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Ballroom dance as a leisure activity
Ježková, Martina ; Dvořáčková, Hana (advisor) ; Leontovyčová, Jana (referee)
Annotation: This thesis aims to reveal to the general public, what dance is in the eyes of professional dancers, and to recommend ballroom dancing as one of the very good ways to meaningfully use their free time. The aim is to find out how pupils and students under 20 years of age spend their free time and how they perceive dance as a leisure activity. This work is divided into theoretical and empirical part. In the theoretical part, I explain the concept of free time and the importance of meaningful use of it. Further, I detail the history of dance, which shows why people started to dance and what it yields to them. The theoretical part also includes information about the dance sport, institutions providing dance training, sports nutrition, and also the fact that dance can help and heal. The empirical part is devoted to questionnaires measuring how much of their free time children spend on dance activities, and guided interviews with professional dancers who let us peek into their dance world. These dancers will answer the questions: why dancing became their way of life, what positives and negatives it brings, what is so beautiful and liberating about the dance, and also why a place called Blackpool is often mentioned in the dance environment.
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Dance and fashion
Orszulik, Eduard Adam ; TÄUBELOVÁ, Kristýna (advisor) ; ELIÁŠOVÁ, Bohumíra (referee)
In my bachelor’s thesis I deal with the evolution of dance from the period of ballets de cours during the reign of Louis XIV and of fashion from the birth of fashion industry until today. I searched for a connection between dance and fashion so that it was apparent how these two different fields influence each other. The main sources for this thesis were professional literature, fashion media, but also interviews I did with leading dance creators. During my research I came to a conclusion that even though these two fields are completely independent on each other, there is a connection between them which is responsible for their specific evolutions.
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Dance, movement, photography
Peguero, Benjamin ; ŠIMŮNEK, Michal (advisor) ; JANOŠČÍK, Václav (referee)
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to introduce contemporary dance photography and Czech street dance culture. As a dancer and photographer, I have been interested in the ability of photography to reproduce dance as an artistic expression and, as a physical, emotional and in a given context, a deeply anchored experience. The work will be based on Benjamin's concept of aurativeness, through which I will consider the ability of photography to reproduce the dance, from the point of view of three direct participants in the dance event: the spectator watching the dance; the photographer who shoots the dance scene; and the dancer himself, who dances and moves most intensely. The work will be based on the observation of the Czech street dance scene and, in addition to the above, will give an overview of Czech and world dance photography with emphasis on street dance.
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The Dance of the Renaissance Era: The Mirror of Early Modern Society
Klementová, Kateřina ; Kröschlová, Eva (advisor) ; Gremlicová, Dorota (referee) ; Steckerová, Andrea (referee)
The main focus of the dissertation is 15th century Italian court dance, which was one of the prime manifestations of the emerging aristocratic society all across renaissance Europe. The dissertation draws on a detailed research into original dance notations and works on dance theory of dance masters Domenico da Piacenza, Antonio Cornazana and Guglielmo Ebreo/Giovanni Ambrosio and contains first-time Czech translations of important parts of these works. The text first addresses general issues (occasions and locations for dancing, dance education and the role of the dance master, functions of dance in a given historical period, intellectual and philosophical framework of early dance treatises) and moves on to analyse specific features of period dance theory and provides a description of ractical aspects of the realization of dance choreography (basic steps and movements, figures, spatial dance forms etc.). The dissertation contains a reconstruction of one such dance choreography. A certain journey into related fields and later historical periods are chapters on the aesthetic of movement (required posture, position of the head, facial expression, hand gestures etc.) and period etiquette (acceptance of social hierarchy in dance and beyond, ways of showing respect and greetings, asking to dance and...
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Ballroom dance as a leisure activity
Ježková, Martina ; Dvořáčková, Hana (advisor) ; Leontovyčová, Jana (referee)
Annotation: This thesis aims to reveal to the general public, what dance is in the eyes of professional dancers, and to recommend ballroom dancing as one of the very good ways to meaningfully use their free time. The aim is to find out how pupils and students under 20 years of age spend their free time and how they perceive dance as a leisure activity. This work is divided into theoretical and empirical part. In the theoretical part, I explain the concept of free time and the importance of meaningful use of it. Further, I detail the history of dance, which shows why people started to dance and what it yields to them. The theoretical part also includes information about the dance sport, institutions providing dance training, sports nutrition, and also the fact that dance can help and heal. The empirical part is devoted to questionnaires measuring how much of their free time children spend on dance activities, and guided interviews with professional dancers who let us peek into their dance world. These dancers will answer the questions: why dancing became their way of life, what positives and negatives it brings, what is so beautiful and liberating about the dance, and also why a place called Blackpool is often mentioned in the dance environment.
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Pantomime and dance in the interwar period
Šírková, Kateřina ; SOPROVÁ, Jana (advisor) ; HYVNAR, Jan (referee)
This thesis deals with the status of pantomime and dance in the period
between the wars. It examines the connection between the two genres.
First it explains the basic concepts such as: pantomime, expressive dance
and the interwar period. After that it is exploring the status of these art
genres in Czechoslovakia. Furthermore it outlines several important
personalities of the dance art which influenced the pantomime and the
mimic theater with their actions.
At the end, the work focuses on the importance of the dance for the mimic
theater artists and it also examines the impact of an avant-garde art on the
contemporary artistic creation.
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Dance in the Contemporary Israeli Society
Indráková, Tereza ; STAVĚLOVÁ, Daniela (advisor) ; PETIŠKOVÁ, Ladislava (referee)
In my dissertation Dance in Israeli Society I have tried to describe the position and perception of dance in contemporary Israeli society from the perspective of modern methods of anthropological research. I have used the methods of the work in the field - authentic interviews with Israeli dancers and Israeli choreographers, with the use of publications in English and Hebrew. My observation were focused on modern Israeli society but with understanding the context of the Jewish history and the transformation of the status of dance in Jewish society from the Biblical times, through the period of diaspora until the Zionist ideas that led to the creation of modern State Israel. Context is completed with a reflection on the current problems of Israeli society and a positive role of dance as a the medium in mutual understanding of different social groups in the contemporary society,. I accent the rolraelská kultura, židovské náboženství, izraelská společnost, národní identita, antropologie tance, tělesná kultura, pohybový jazyk, současný tanec, lidový tanec, etnický tanec, tanec v náboženství, Gaga, Feldenkrais, metoda Ilan Lev, Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation e of dance in building of new modern State Israel and its culture in helping creating new Israeli culture and searching for the Israeli national identity. It also includes an insight into the methods and tools developed in Israel that are unique for the contemporary dance world in Israel,
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The czech contemporary dance in the nineteen nineties
Opavská, Andrea ; GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota (advisor) ; STAVĚLOVÁ, Daniela (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to clarify the situation of the Czech contemporary dance platform in the nineteen-nineties and its transformation, on the basis of four case studies of concrete personalities and their dance works: Eva Černá a Karel Vaněk (Little blue nothing), Lenka Flory (..and where is Mary?), Jan Kodet (Jade) and Petr Tyc (The Fall of The House of Usher). The emphasis is put on catching the different qualities of movement, searching for the origins of their source of inspiration.
In order to understand the deeper context of this period it was necessary to briefly describe the development of "scénický" ("scenic") dance before 1989. This matter is put into the larger context of the change in aesthetics of the corporeality since the nineteen-sixties and the formation of the concept of contemporary dance with delimitation of its content.
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Capoeira
Slezáková, Kristýna ; STAVĚLOVÁ, Daniela (advisor) ; GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota (referee)
Dissertation discusses the cultural phenomenon of Brazilian capoeira and its Czech and European form. The whole text is divided into two parts, historical and anthropological. After an introduction describing the primarily motivation to study Capoeira we find a treatise on the methods of research and its process, which is related to the linguistic definition of the use of Portuguese terms. The first part of the anthropological section gives the reader an image of historical context of the development of capoeira in Brazil, and subsequently in Europe. Informations in this section are primarily taken from written sources, ie are driven from already explored areas of the theory of capoeira. The description of the European context is followed by a part where the entrance of capoeira into the Czech Republic is described and where the findings from my own research begin to be processed. Text flows into the anthropological treatise on the processes accompanying implantation of the exotic phenomenon in European countries and the reasons that led to it. The last part of the thesis deals with the effects of globalization of capoeira and various influences that changed or evolved the art in the new environment. The work presents the latest findings from the history and present of capoeira in its native Brazil as well as in Europe and is also the first work on the subject in the country.
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