The Arts History for Dance Professions

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Subject guarantor

Name of lecturer(s)

Lucie DERCSÉNYI

Department

The subject provides Dance Department

Contents

Information on the combined form:

The course is taught in a combined form of contact and non-contact teaching in a ratio of approximately 1:4.

Lectures 10 hours, distance form approx. 40 hours, group and individual consultations by appointment.

The course aim is the introduction of HAMU students to the intersection of culture and art. The course is designed as four semester course divided into the following blocks:

1. Ancient civilization
2. Arts and culture in the European tradition from the antique to the 19th century.
3. Culture and the arts in the 20th century and the present.
4. Extra-European cultures

Individual topics are lectured by experts and specialists from various departments and institutes at Charles University and Czech Republic Academy of Sciences. Occassionally professors from schools outside of Prague and from Slovakia will lecture.

Learning outcomes

The student is oriented in the history of art in the periods discussed.

Prerequisites and other requirements

Prerequisites: History of Dance and Ballet, History and Theory of Music

Literature

File of presentations for individual lectures with links to image and video material.

Required reading:

ARISTOTELES. Poetics. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 9780199608362.

BACHTIN, Michail. Rabelais and his world. Indiana University Press, 2009. 9780253203410.

BENJAMIN, Walter. The Work Of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Macat International Limited, 2018.

E.H.Gombrich. Story of Art. Phaidon 2023. ISBN 978-1-83866-658-3.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Credit is awarded on the basis of submitted notes from the required readings and discussion of them, and on the basis of a written paper in which the student uses the assigned model to develop a reflection on the mythological/heroic epic text read. (2-3 standard pages)

Other requirements: 80% attendance; participation in discussion.

Note

Independent work of the student:

Study of required literature, preparation of written notes.

Written assignments

Formulating questions for consultations

Contact at a distance will be provided:

By phone, electronically (e-mail, Skype, etc.)

Via group communication platform (social networks, moodle, etc.)

Independent work according to thematic areas:

1. Culture and society, man and art, ritual: the student will study the presentation and references in detail, read Giurchescu, Anca; Survival of ritual in contemporary social contexts. Căluş - between ritual and national symbol and find independently on the Internet film examples of contemporary forms of ritual; get acquainted with the content of the UNESCO Intangible cultural heritage website and select 1 example from the list (List), elaborate in written form.
2. Art in Prehistory: student will study the presentation; read Gombrich, Ernst Hans: The Story of Art (pp. 31-42; from internet sources, watch a film version of Peter Brook's Mahabharata (film or series), write a reflection
3. The Art of Antiquity: the student will study the presentation for the lecture, read Gombrich, Ernst Hans: The Story of Art (pp. 43-76) and make notes, select one of the publications on the subject of myths (e.g. from the category of Further Reading), study and write an essay according to the assignment.
4. Art of Ancient Greece and Rome: the student will study the presentation, read Gombrich, Ernst Hans: The Story of Art (pp. 77-113) and make notes, read Aristotle's Poetics and make an excerpt from it, add a commentary on the problem of the so-called three unities in drama based on his/her own study;.
5. Spatial and Temporal Structures and IX. Mentality, Sensibility, Behavior), Burke, Peter: The Italian Renaissance (especially Part II, Art in its Environment), and Gombrich, Ernst Hans: The Story of Art (pp. 125-178).
6. Art of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation: the student will study the presentations, read a work by a representative of the Reformation, and produce an essay

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1. Art of the 18th Century: the student will study the presentation, read Gombrich, Ernst Hans: The Story of Art (pp. 364-406), look up the entry dance or ballet in an 18th or early 19th century encyclopedia, and write a paper.
2. Art and Society in the 19th Century: student will study the presentation, read 1 major epic poem from the Romantic period and elaborate

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1. The Art of Modernism: the student will study the presentation, read Benjamin, Walter: The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility and add his/her own extracts and comments to the lecture, Kracauer, Siegfried: Ornament of the Masses and make notes.
2. Art in the Post-1945 Era: the student will study the presentation, select one novel from the list, read and elaborate; prepare a paper on one selected concept related to contemporary art

Schedule for winter semester 2024/2025:

Schedule for summer semester 2024/2025:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Dance Pedagogy (BA - part time) Classical Dance (Required subjects with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Dance Pedagogy (BA - part time) Folk Dance (Required subjects with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Dance Pedagogy (BA - part time) Modern and Contemporary Dance (Required subjects with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Dance Pedagogy (BA - part time) Dance Education (Required subjects with the possibility of repeat registration)