Dance as Knowledge

Students will be given theoretical and methodological tools to study and analyse of transmission processes in a chosen dance environment. They will in groups of 2 or 3 visit one such environment each, participate in the dance learning and observe the learning and other processes of transmission. They document some dance material and also transcribe and continue practical learning from film. Applying their tools, they write brief reports supported by audio-visual documentation. They also present their material orally, supplementing it with practical dance demonstrations and will how the processes they studied functioned from pedagogical and safeguarding perspectives. In this way the module will sum up what they learned in earlier modules, add a new dimension and frame it as a combined practical and methodological task.

Students who successfully complete this module will have acquired:
*training in analysing ongoing transmission processes
*reflecting upon how such processes can contribute aims of safeguarding *skills in how to learn dance from different kinds of sources.

Syllabus:

*Theory on learning and transmission
*Tools for the study of transmission processes
*Participatory observation and filming of transmission in dance environment
*Principles in learning and teaching of movement material
*Transcription and learning from filmed material

Lectures, workshops carrying through series of practical tasks in groups under supervision, supervised writing. Minimum required participation/attendance in class for Choreomundus students: At least 70%.