AMP41218 Composition 1: Dramaturgy (Autumn 2024)

The course is connected to the following study programs

Mandatory course in Master in Performance (120 ECTS)

Lecture Semester

1st semester (autumn)

The student's learning outcomes after completing the course

The student will:

• gain knowledge of compositional strategies with examples from choreography, music, visual arts, theatre directing, and scenography.

• have general competence in how elements in a production process influence each other, and how they shape rhythms and dramaturgical structures.

• gain knowledge of how to practically work with dramaturgical structures, and how dramaturgy influence modes of perception and what ethical questions arise.

• gain knowledge about theoretical discourses on 'new dramaturgy' and the ways dramaturgy is discussed in the various performative art fields.

Content

From their different artistic fields and practices, students will explore composition and rhythm in confrontation and collaboration with the group, exploring new dramaturgical structures which they develop. The course will contain workshops and collaborative assignments where dramaturgy is studied in both its conventional and experimental forms, across performance fields (music, choreography, visual materials etc.). Explorations of composition with various elements (texts, sounds, light, objects etc.), and physical rhythms through movement /dance and playing/ music, will be exercised collaboratively in various spaces and sites in order to gain knowledge of how composition and dramaturgy influence reception modes and what labor such experimentation requires.

Forms of teaching and learning

The course will be organized in workshops focusing on theories and practices of dramaturgy from various traditions and perspectives, which are mandatory for all students. Further group assignments will be given where students produce short public performances and presentations of practical material within a given time frame.

Workload

Approx. 300 hours

Coursework requirements - conditions for taking the exam

Minimum one group assignment connected to workshops with staff or guest teachers. The assignment will conclude in a public presentation followed by plenum discussion and feedback session.
An attendance of minimum 80 % is required.

Examination

Verbal examination
Duration: 20-30 minutes individual examination plus plenum discussion.

Assessment of student achievement of course's learning outcomes is accomplished by conclusion of the semester by structured discussion between the student, the student's advisor and one employee lecturer, based on the internal group presentations and active participation in workshops.

Uses verbal feedback. Uses the grade pass / fail.

Examiners

Student's supervisor and one lecturer who is a member of staff.

Conditions for resit/rescheduled exams

Failure to pass the exam in one or more courses will only be given one new exam attempt. New examination paper is formulated by programme coordinator in collaboration with the student's supervisor during the course of the semester's 3rd last week.

In continuation assessment, the programme coordinator must in addition to supervisor and staff teacher, who normally assess the student, appoint one additional employee teacher to this sensor array.

The programme coordinator, head of study and student must sign that new exam paper is announced and received.

A new course evaluation (continuation assessment) takes place during the last week of the semester.

Course evaluation

See the programme description

Literature

The reading list is last updated October 23th, 2019.

Recommended literature:

Barthes, R. (1977) The Death of the Author. In: Barthes, R. Image, Music, Text. New York: Hill and Wang

Forsyth, A. & Megson, C. (2011) Get Real, Documentary Theatre Past and Present. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Gorman, S. (2011) The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players. London and New York: Routledge.

Lehmann, H-T. (2006) Postdramatic Theatre. Oxon, New York: Routledge.

Lehmann, H-T. (2013) Tragödie und dramtisches Theater. Berlin: Alexander Verlag.

Martin, C. (ed.) (2010) Dramaturgy of the Real on The World Stage. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Sánchez, J.A. (ed) (2011) Rethinking Dramaturgy, Errancy and transformation. Murcia: CENDEAC.

Turner, C. & Behrndt, S.K. (eds.) (2008) Dramaturgy and Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Goode, C. (2016) The Forest and the Field. London: Oberon Books.

Each workshop teacher will provide a list of required and recommended literature and documentation material for each student to study individually and in self organized study groups.