Teaching Workshop: Practice and Theory Between Dance and Performance
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
The workshop aims to provide, on the level of knowledge, the fundamentals of contemporary dance and its relationship with the world of visual art and, on the level of skills, to experience some compositional methodologies of choreography, ranging from imaginative work to the practice of the body in different spaces.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student will have acquired a basic knowledge of the relationship between visual arts and contemporary choreography and will have experienced a bodywork practice focused on interaction with space.
Lesson period: Second semester
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
1. Historical background: Post modern dance and Judson dance Theatre
2. The archive and dance
Boris Charmantz: Manifesto for a dancing Museum
Xavier Le Roy: RETROSPECTIVE
3. The Live Installation by Maria Hassabi
4. Dance exhibitions, three examples in Italy
Yvonne Rainer: Words, Dances, Films. Curated by Caterina Molteni, Mambo Bologna
Simone Forti. Close to the Heart, curated by Chiara Nuzzi and Alberto Salvadori, Ica Milan
Mårten Spångberg. They Returned Every day at the Same Time to the same Place. Curated by Francesca Verga, liaux
Riccardo Benassi and Cristina Rizzo, TECHNO CASA PLUS, a project by Museion and Bolzano Danza
5.Performing practices as a pedagogical process: Nobody's Indiscipline and "Bodies of Knowledge" by Sarah Vanhee.
6. Three lectures are dedicated to a practical workshop, where some of the aspects discussed during the theoretical lectures can be experimented and reworked. These healthy days are imagined as workshops on writing and practising the body, dance and performance.
7. sharing and collective discussion of the final papers
2. The archive and dance
Boris Charmantz: Manifesto for a dancing Museum
Xavier Le Roy: RETROSPECTIVE
3. The Live Installation by Maria Hassabi
4. Dance exhibitions, three examples in Italy
Yvonne Rainer: Words, Dances, Films. Curated by Caterina Molteni, Mambo Bologna
Simone Forti. Close to the Heart, curated by Chiara Nuzzi and Alberto Salvadori, Ica Milan
Mårten Spångberg. They Returned Every day at the Same Time to the same Place. Curated by Francesca Verga, liaux
Riccardo Benassi and Cristina Rizzo, TECHNO CASA PLUS, a project by Museion and Bolzano Danza
5.Performing practices as a pedagogical process: Nobody's Indiscipline and "Bodies of Knowledge" by Sarah Vanhee.
6. Three lectures are dedicated to a practical workshop, where some of the aspects discussed during the theoretical lectures can be experimented and reworked. These healthy days are imagined as workshops on writing and practising the body, dance and performance.
7. sharing and collective discussion of the final papers
Prerequisites for admission
No specific prerequisites are required.
Teaching methods
Lectures, educational visits, meetings with experts and professionals.
Teaching Resources
There are no texts to study but only the notes taken in class, plus a bibliography that will be recommended during the lessons.
Assessment methods and Criteria
final critical essay
Professor(s)