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2010/1 Module Catalogue
 Module Code: DAN2016 Module Title: CHOREOGRAPHY TRIO
Module Provider: Dance,Film & Theatre Short Name: DAN2016
Level: HE2 Module Co-ordinator:
Number of credits: 10 Number of ECTS credits: 5
 
Module Availability
To provide a detailed knowledge and understanding of choreographic practices and principles with specific reference to the organisation of time.
To develop creative, practical and critical skills in choreography, especially in relation to the trio form.
To foster increasing autonomy in choosing and planning choreographic work.
Assessment Pattern
Practical x 1 (100%)
Module Overview
Prerequisites/Co-requisites
Module Aims
To provide a detailed knowledge and understanding of choreographic practices and principles with specific reference to the organisation of time.
To develop creative, practical and critical skills in choreography, especially in relation to the trio form.
To foster increasing autonomy in choosing and planning choreographic work.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
A detailed understanding of a range of compositional deveices and structures used in choreography.
A detailed understanding of movement phrasing and its organisation in time.
An apprecation of the communication of meaning through choreography.
Module Content
Methods of Teaching/Learning
The student produces on trio choreography from a directional position.  They are required to implement creative strategies for working with three dancers with a particular focus on the choreographic manipulation of time.
Selected Texts/Journals
Banes, Sally.  Terpsichore in sneakers: post-modern dance.  Hanover: Wesleyan University Prewss, 1987
Blom, Lynne Anne and Chaplin, L. Tarin.  The Intimate Act of Choreography.  Pittsburgh: Pitts Press 1982
Hodgins, Paul.  Relationships between scorre and choreography in Twentieth century dance - Music, Movement and Metaphor.  New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992
Tufnell, Miranda and Crickmay, Christopher.  Body Space Image: Notes towards improvisation and performance.  london:Virago, 1990
Suggested Readings
Cage, John and Boyars, Marion.  Silence, Lectures and Writings.  London: Thames and Hudson, 1987
Cope, David.  New Directions in Music.  Prospect Height III: Waveland (7th edition), 2001
Jordan, Stephanie.  Moving Music: Dialogues with Music in Twentieth-Century Ballet.  London: Dance Books, 2000
Teck, Katherine.  Ear Training for the Body.  Pennington, NJ: Dance Horizons, 1994
Twiner, Anthony, The Muncey Music Book, London:  Dance Books Ltd; 1986
Last Updated
9 October 09