Ballet Anarchy
DAN4181.01) (cancelled 7/11/2023
Course Description
Summary
This course is designed for students who have some ballet experience and are familiar withballet terms and movement vocabulary. While following basic structure and vocabularies that are being used in a traditional ballet class, this course, accompanied by non-traditional music scores such as pop music, offers an opportunity to recalibrate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand, develop or break existing relationships with and approaches to ballet practice. To relax and liberate our minds and bodies from the mentality often attached to perfecting a form and following a certain manner, some improvisational and experimental exercise and contemporary dance phrases will interrupt and redirect the traditional flow.Prerequisites
Previous ballet training (over 5 yrs) is required in order to register for the class. For inquiry and permission, please contact the instructor Kota Yamazaki (kyamazaki@bennington.edu) with description about your prior ballet and dance training and experience.
Please contact the faculty member : mnishimura@bennington.edu
Corequisites
Dance or Drama lab assignment if students sign up for 4 or more credits in designated dance courses.