DANC2102 Dance Workshop and Theory 5

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Overview

Students will be introduced to theoretical approaches to enable the analysis, interpretation, evaluation and contextualising of dance works in the 20th and 21st Centuries. The role of dance writers and critics in documenting and communicating dance will be explored. Modern and Postmodern dance innovators and their works will be studied … For more content click the Read More button below.

Students will examine issues such as gender, popular culture, and social cultural issues, both through a critical investigation of the history of dance, but also through the development of acting skills though which these, and other, ideas and issues are presented to an audience.

Through further exploration of how dancers represent these ideas through performance, they will continue to develop health and fitness tools for a career as a professional dancer.

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Aims

This topic aims to develop:

The ability to research, analyse, interpret and evaluate dance works, both the student's own and others
Greater proficiency and versatility in writing about dance and in discussing ideas in an academically appropriate manner
An appreciation of the dancer as actor, and the multi- disciplinary nature of current dance/theatre practice
An increased ability to rehearse and performance in a safe manner
Knowledge of the movement disciplines of Yoga which engender efficient, integrated mind/body use

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:

Synthesise acting with dance performance

Synthesise dramaturgical approaches with dance performance

Determine physically safe practices in dance preparations

Analyse the processes of theatre making

Communicate the theory and process of professional dance practice

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Dance Workshop and Theory 5

DANC2102