2017-18 Fall
(HART 1017)
1 Credit | Can be used to fulfill Common Core Requirement (Core Elective: Arts Area)
Teaching Medium: English
Course Description
This course introduces contemporary dance as a departure from dance traditions, and as an art that focuses strongly on personal creativity. Contemporary dance is thus not only about art making but also exploring personal and social meanings.
Through examining a range of texts and videos from different parts of the world at lectures, students will learn to appreciate different ways in which significant practitioners make dances. They will also be introduced to the historical, social or political contexts, and the ideas that inform these practices. In practice sessions, a range of physical, experiential approaches will be introduced to help students create with movement.
- Identify a range of works and practitioners in contemporary dance
- Identify the aesthetic of different non-traditional dance trainings
- Perform basic dance movements that results from individual creative exploration
- Contribute to creative and reflective thinking processes in an interactive/group situation
Week 1-3: Unpacking the idea of “dance” in modern theatre and art; Elements of Movement
Week 4,6: American and German Modern Dance
Week 7-8: Improvisation
Week 9-10: Dance Theatre
Week 11-12: Preparation, practice, rehearsal and end-of-course performance
Week 13: Assessment of Studio Practice: Demonstration Class
- Cohen, Selma Jeanne and the Dance Perspectives Foundation (eds) (c1998). International Encyclopedia of Dance [e-Resource]. Oxford University Press
- Banes, Sally (1987). Terpsichore in sneakers: Post-modern dance. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press
- Bremser, Martha (1999). Fifty contemporary choreographers. London: Routledge
- Mazo, Joseph H. (2000). Prime Movers: The Makers of Modern Dance in America (2nd ed.). Hightstown, N.J.: Princeton
- Steinman, Louise (1986). The knowing body: The artist as storyteller in contemporary performance. Boston: Shambhala
- Tufnell, Miranda & Crickmay, Chris (1993). Body, space, image: Notes towards improvisation and performance. Dance Books
Enrolment Details
Course Registration : 24-25 Aug 2017Add/Drop : 01-14 Sep 2017
Instructor
Acty TANG
Assessment
| Class Participation | 20% |
| Reflective Journal | 30% |
| Dance Demonstration | 50% |
Class Schedule
Tuesday | 15:00-16:50
(Except 3 Oct)
CYT-G009A&B