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Academic year 2014-2015Value date : 12/05/2015
THEA0001-1  Esthetics of the living spectacle

Duration :  30h Th
Number of credits :  
Bachelor in Ancient Languages and Literatures, Classics, 2nd year5
Bachelor in Ancient Languages and Literatures, Classics, 3rd year5
Bachelor in Information and Communication, 2nd year5
Bachelor in Information and Communication, 3rd year4
Bachelor in Information and Communication, 3rd year5
Bachelor in Modern Languages and Literatures, German, Dutch and English, 2nd year5
Bachelor in History of Art and Archeology, General, 2nd year5
Bachelor in History, 2nd year5
Bachelor in modern languages and literatures, general orientation, 2nd year5
Bachelor in History of Art and Archeology, Musicology, 2nd year5
Bachelor in Ancient Languages and Literatures: Oriental Studies, 2nd year5
Bachelor in Ancient Languages and Literatures: Oriental Studies, 3rd year5
Bachelor in philosophy, 2nd year5
Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Literatures, 2nd year5
One-year preliminary programme leading to the Master in Performing Arts5
Année préparatoire au master en communication multilingue5
Master in Philosophy, Research Focus, 1st year5
Master in Philosophy, Research Focus, 2nd year5
Lecturer :  Dick Tomasovic
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
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.
Learning outcomes of the course :  
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 and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
General knowledge of theatre's history.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
Each student will have to analyze a spectacle of his choice.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
See http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires
Recommended or required readings :  
Required reading:
  • Patrice Pavis, L'Analyse des spectacles, Paris, Armand Colin, 2005.
Recommended reading :
  • Annie Suquet, L'Eveil des modernités. Une histoire culturelle de la danse (1870-1945), Paris, Centre National de la Danse, 2012.
Assessment methods and criteria :  
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.
Work placement(s) :  
Organizational remarks :  
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

Items online :  
Online Notes
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