Lesson plan / HISTORY OF OPERA AND DANCE

Lesson Information

Course Credit 3.0
Course ECTS Credit 5.0
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Programme Elective
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? S
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course Aesthetic, socio-cultural and political analysis of the historical development of opera and dance
Course Content Analysis of the historical development of opera and dance from their beginnnings until Renaissance period.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Meeting with the students and the introduction of the course plan
2Introduction to movement, dance and music
3Court dances, aristocratic entertainment contexts / professionalisation in academies
4Ballet d'action
5Opera and ballet in Romantic period
6New developments in opera and ballet: avant-gardism in early 20th century
7Modern dance's first generations
8Preparation for the mid-term
9Mid-term
10Austruckstanz and dance theater
11Contemporary dance in Europe
12Western dances and opera in Turkey-I
13Western dances and opera in Turkey-II
14Overview

Resources

1- Alexandra Carter (ed.) Dans Tarihini Yeniden Düşünmek (çeviri kitap) bgst Yayınları, Dans/Kuram, 2010.
2- André Lepecki, Dansı Tüketmek: Performans ve Hareketin Siyaseti, Gurur Ertem (ed.), Bimeras Yayınları, 2010.
3- Susan Au, Bale ve Modern Dans (kitap özeti), http://dansyazilari.blogspot.com/2010/04/bale-ve-modern-dans-1.html
4- Arzu Öztürkmen, “Türk Usulü Modern Dans, Cumhuriyetin İlk Yıllarında Osmanlı Dansının Dönüşümü”(Yirminci Yüzyılda Dans Sanatı: Kuram ve Pratik, yay. haz. Şebnem Selışık Aksan, Gurur Ertem, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi, 2007): 286-303.
5- Arzu Öztürkmen, “Selma Selim Sırrı ve Bedii Rakslar: Modern Bir Dans Türünün Anlamı Üzerine Düşünceler” (Toplumsal Tarih, s. 39, 1997): 23-26.