Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit 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 learning unit
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.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
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)
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Recommended or required readings
Required reading:
- Patrice Pavis, L'Analyse des spectacles, Paris, Armand Colin, 2005.
- 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
Sans un élément de cruauté à la base de tout spectacle, le théâtre n'est pas possible.
Antonin Artaud
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