Morning sessions will begin with guided research practices that examine relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, organizations of effort/force and ideology/aesthetics: practices of critical physicality! Phrase-work will be shared as a portal to play. Choreographed material will act as a set of coordinates that anchor an exploration of exaggeration and sensation. We’ll fall into and out of lush, decadent movement experiences.
Afternoon/evening sessions will be organized as a series of durational practices and collectively designed rituals of exquisite attention; we will focus on creating immediate and urgent opportunities for dancing, drawing and writing. Spectacularly fleeting events, or micro-theaters, will be designed and inhabited each session. We’ll accumulate the artifacts of our research – drawings, notes, animations, scores – ultimately co-conspiring on how we might catalog and/or share the manifestations of our work.
Module dates: October 22 – November 15, 2024
Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
-Foster critical thinking about the dancing body and ways of moving
-Combine and organize a body practice that reflects on and supports the physical demands of the expanding fields of dance research and performance
-Integrate movement through the frames of time, space and poetics
-Demonstrate readiness to assume the working life of a professional dancer, whether in academia, world stages or within one’s community
Delivery Method: Fully in-person
Prerequisites:
Previous dance experience required.
Course Level: 4000-level
Credits: 3
M/Th 10:00AM-11:50AM & 1:40PM-3:30PM, T 10:30AM-12:20PM & 7:00PM-8:50PM, F 10:30AM-12:20PM (3rd module block)
Maximum Enrollment: 20
Course Frequency: One time only
Categories: 3rd Module Block , 4000 , All courses , Dance (BFA) , Fully In-Person , Three Credit
Tags: Open to BA students