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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. In 2011/2012 4 of them are English-taught modules.
FIRST SEMESTER (September-January)
Theory and Analysis Theatre and Dance II (block 1, level 2)
Lectures: Maaike Bleeker, Bojana Cvejic
This module introduces a range of theories and theoretical approaches that have been or are still relevant for the analysis of theatre and dance. These theories will on the one hand be situated in the particular historical contexts in which they originated and on the other hand they are subject to a critical exploration with regard to their use and functionality in connection to the analysis and interpretation of contemporary theatre and dance.
This is a secondary, or advanced level module. Participating students are expected to have acquired basic knowledge of the history of 20th century theatre and dance, as well as of basic principles of the theory and analysis of theatre and dance, and to have some practical experience with analysing performances.
Research Theater & Dance: Dance (block 2, level 3)
The topic of the course changes each year.
Lecturer: Liesbeth Wildschut.
Topic: Kinesthetic empathy
Spectators of dance experience kinesthetic empathy when, even while sitting still, they feel they are participating in the movements they observe, and experience related feelings and ideas. As a way of introduction to the field we explore ongoing research in the domains of neuroscience, dance, film, music and contemporary embodied practices, to explore the nature and role of kinesthetic empathy. Following the curiosity of each student, we will set up several research groups. Each research group will explore an aspect of kinesthetic empathy. This research can be theoretical as well as empirical (interviews, questionnaires, etc.) and will be presented at the end of the course.
SECOND SEMESTER (February-June)
Community Art (block 3, level 3)
Lecturer: Eugene van Erven
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.
Music Theater (block 4, level 2)
Lecturer: Bojana Cvejic
When considered in its contemporary forms beyond the divide between high art and popular entertainment, opera and musical or pop, music theater is more than a genre; it rather opens a cross-disciplinary field of subjects or topics, parallel histories, wild narratives, or strong ideologies, constantly reinvesting new relations between media, as well as forms, and aesthetic attitudes. The departure for this course are 8 themes from intersecting scholarly methods in musicology, cultural studies, performance theory, philosophy, theoretical psychoanalysis and poststructuralism: 1. "opera in history", 2. Gesamtkunstwerk, 3."death of opera" (beginning of Musiktheater), 4. voice, body and machine, 5. dramaturgy, directing and staging through other eyes (intermedia), 6. the theory of spectacle, 7. "performing stardom",
8. repartitioning the sensible (emerging forms of Music+Theater). The course will map these themes as problem-knots in a selection of seminal works of opera, Music Theater, cinema, pop concert and video clip, stagings based in choreography, visual art or architecture. The most recent cross-disciplinary theoretical approaches will be studied in texts, and situated in the very reflection of the performance practices.
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Links
Related to Community Art:
www.community-art.nl
www.communityartdatabase.nl
Exchange students interested in enrolling in these courses, please visit the International Office website:
UU's International Office
Why Theatre?
You may also be interested in our extracurricular Thursday afternoon program Why Theatre?
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The pictures on this page are made by Mark Weemen, based on the performance άber by Sanne van Rijn / NTGent. For this performance, she recycled a design by theatre designer Anna Viebrock. |
