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BA Theatre, Film and Television studies
Theatre Studies offers a variety of courses on theatre and dance in the BA program Theatre, Film and Television Studies. Except for two modules, these are Dutch-language courses.
We continue to explore the possibility for international BA Students to enroll in some of the Dutch-language courses. Continue to visit this site to know more about future developments.
Course descriptions of English-taught courses on theatre and dance, in 2009-2010. Both courses are scheduled for the 2nd semester, blok 3 (February 8 till April 16)
Community Art
Lecturers: Eugene van Erven, Wil Hildebrand
Community Art could be loosely defined as a way of creating art in which professional artists collaborate more or less intensively with people who do not normally actively engage in the arts. Community Art involves all art disciplines and can be found all over the world: in immigrant working-class areas, in prisons, in rural communities, in war zones, etc. Also in the Netherlands it is a rapidly expanding field that operates emphatically outside the mainstream or avant-garde. Because it challenges traditional notions of (autonomous) art making, community art reconfigures existing art theory and criticism in an attempt to validate it both in cultural and in social terms. Students in this course will become part of a research team that will conduct field work in ongoing community art projects, they will study the most recent scholarly insights, and they will learn to write about community art under supervision of experienced journalistic art critics. The fruits of students' labour will be published in the database, the community-arts.nl website and other publications. Students will be actively involved in the field, such as in mini-symposia around the visit of scholar-choreographer Petra Kuppers in April 2009, or in the next International Community Art Festival in Rotterdam 2011.
Research Theater & Dance: Dance
The topic of the course changes each year. In 2009/2010 the focus is on the legacy of Judson Dance Theater (1960-1973) in European dance since 1990.
Lecturer: Bojana Cvejic
The history of dance, like many other primarily oral traditions, is marked with sharp cuts, discontinuities as well as with resurgent influences. One such period that stands between modernism, the postmodern condition and contemporary dance – between the vivid art scene of New York in the 1960s and the new impulse for reconceptualizing dance in Europe in the 1990s – is Judson Dance Theater, mainly represented in the work of Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton and Trisha Brown, and the Grand Union collective. We will be looking into various kinds of historical documents – essayistic writings of these choreographers, manifestos, scores, reviews, as well as some few recordings of performances from the period – to draw questions, concepts, events, and innovations which have been revisited and reconsidered in European dance since 1990. Some of the subtopics of this research will include everyday movement, conceptualizing dance, ‘communal’ body, the technology of scores etc. approached in comparative perspective through the writings and works of Rainer, Paxton, Brown, but also Xavier Le Roy, Quatuor Albrecht Knust, Boris Charmatz etc. |
Links
The course Community Art is closely connected to a website and database:
• www.community-art.nl
• www.communityartdatabase.nl
If you are interested in enrolling in these courses, please visit the website of the International Office, for information for exchange students:
• UU's International Office
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The pictures on this page are made by Mark Weemen, based on the performance Über by Sanne van Rijn / NTGent. For this performance, she recycled a design by theatre designer Anna Viebrock. |
