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)
Face to face.
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
Département Médias, Culture et Communication
Théories et pratiques du spectacle
Esthétique du cinéma et des arts audiovisuels
Université de Liège
Place du XX Août, 7
4000 Liège
Belgique
32 4 366 32 88 ou 32 79 (secrétariat)
dick.tomasovic@uliege.be
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
- The whole course.
Assessment methods
The oral exam is replaced by a work to be done at home: a detailed analysis of a show left to the choice of the student. This analysis must demonstrate his knowledge and understanding of the subject considered during the course. Exceptionally, due to the health context, the student is authorized to analyze an audiovisual recording of a dance performance.
Contacts
Dick Tomasovic
Département Médias, Culture et Communication
Théories et pratiques du spectacle
Esthétique du cinéma et des arts audiovisuels
Université de Liège
Place du XX Août, 7
4000 Liège
Belgique
32 4 366 32 88 ou 32 79 (secrétariat)
dick.tomasovic@uliege.be