This beginning-intermediate level course is designed and recommended for students who have some dance experience or equivalent physical training in any movement forms. Anyone who would like to recultivate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand, develop or break the relationship to their own body and commit to consistent physical learning, are welcomed.
In order to have our minds and bodies relaxed as a default modality, the class offers somatic practice and warm-ups drawn from Water Body Movement (or Noguchi-taiso) and release techniques. Students are also introduced to various movement forms, practice and sequences fluidly one to another not necessarily with categorization and distinction, on the premises that a body is like a black hole, which absorbs and internalizes everything while constantly forming and renewing its own logic.
By exposing a body to various movement languages, rhythms and flows, we will cultivate motor skills, coordination, spatial recognition, phrase learning ability and physical logic making while diving deeply into the process of embodied learning.
Learning Outcomes:
-Expand a range of physical language
-Expand perspectives on dance
-Improve motor skills and establish active and healthy relationship to own body
-Learn movement phrases of different styles
-Be able to cultivate and move upon a sense of freedom and uniqueness while engaging in the technical aspect of movement practice
-Find own physical coordination and phrasing manner
Delivery Method: Fully in-person
Corequisites: Dance or Drama lab assignment if students sign up for 4 or more credits in designated dance courses.
Course Level: 2000-level
Credits: 2
Tu/F 10:30AM - 12:20PM (Full-term)
Maximum Enrollment: 20
Course Frequency: Once a year
Categories: 2000 , All courses , Dance , Fully In-Person , Two Credit
Tags: Ballet , contemporary dance , dance improvisation , dance technique , movement practice