This course brings together intermediate and advanced choreographer-dancers with student composer counterparts, for a group of assigned collaborative projects. After some preliminary exercises and discussions, choreographers and composers will be paired off for three two-week projects that deliberately explore different ways of working. They will make a piece in which the dance is created first; another in which the music is created first; and a third in which they work entirely independently and only agree on the duration of their work. In the second half of the term composers and choreographers will work on a longer piece as a team, planning and creating the piece together from scratch. The course will include discussions and lectures on historical models for these approaches, and one paper. Music compositions will emphasize notation.
Music and Dance Collaboration (DAN4132.01)
Susan Sgorbati; Allen Shawn
Prerequisites: For composers: a previous composition and theory course, and permission of the instructor. For dancers: First Year Dance Intensive and permission of the instructor
Credits: 4
M 2:10pm - 4:00pm; Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Maximum Enrollment: 20
Course Frequency:
This course is categorized as Susan Sgorbati, All courses, Allen Shawn, Dance, Four Credit, Music, 4000, and tagged performance, dance, composition, collaboration, music.
Credits: 4
M 2:10pm - 4:00pm; Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Maximum Enrollment: 20
Course Frequency:
This course is categorized as Susan Sgorbati, All courses, Allen Shawn, Dance, Four Credit, Music, 4000, and tagged performance, dance, composition, collaboration, music.