Course content

Students will be given theoretical and methodological tools to study and analyse transmission processes in dance and historic traces of dance. They select some dance material, transcribe it and continue to learn it practically 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 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. They will also receive an introduction to historiography with material from the Dance history of Europe and particularly the Nordic countries.

Syllabus
*Theory on learning and transmission
*Tools for the study of transmission processes
*Principles in learning and teaching of movement material
*Transcription and learning from filmed material
*Application of historiographic methods

Learning outcome

Knowledge:
An examinee with a completed qualification in DANS3015
-Has knowledge about methods of historiography and their applications to concrete historical source material
-Knows how to analyse ongoing transmission processes

Skills:
An examinee with a completed qualification in DANS3015
-Can reflect upon how and to which degree transmission processes can contribute to aims of safeguarding from a pedagogical as well as an artistic perspective
-Has acquired skills in how to learn dance from different kinds of sources

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, workshops carrying through series of practical tasks in groups under supervision, supervised writing.

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

Requires admission to Nordic Master in Dance Studies (NO-MA-DS) or Erasmus Mundus Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage (Choreomundus).