🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

This course examines the way in which the human body is represented, experienced, approached and studied in different historical periods and practices of dance and performance, with an emphasis on the 20^The and 21^The century. The development and evolution of practices and representation of the body are examined from a historical perspective and placed in an artistic, social and historical context. Through experiential workshops, practical and theoretical approaches to the body are studied with the aim of a fundamental cultivation of performance skills. The aim is to experientially understand the range of aesthetics and creative dimensions and expression of the body in dance and performance. Examples of works and artists experimenting with the interaction between the lived body, technology and/or the digitized image are also analyzed.

Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• recognize and analyze periods and artistic currents from the evolution of contemporary dance and performance
• recognize and examine basic principles of the theoretical framework that governs contemporary dance and performance
• demonstrate an embodied understanding of artistic approaches of the body to dance and performance

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (3 hours)

1. Introduction to the course and experiential workshop
2. Modernism: Dance and Performance I
3. Modernism: Dance and Performance II
4. Postmodernism in Dance I
5. Postmodernism in Dance II
6. Introduction to embodied practices in dance and approaches to kinetic improvisation
7. Introduction to Experiential Anatomy. Phenomenology in performance. (Introduction to Experiential Anatomy. Phenomenology in Performance.)
8. Experiential Anatomy and Performance
9. Lived and Virtual Bodies
10. Emergent Form and Choreographic Composition
11. Introduction to site-specific performance
12. Objects and the Body in Creative Process & Performance
13. Course Summary and Exam Preparation

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• Presentation / Artistic Performance: 100%

• The defined evaluation criteria are available in detail during the courses, and the E-class website

• Face-to-face
• Use of ICT in Teaching, Laboratory Education
• Use of ICT in Communication with Students

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/PDA137/ 

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• Barbousi Vasso (2014) The Art of Dance in Greece in the 20th Century. Gutenberg Editions
• Barbousi Vasso (2004) Dance in the 20th Century. Kastaniotis Publications
• Vounelaki, Clementine (2021) Bodies Differently: 15 Choreographers between the 20th and 21st Centuries. Potamos Publications.

Recommended Bibliography

• Rigopoulou, Pepi (2003) The Body. Supplication and Threat, Plethron Publications

• Garody, Roger, (2008) Dance in Life, 2nd Edition, Iridanos Publications, ISBN : 9603350214

• Barbousi, Vasso (2004) O Choros ston 20o Αιώνα, 5th Edition, Kastaniotis Publications, ISBN: 960-03-3762-4

• Abram, D. (1996) The Spell of the Sensuous. New York: Vintage.

• De Spain, K. (2014) Landscape of the Now: A Topography of Movement Improvisation. New York: OUP USA

• Fraleigh S.H. (2004 ) Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion.Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

• Olsen, A. (2014) The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making.Wesleyan University Press.

• Reeve, S. (2011) Nine Ways of Seeing a Body. Triarchy Press.

• Tufnell, M. & Crickmay, C. (2004) A Widening Field: Journeys in Body and Imagination, Alton:Dance Books.

• Williamson, A. (2014) Dance, Somatics and Spirituality. Bristol: Intellect.