In this course, we will immerse students into dance-theater, dynamic range of physicality, and how we can construct a lens that can witness and defy.
Within Practice: We will challenge dynamic range, wild movement, shifting embodiment, texture, and world-building through contemporary dance forms, improvisation (jazz riffs), theatrical play and humanism, and rhythm. We will discover how narratives, histories, and new futures can unfold through the body, voice and text, imagery, relationship, and experience.
Within Process: Through studies, scores, writing, and creation, we will play with dance + filmmaking, and immersive/site-specific dance-theater. Beginning with studies with camera, character, and initial research. We will develop this into arcs, series, and drop into the unknown to see how it can unfold. What are different ways we can build worlds? How can the archive, memory, inclusivity, and community also be a part of this?
*BFA students may take the Studio Practice + Process course for CS credit.
Module dates: March 17-April 4
Course days/times:
Mondays: 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: 3
TBA (2nd module block)
Maximum Enrollment: 18
Course Frequency: Once a year
Categories: 2nd Module Block , 4000 , All courses , Dance (BFA) , Fully In-Person , Three Credit
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