| CODE | DCS2005 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Dance and Performance Theory | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Dance Studies | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit is designed to develop understandings of dance by introducing a range of ways to experience it. A variety of philosophical and socio-cultural frameworks will be explored, examining how they can be applied to and understood within contemporary dance practice. Each framework provides a different method for experiencing choreography and performance, informing how you engage with and analyse dance. Through a series of seminars and workshops, and through viewing, reading and writing tasks, you will extend your perceptions of dance in its context as a contemporary cultural phenomenon, and raising questions about performance, processes and performativity. You will have the opportunity to select particular frameworks for detailed personal research and presentation through your assessments. Study-Unit Aims: - To inculcate broad understandings of a range of philosophical and socio-cultural frameworks as methodologies for constructing dance knowledge in theory and practice. - To aid the appreciation, employment and critical evaluation these frameworks. - To introduce a range of techniques within these frameworks to initiate and undertake the generation and analysis of data and information. - To instill effective communication of information, arguments and analysis in logical written forms. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Demonstrate critical knowledge, both written and verbally, of a selected range of philosophical and socio-cultural frameworks as methodologies for constructing dance knowledge in theory and practice. - Appreciate, employ and critically evaluate these frameworks. - Use a range of given techniques within these frameworks to initiate and undertake the generation and analysis of data and information. - Effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in logical written forms. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Describe, theorise, interpret and evaluate performance texts and performance events from a given range of critical perspectives use a range of techniques within these frameworks to initiate and undertake the generation and analysis of data and information. - Effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in logical written forms. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Chandler, Daniel. 2007. Semiotics the Basics sec. ed. (London and New York: Routledge). - Giersdorf, Jens Richard and Wong, Yutian (Eds.) (2019). The Routledge Dance Studies Reader, Third Edition. (London: Routledge). Manning, Susan, Ross, Janice, and Schneider, Rebecca (Eds.) (2020) Futures of Dance Studies. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press). - Goellner, Ellen W. and Jacqueline Shea Murphy. 1995. Bodies of the text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press). Supplementary Readings: - Morris, Gay. 1996 Moving Words, Rewriting Dance (London & NY: Routledge). - Pavis, Patrice. (ed) 1996. The Intercultural Performance Reader (Routledge). - Phelan, Peggy. 2005. Twentieth Century Performance (Routledge). - Schechner, Richard. 2007. Performance Studies: an Introduction, sec. ed. (Routledge). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Tutorial | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Deborah Williams |
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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 2024/5. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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