Duration
30h SEM
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
Audience This seminar is open to Master's students in Art History and Archaeology (general and Musicology tracks), as well as to Bachelor's students enrolled in the "Performing Arts" minor.
Description The seminar explores the Baroque repertoire, both lyrical and choreographic, through the keen interest it has generated in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Rediscovered in the second half of the 20th century, this repertoire has sparked genuine enthusiasm among contemporary stage directors, musicians, and choreographers.
Through a selection of works chosen in consultation with the students, the course will examine the relationships contemporary creators maintain with this repertoire from the past.
Several preliminary sessions, delivered ex cathedra, will aim to provide conceptual tools and key reference points related to this phenomenon:
- the concept of "Baroque" in music and dance;
- the concept of "authenticity" in music and dance;
- the role of theatricality in the 17th and 18th centuries;
- the emergence of the Baroque stage in contemporary performance;
- the diversity of practices (ranging from historically informed performance to reinterpretation or recreation).
These works reflect diverse readings, artistic approaches, and research processes, all of which maintain complex relationships with both cultural heritage and contemporary concerns-relationships that will be critically examined during the seminar.
The seminar thus focuses on how today's artists engage with the past-particularly its sources-and on the role of contemporary creation in the rediscovery of early lyrical and choreographic repertoire.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The aim of the course is to provide students with the necessary methodological and theoretical tools to develop a critical comment relating to a composition, taking into consideration the theoretical substrate in which it emerges and on which its reception is conditioned.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The oral teaching will therefore be complemented by readings, slideshows, and videos.
It will be based partly on ex cathedra lectures that include space for discussion and debate, and partly on presentations prepared by students who wish to participate, as the result of their own research.
Whenever possible, we will attend a performance that will be the subject of a collective analysis.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
The course will take place on Thursday from 10 to 12:00 (first quadrimester).Local S 50
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus
- MyULiège
Further information:
The iconographical, video, musical and textual documents used during class are made available to students on the ECampus teaching platform.
Any session :
- In-person
written exam
- Remote
oral exam AND written work
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred in-person
Additional information:
Written exam
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Emilie Corswarem (E.Corswarem@ULiege.be)