This beginning-level dance course requires no previous dance training and welcomes absolute beginners who would like to start a day with physical practice and body attunement. Students are introduced to some basic principles of dancing by learning various movement patterns, choreographed sequences and by engaging in improvisational and compositional movement practice. As early-morning is the most important and critical time of a day that helps determine how to spend and live that day, this course also offers a mindful yet vivid transition from a state of yin (asleep) to yan (awake).
Learning Outcomes:
-Improve a sense of body attunement
-Cultivate spatial awareness
-Establish a healthy, active and body-centered morning practice
-Learn and perform simple movement sequence
-Move your body without excessive tension
-Find and cultivate your own physical coordination and rhythm
-Deepen a relationship to your body while listening to other bodies
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
M/Th 8:00AM-9:50AM (Full-term)
Maximum Enrollment: 20
Course Frequency: One time only
Categories: 2000 , All courses , Dance , Faculty Update , Fully In-Person , Two Credit , Updates
Tags: dance , dance technique , early morning , mind -body conditioning , morning practice , movement practice