Hyper Body! - Anarchic Ballet to Water Movement to African Dance to Floor Ninja to Body Architecture to Shining Zombie to Unknown Transformation…..

DAN4423.01) (cancelled 8/2/2023
Course System Home Terms Fall 2023 Hyper Body! - Anarchic Ballet to Water Movement to African Dance to Floor Ninja to Body Architecture to Shining Zombie to Unknown Transformation…..

Course Description

Summary

This course is designed for students who have dance experience or equivalent physical training in any movement form. We welcome anyone who would like to recultivate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand, develop or disrupt their relationship to their own knowledge and experience of physical movements and commit to consistent physical learning. In order to have our minds and bodies relaxed as a default modality, the class offers somatic practice and warm-ups drawn from Water Body Movement (or Noguchi-taiso) and release techniques. Students are also introduced to various movement forms, practices and sequences fluidly, by moving from one to another without categorization and distinction, on the premise that a body is an ever-evolving organism, absorbing and internalizing everything while constantly forming and renewing its own logic. By exposing students to various movement languages, rhythms and flows, we will cultivate motor skills, coordination, spatial recognition, phrase learning ability and physical logic-making while diving deeply into the process of embodied learning.

Prerequisites

Previous ballet, modern dance or equivalent physical training is required in order to register for the class. For inquiry and permission, please contact the instructor Kota Yamazaki (kyamazaki@bennington.edu) and TA Mina Nishimura (mnishimura@bennington.edu) with a description about your prior physical training and experience.

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Corequisites

Dance or Drama lab assignment if students sign up for 4 or more credits in designated dance courses.

Instructor

Day and Time

Academic Term

Fall 2023

Area of Study

Credits

2

Course Level

4000

Maximum Enrollment

20