Programme

This course provides the students with the study of experiences and skills concerning the basic elements of composition in performing arts: Movement, Space, Expression, Rhythm.
The course will treat some definitions and experiences of the expressive movement, of his formal, dynamic and symbolic values, in practices and reflections on the physical action during the first decades of the twentieth century, searching in a field shared by theatre, dance, gymnastics, visual cultures and anthropology.

Core Documentation

Foreign students can study Eisenstein, Mauss and Warburg's texts in their native language versions or translations

Type of delivery of the course

Frontal lessons

Attendance

Not-frequenting students have to add one more text to the program, according to their curriculum.

Type of evaluation

Oral exam. The subject of the questions are the texts and the videos treated and explained during the frontal lessons.