Module Code - Title:
MU4028
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INTERDISCIPLINARY IMPROVISATION AND COMPOSITION 2
Year Last Offered:
2024/5
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
MU4027
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module is a continuation of INTERDISCIPLINARY IMPROVISATION AND COMPOSITION 1.The students will continue to deepen their exploration of interdisciplinary approaches to improvisation and composition, and to expand the limits of their practice based on such approaches.
This module will have a prerequisite, INTERDISCIPLINARY IMPROVISATION AND COMPOSITION 1, ID 3339.
Syllabus:
Students will attend a weekly workshop with specialist faculty where they will continue to deepen processes involved in interdisciplinary improvisation and composition. Through a mentored collaboration students will develop a work to be performed at the end of the term.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Apply a number of approaches to improvisation and composition to the creation of interdisciplinary works.
Assess the work they produce from a number of aesthetic and methodological standpoints.
Critically engage with principles underpinning discipline-specific improvisational/compositional practices.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Differentiate the principles most relevant to their field of practice.
Synthesise the principles studied in the workshops in order to create new interdisciplinary works.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Skilfully perform the findings of the research.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
The module is taught through a series of workshops and group-based processes. In this module the students will continue to reflect in a creative and knowledgeable manner through doing, thinking, speaking and writing about their experiences of interdisciplinary improvisation and composition. They will use previously acquired knowledge in the field to develop a collaborative work that will be performed at the end of the term. They will also continue to use reflective processes to collaboratively examine, interrogate and articulate various approaches to the interdisciplinary creation of new work. Through the weekly workshops the students will benefit from practice-based research currently undertaken in Ireland and abroad, and will contextualise those findings with relevant literature in the field.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Bohm, D. (2004)
On Creativity
, Psychology Press.
Burrows, J. (2010)
A choreographer's handbook
, Routledge.
Other Relevant Texts:
Spiro, J., Uzzi B. (2005)
Collaboration and Creativity: The Small
World Problem
, American Journal of Sociology v111n2.
Rovan, J.B., Wechlser, R., Weiß, F. (2016)
Seine hohle Form: Artistic Collaboration in an Interactive Dance
and Music Performance Environment
, Crossings: eJournal of
Art and Technology
Soussloff C.M., Franko, M. (2002)
Visual and Performance Studies A New History of Interdisciplinarity
, Social Text, 73 (Volume 20, Number 4), Winter 2002, pp. 29-46 (Article)
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BAPEARUFA - PERFORMING ARTS
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
Oscar.Mascarenas@ul.ie