Dança em Contexto (not translated)
Code
722011102
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Sílvia Pinto Coelho
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1) To expand students´ knowledge to the diversity of purposes and contexts of occurrence of the dance - social, ritual and theatrical - developing the ability to discuss concepts and use them according to the diversity of performative situations.
2) To develop skills of observation and analysis of body movement in time and space, using a very specific terminology;
3) To Study dance as a practice by which individuals and groups express their values, the aesthetic ideals, beliefs, conceptions of gender, worldviews, identities and
experiences, developing skills to mobilize appropriate theoretical concepts to make visible these dimensions of dance, in specific historical and sociocultural contexts;
4) To encourage contact with concrete performative practices
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
The course will be structured in three parts.
I- Discussion on the concepts applied to the practice of dance, namely the concepts of dance and performance, dancer and performer, taking into account the perspectives and discourses produced by practitioners and observers. 2) Methods to observe and analyze body movement in time and space. 3) Discussion of theoretical orientations in the studies of dance, namely the development of dance studies and cultural studies and the contribution of anthropology and communication studies to study the practice of dance.
II- Analysis and interpretation of concrete dance pieces and dance events.
III- Presentation in the form of oral communication of students work in its final phase.
Bibliography
Albright, A., C. (1997). Choreographing difference: The body and identity in contemporary dance. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.
Desmond, J. C., (Ed.). (1997). Meaning in motion: New cultural studies of dance. Durham: Duke University Press.
Fazenda, M. J. (2012), Dança teatral: Ideias, experiências, ações. (2ª edição revista e atualizada). Lisboa: Colibri Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. (Obra original publicada em 2007)
Farnell, B. (Ed.). (1995). Human action signs in cultural context: The visible and the invisible in movement and dance. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press.
Thomas, H. (Ed.). (1993). Dance, gender and culture. London: Macmillan.
Teaching method
Exposition of the concepts and topics, using the audiovisual technologies (cinema techniques and power point), by the teacher.
Participation in these expositions, by the students.
Evaluation method
Participation through discussion and debate made possible by the prior reading of texts (20%). Analysis of a record of a dance, a dance performance or a dance event watched live (20%).
Final work based on a case study or comprehensive reading of texts, which will be presented, first, in the form of oral communication and, by the end of the seminar, in written
form (60%).