Dance in Context - 1st semester
Code
722011102
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Silvia Tengner Barros Pinto Coelho
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. Recognizing dance and choreographic thought as possibilities always present in the «human» as manifestations and strategies for relation, subjectification and territorialization.
2. To make a contribution on the questioning and unfolding of speaches that tend to dichotomies like body vs mind, giving alternative points of view.
3. To develop strategies that include perception, attention, and sensibility in danced or choreographed situations.
4. Taking the word «position» into account for developing discourse around disposition, composition, presence, movement, posicionality and positioning.
5. Observing some choreographic practices as ethical and aesthetical approaches that place them in a political perspective.
6. To encourage concrete contact with performative practices.
Prerequisites
N/A
Subject matter
Throughout the classes the discussion gives its contribution to dismantle and complexify naturalized pre-conceptions of dance and choreographic practices. Trying to develop pratical strategies to the working issues as we go through the topics of dance studies, dance anthropology, dance history, performance studies, communication and philosophy. Namely by approaching paradigmatic texts and pieces that relate themes as: affect, movement, dance vs non-dance, politics, ethics and aesthetics. Analizing choreographic pieces and articulating them with key moments of dance history. For instance the paradigmatic and poetic movement iniciated by contact improvisation in the context of the sixties. The seminar works as a workshop, allowing each student to previously prepare the text from the bibliography for the class, that will be articulated with a question and with a performance piece projected in video.
Bibliography
Deleuze, Gilles e Guattari, Félix (1992 [1991]), «Percepto, Afecto e Conceito» in O Que é a Filosofia?. Lisboa, Editorial Presença.
Fazenda, M. J. (2012), Dança Teatral: Ideias, Experiências, Acções. (2ª edição revista e actualizada). Lisboa: Colibri Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. (Obra original publicada em 2007)
Gil, José (2001), Movimento Total: o Corpo e a Dança. Lisboa: Relógio D Água Editores.
Guattari, Félix (1993), Caosmose, Um Novo Paradigma Estético. Rio de Janeiro, Editora 34.
Lepecki, André (2006), The Exhausting Dance, New York, Routledge. (Em espanhol: http://ggili.com/es/tienda/productos/agotar-la-danza)
---(2011), «Coreopolítica e Coreopolícia», ILHA vol 13, nº1 Jan./Jun.: 41-60.
Manning, Erin (2009), Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy. (Brian Massumi and Erin Manning, editors) London, England: MIT Press.
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.
In class teaching
Evaluation method
Methodologies:
Sharing relevant questions in a workshop discussion. Watching videos and live performances. Going to conferences (if relevant). Sharing problems, questions, and texts orally.
Evaluation:
- Preparing and sharing a text from the bibliography of the seminar and discussing it with the class: 20%
- Writting a small text describing a live performance, or writting a review of a text, or writting a review of a performance: 20%
- Writting a paper based on a case study, or text based on the articulation of texts related with the seminar. (the project and the presentation of this text are part of the evaluation)