Movement and dance (PES/E-MOVE)

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  • 7 credits
  • Lecturer: Mgr. Bc. Hana Kubíčková, Ph.D.
  • Lessons (Lectures + Exercises + Seminars): 0 + 1 + 0 [hours/week]
  • Teaching language: English
  • Method of completion: Credit
  • Semester: Summer
  • Level of Qualification: Bc., Mgr.

Synopsis / description / annotation:

The courses include dance and movement into a whole-person approach to mental and body health. During the lessons will by used dance and movement therapy techniques, which will develop students' personal, cognitive, emotional and movement resources and lead to the overall integration of the individual. The teaching will also use the dance style of street dance (hip hop, house dance, dancehall) as a specific way of self-expression and working with the body.

Requirements on student:

90% attendance, active participation in excercises, preparation of own technique of body work and application in a group.

Content:

  1. Reflection of own resources in the field of cognitive, emotional and movement
  2. Support and use of resources for own development
  3. Techniques and methods of dance movement therapy
  4. Healing trough movement
  5. Street dance as a unique method of self-expression
    • hip hop
    • dancehall
    • house dance

Literature:

  • Berrol, C. F. (2006). Neuroscience meets dance/movement therapy: mirror neurons, the therapeutic process and empathy. Arts Psychother. 33, 302–315. doi: 10.1016/j.aip.2006.04.001
  • Bläsing, B. (2017). “Dance in the body, the mind and the brain: neurocognitive research inspired by dancers and their audience,” in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing, eds V. Karkou, S. Oliver, and S. Lycouris (New York, NY: Oxford University Press), 41–56.
  • Chodorow, J. (2013). Dance Therapy and Depth Psychology: The Moving Imagination. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Koch, S., Lykou, S., and Cruz, R. (2014). Effects of dance movement therapy and dance on health-related psychological outcomes: a meta-analysis. Arts Psychother. 41, 46–64. doi: 10.1016/j.aip.2013.10.004

Teaching methods

  • Individual work
  • Group work
  • Presentation
  • Reflection tasks
  • Discussion
  • Skill- practical methods

Evaluation methods

  • Continuous analysis of student performance
  • Verbal evaluation
  • Systematic and long-term student evaluation
  • Credit

Language requirements

  • English at level A2, B1

Skilled requirements

  • Knowledge of principles and techniques of dance and movement therapy
  • Ability to understand own resources
  • Ability of self-reflection
  • Ability to present the prepared activity

Updated: 03. 10. 2022