Studio Practice sessions will be a divulgence into pleasure practices. Students will engage in improvisation practices rooted in methods of bone deep listening, memory work, call and response, collective dream mapping, and storytelling. Phrasework will be offered as an invitation to engage in polyrhythmic technicality, groove based aesthetics, and playfulness in rigor and risk as a way to push through what we might already assume to know.
Process sessions will engage in the lineage of Glitch Feminist, Afro-Futurist dream practices as a way to siphon through desire as generator for liberation dreaming. We will work through “text” as an ever evolving, multiplicitous concept–text. Text as your favorite music video, poem, prayer, tattoo, secret, etc. A community citation will serve as the groundwork we meet and leap off of. We will come together to create a sharing of worlds as the glitchy, time traveling events we encounter collide and come into relationship with one another.
*BFA students may take the Studio Practice + Process course for CS credit.
Module dates: May 7-May 20
Course days/times:
Monday: 1:40PM-5:20PM
Tuesdays: 2:10PM-4:00PM & 4:10PM-6:00PM
Wednesdays: 7:00PM-8:50PM
Thursdays: 1:40PM-3:30PM
Fridays: 4:10PM-6:00PM
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
TBA (4th module block)
Maximum Enrollment: 18
Course Frequency: Once a year
Categories: 4000 , 4th Module Block , All courses , Dance (BFA) , Fully In-Person , Two Credit
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