Movement Practice: Let’s get Physical! (DAN2013.01)

luciana achugar, MFA Teaching Fellow

This movement practice course is open to all levels of experience and even no  experience at all with body conditioning or dance. The course is approached as a form of exercise as well as a way to recover from injuries, misuse, excess or lack of physical activity. We will learn how to take care of one’s body regularly and how to stay strong and able to move for life, as well as ways to avoid injury for those that are dancing regularly or are involved in other physically rigorous practices. The course will include a blend of strengthening, stretching, body use and dance techniques employed by achugar in her own practice as a movement teacher, such as Pilates, Yoga, Klein TechniqueTM, Alexander Technique, functional anatomy, strengthening and mobility training. 

This course will be taught in-person one week and remote the next.


Learning Outcomes:
Students will:
* Gain an overall greater sense of well-being in their bodies.

* Gain functional and core strength.

* Learn how to stretch to affect change in their bodies and avoid injury.

* Learn how to discern between “good” and “bad” pain and how to make
decisions accordingly.

* Feel more empowered as they get stronger and more able to move in different
ways with increased awareness and understanding of themselves and their
bodies in movement.



Delivery Method: Hybrid
Corequisites: Dance or Drama Lab Assignment if students are registered for 4 or more credits in Dance.
Course Level: 2000-level
Credits: 2
W 10:00AM-11:50AM & F 8:30AM-10:20AM (Full-term)
Maximum Enrollment: 20
Course Frequency: One time only

Categories: 2000 , All courses , Dance , Hybrid , Two Credit
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