Studio Practice + Process: Minor De Luxe: a mass(mess) for body and other rogue im/materials (DAN4804B.03)

Niall Jones

“…as if I’d lost my center of gravity” (Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes)

 

Swerving between forms, against containment, minor de luxe is something like a fall;

a study on turbulence and beauty

 

CLASS remains UNDER CONSTRUCTION

 

“YOU READY?” 

 

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“…ones who are in the mist, who are the midst, who mix disorder. You the mixer, minor mixmaster in mining, digging with love … life demands we bring forth this potential again and again … “ (Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, All Incomplete)

We will be dancing through tangled pedagogies of time, sensuality, dis/placement, dis/order, while practicing how to play between others, between desires, between matters, between dis/appearances, between falling and dancing.  And improvisation is key.

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 3:40PM-5:30PM & M 7:00PM-8:50PM, T 2:10PM-6:00PM, W 10:00AM-11:50AM, Th 3:40PM-5:30PM, F 4:10PM-6:00PM (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
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