tackling topics Dance and Other Arts
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Things you can do with the cards:

 

use them as material to show students overlaps and differences between dance and other art forms. You can also use them in designing your choreography.

 

combine them with cards from other focus areas. Take a look through the Choreographer Book in this regard too: for instance, the complex structures of Ludwig van Beethoven’s string quartet “Große Fuge op. 133” inspired Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker to create her choreography “Die große Fuge” (1992).

 

Choreographer Book

 

You can find ideas for developing assignments here.

 

Dance and Other Arts

The focus area “Dance and Other Arts” deals with the overlap between contemporary dance and other forms of artistic expression. It is intended to motivate students to examine the common ground shared by the performing arts and the non-performing arts both mentally and physically, since one of the most significant characteristics of contemporary dance is its interdisciplinary nature.

Impulses from other PERFORMING ARTS, such as SPOKEN THEATRE and MUSIC THEATRE, the VISUAL ARTS, photography, MUSIC and LITERATURE, extend the field of creative possibilities and can provide inspiration for dance. As an example, photographs of bodies in motion can be used as a departure point for developing movement sequences for dance. Or slam poetry can trigger creative ideas: the rhymes and cadence, the sound of the voice or the lyrical content can all serve as inspiration for dance improvisations.

Connecting these various art forms in a dance setting leads to a journey of discovery that can manifest the proper conditions for experiencing, exploring and visualising synergies. Students learn new approaches to creating a work of art and extend their experiences in dance through the body and its movements.

PERFORMING ARTS

Theatre

Spoken Theatre

Musical Theatre

Variety/Cabaret

Puppet Theatre

Media Art

Cinema

Video Art

Sound Art

Digital Art

Conceptual Art

Performance Art

Object Art

VISUAL ARTS

Painting

Impressionism

Expressionism

Pop Art

Action Painting

Sculpting

Sculpture

Plastics

Illustration/Drawing

Print Works

Manga

Graffiti

Photography

Photojournalism

Sports Photography

Fashion Photography

Theatre Photography

Architecture

Constructivism

Deconstructivism

Modernism

Structuralism

MUSIC

Disco

Electronic Music

Hip-Hop

Jazz

Classical Music

Folk Music

Pop

Traditional Music

LITERATURE

Fairy Tales

Fables

Short Stories

Novels

Poems

Rap

Song Lyrics

Poetry Slam (Spoken Word)