University of the Philippines
Course Description: An approach to understanding dance as art and as cultural phenomenon.
Prerequisite: None
Course Credits: 3 Units
Domain: Arts and Humanities
INTRODUCTION (2 weeks)
A. 1 Dance perceived as a personal expression in themes, time, space and dynamics.
A. 2 The medium of dance and its allied media for composition and expression.
A. 3 Dance tradition in society through a) Philippine and global examples, b) individual and communal manifestations and interfaces, c) relation of production and reception.
UNDERSTANDING THE CREATION OF DANCE (6 WEEKS)
B. 1 Creating and presenting dance with readings, viewings and basic compositional exercises.
B. 2 Dance as folk expression in rites, social functions and other forms of celebrations.
B. 3 Theatrical constructs of dance: aesthetic traditions, psychological and social factors, modes of collaboration.
B. 4 Educational and therapeutic functions of dance.
B.5 Examination
RECEIVING AND READING DANCE (6 WEEKS)
C. 1 Modes of representation as experienced by the audience.
C. 2 Social and cultural dimensions and dynamics of dance.
C. 3 Philippine dance in national and global contexts.
C. 4 Problems in reading dance: on the critical and historical writings on Philippine dance today
CONSOLIDATION AND EXAMINATIONS (2 WEEKS)
Total No. of weeks: 16 weeks
Papers, examinations, basic compositional exercises.
Readings, viewings (TV, videofilms, performances: rituals, theatrical, social functions—whenever available), writing reactions.
Alejandro, Reyaldo. 1978. Philippine Dance. Quezon City: Vera Reyes
Carter, Alexandra. 1998 The Routledge Dance Studies Reader: London: Routledge
Cohen, Selma Jean (ed.). The International Dance Encyclopedia. 6 vols. London: Oxford University Press
1998 Contemporary Philippine Culture. Manila: Japan Foundation
Dempster, Jane, ed. 1997 Motion and Emotion. Durham: Duke University Press
Dils and Albright. Moving History, Dancing Culture. Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press
Goquingco, Leonor Orosa. 1980. Dances of the Emerald Isles. Quezon City: Benlor Publishers
Jonas, Gerald. 1992. Dancing. New York: Harry Abrams
Miettinen, Jukka. 1992. Classical Dance and Theatre in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Oxford University Press.
Ness, Sally Ann. 1992. Body, Movement and Culture: A Kinesthetic and Visual Symbolism in a Philippine Community. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Tinggal, Zanal Abiddin. 1998 Dances of the ASEAN: Brunei Darussalam: ASEAN Committee on Communication and Information.
Tiongson, Nicanor, ed. 1994. CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art. 10 vols.
Vol V: Dance. Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Kwadro: Goquingco—CD-Rom
Dancing—8 VHS films, arranged thematically
Sayaw—4 VHS films, arranged periodically:General, Ethnic, Spanish, American-Contemporary Traditions
ASEAN Dances—6 VHS films: Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore
Social Dancing—2 VHS films on Western social dances
Repertoire films of UP Dance Company, UP Filipiniana Dance Group, Dance Theatre Philippines, and other groups
Dance Magazine Land Balletanz (Villaruz collection in College of Music Library)
Dance Perspectives (rare collection in College of Human Kinetics)
Banes, Sally. 1994. Writing Dancing in the Age of Post Modernism. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press.
Foster, Susan, ed. 1995. Choreographing History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Gainor, Ellen, ed. 1995. Imperialism and Theatre London: Routledge
Gere, David, ed. 1995. Perspectives in Dance and Criticism in a Multicultural World. New York, New Delhi, et al.: Schirmer Books-Prentice Hall
Goellner, Ellen and Jacqueline Shea Murphy, eds. 1995. Bodies of the Text. New Brunswick: Pritzers University Press.
Hanna, Judith Lynn. 1979. To Dance is Human. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Humphrey, Doris. 1959. The Art of Making Dances. New York: Grove Press.
Nor, Mohd Anis Md. ed. 2000. Asian Dance: Voice of the Millennium. Kuala Lumpur: Asia Pacific Dance Research Society
Mirano, Elena Rivera, et al. 1989. Subli. Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines
Turner, Victor. 1969. The Ritual Process. London: Routledge
Villaruz, Basilio Esteban, ed. 1999. Dance in Revolution, Revolution in Dance. Manila: World Dance Alliance-Philippines