Studio Practice: Contemporary Forms/Expansion and Continuity (DAN4824B.02, section 2)

Katie Swords Thurman

The class integrates a technical movement base with short phrases of full, supple, expansive movements that prepare students to tackle complex phrases at the end of each class. The work in class is designed to enable the student to manipulate his or her energy and strength in ways that are sharp, clear, specific, and contained in one instance and wild, abandoned, expansive and spatially hungry in another. The student is encouraged to think about the energy that moves within and throughout the body—How can this energy continue and extend outside of the body to possibly come back into the body again? How does this energy (re)circle? Is it continuous or can it stop? The student is encouraged to test his or her abilities to the fullest and not be afraid to “mess up” or “fail.” Learning from these “failures” may uncover new insights into the student’s abilities as an artist.


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: 2
M/Th 10:00AM - 11:50AM (1st seven weeks)
Maximum Enrollment: 20
Course Frequency: Once a year

Categories: 4000 , All courses , Dance (BFA) , First Seven Week , Fully In-Person , Two Credit
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