively some of the principles and methodologies that underlie current practices in contemporary choreography to produce a work of 10-15 minutes with an ensemble of 3-6 dancers chosen from the current cohorts of this programme. The taught aspects of the study-unit are designed to: - Extend skills in compositional approaches through study of selected professional choreographers; - Recognise and articulate choreographic styles; - Make appropriate selection of concept, content, structure and stylistic characteristics; - Manage choreographic process, synthesis, scenography, production and realisation; - Present a statement of intent and detailed production visualisation; - Present detailed description and analysis in production log. Learning Outcomes: 1.Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to create a 10-15 minute contemporary choreography in a chosen style, by: - Demonstrating the skills of generating, selecting, developing, structuring and presenting movement appropriate to a chosen concept; - Understanding and practicing the concepts involved in devising and directing the dance making process; - Showing discernment and awareness of choreographic crafting through each stage of the process from initial intention to performance outcome; - Demonstrating the ability to choreograph with an ensemble of between 3 and 6 dancers, to manage rehearsal effectively and to bring the dance to performance standard; - Self-reflect, appraise and evaluate his/her own choreographic work including reference to production values. 2.Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - 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; - Prioritise and organise personal and others' schedules, rehearsals, time management; - Self reflect, analyse and evaluate one's own artistic work in written form. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Blom, Lynne Anne and L. Tarin Chaplin. 2010. The Intimate Act of Choreography (London: DanceBooks). - Bremser, Martha and Lorna Sanders. 2011. Fifty Contemporary Choreographers, sec. ed. (London and New York: Routledge). - Burrows, Jonathan. 2010. A Choreographer's Handbook, (London and New York: Routledge). - Butterworth, Joanne and Liesbeth Wildschut. 2009. Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader (London and New York: Routledge). - Climenhaga, Royd. 2013. The Pina Bausch Sourcebook: The Making of Dance Theatre. (London and New York: Routledge). - Cunningham, Merce and Jacqueline Lesschaeve. 1985. The Dancer and the Dance (NY: Marion Boyars). - Humphrey, Doris. 1997. The Art of Making Dances (London: DanceBooks). - Jordan, Stephanie. 2000. Moving Music: Dialogues with Music in Twentieth-century Ballet. (London: DanceBooks). - Preston-Dunlop, Valerie and Ana Sanchez-Colberg. 2002. Dance and the Performative: a Choreological perspective – Laban and Beyond. (London: Verve). - Roy, Sanjoy. 1999. White Man Sleeps: Creative Insights, (London: Dance Books). - Sanders, Lorna. 2004. Henri Oguike’s Front Line: Creative Insights, (Alton: Dance Books). - Sanders, Lorna. 2004. Akram Khan’s Rush: Creative Insights, (Alton: Dance Books). - Tharp, Twyla. 2007. The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life, (New York: Simon and Schuster). - Selected videography |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Blended Learning | ||||||||||||
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