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 thinking as possibilities always present as manifestations and strategies for relation, and subjectification.
2. To make a contribution on the questioning and unfolding of speaches that tend to dichotomies like body / mind by sharing 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 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 practical 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 / non-dance, politics, ethics and aesthetics. Analyzing choreographic pieces and articulating them with key moments of dance history. For instance the paradigmatic and poetic movement initiated 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 a video of a performance piece projected in class.
Bibliography
COELHO, Sílvia Pinto (2016), Corpo, Imagem e Pensamento Coreográfico, Da Pesquisa Coreográfica Enquanto Discurso: Os Exemplos de Lisa Nelson, Mark Tompkins, Olga Mesa e João Fiadeiro. Tese de doutoramento em Ciências da Comunicação, FCSH-UNL. (https://run.unl.pt/handle/10362/21393).
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.
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), Exhausting Dance: Peformance and the Politics of Movement, New York, Routledge.
---(2017), Exaurir a Dança: Performance e a Política do Movimento, Brasil, Annablume Editora
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)