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Study programmes 2008-2009Last update : 29/06/2009
THEA0001-1  Esthetics of the living spectacle
Duration :  30h Th
Credits/ECTS :  
Bachelor in information and communication, 3rd yearPremier quadrimestre4
One-year preliminary programme leading to the Master in Performing ArtsPremier quadrimestre4
Holder(s) :  Dick Tomasovic
Language :  Langue française
Course contents :  Initially, the course studies the founders texts of the esthetics of the living spectacle (Aristote, Diderot, Nietzsche, Antoine, Artaud, Brecht...).

In the second time, the course will concentrate on the particular case of the spectacle of dance and his history, from the end of the nineteenth century until our days.

It is in addition requested from the students to see a certain number of spectacles apart from the course.
Course objective :  Well illustrated, this course aims to make discover with the students aesthetic specificities of the living spectacles.

It also aims at bringing to the students a series of fundamental reference marks to understand the particularly creative field of the contemporary dance.
Lastly, the course asserts a methodological aiming.
Prerequisites :  General knowledge of theatre's history.
Workshops :  Each student will have to analyze a spectacle of his choice.
Organization :  See http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires
Written notes :  Required reading:
  • Patrice Pavis, L'Analyse des spectacles, Paris, Armand Colin, 2005.
Assessment :  An oral examination during which the student will have to defend his work and to show of his knowledge and his comprehension of the course.
Contacts :  Dick Tomasovic
Dpt. Information et Communication
Théorie et pratique du spectacle
Place du XX août, 7
4000 Liège
dick.tomasovic@ulg.ac.be
00 32 4 366 32 88


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