Module Code - Title:

MD4108 - CHOREOGRAPHIC SKILLS 1

Year Last Offered:

2025/6

Hours Per Week:

Lecture

1

Lab

2

Tutorial

0

Other

3

Private

4

Credits

6

Grading Type:

Prerequisite Modules:

Rationale and Purpose of the Module:

This is an elective module intended for undergraduate students with dance as a first area who wish to further develop and deepen their choreography and notation skills.

Syllabus:

This module has two elements creating and documenting solo and /or duet dance works. Students in this module will concentrate on further developing their choreographic abilities drawing on choreographic tools and techniques from a multitude of dance genres and contexts. The students will create and perform new solo and/or duet works. They will also be taught a variety of skills to assist with the development of strategies to record and document their creative processes. A number of notation systems including Labanotation, Newcastle notation, a variety of journal reflections as well as video and audio recordings will all inform the choreographic practice.

Learning Outcomes:

Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)

Students will increase their knowledge of movement systems and their ability to create work within a variety of idioms.

Affective (Attitudes and Values)

Students will deepen their understanding of their own creative process and that of others by reflecting on and representing work in a variety of contexts.

Psychomotor (Physical Skills)

Students will build and develop their movement repertoire. Students will hone visual ability through developing notation skills.

How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:

Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):

Prime Texts:

Adshead, J., V. A. Briginshaw, et al. (1982) A Chart of Skills and Concepts for Dance , Journal of Aesthetic Education 16(3): 49-61

Feintuch, B. (Ed.) (2003) Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture. , Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press

Foley, C. (2007) The creative process within Irish traditional step dance. Dance Structures. Perspectives on the Anlysis of Human Movement , A. L. Kaeppler and E. I. Dunin. Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó.

Guest, A. H. (2005) Labanotation. The System of Analyzing and Recording Movement. , London, Routledge

Hall, F. A. (2007) Improvisation and fixed composition in clogging. Dance Structures. Perspectives on the Anlysis of Human Movement. , A. L. Kaeppler and E. I. Dunin. Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó.

Instep Research Team, C. Hays, et al. (2011) Newcastle Notation: A rational system for the notation of clog and step dances. , Newcastle, Instep Research Team.

Ní Bhriain, O. (2010) An Examination of the Creative Processes in Competitive Irish Step Dance , PhD, University of Limerick.

Ni Bhriain, O. (2008) The Terminology of Irish Dance , Madison, Macater Press.

Other Relevant Texts:

Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:

Semester(s) Module is Offered:

Autumn
Spring
Summer

Module Leader:

Breandan.deGallai@ul.ie