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Course Description

Summary

In this creative process lab, we will be developing dance and site responsive movement scores to be performed live and in relation to video. During the first seven weeks, we will be cultivating/creating these scores based on rigorous somatic investigation and dance practice, both within the studio and within specific predetermined locations. Throughout this process, students will be expected to engage in deep listening, attend to nuance and subtlety, and dive into physical intensity. With image based improvisations, task based sequences and repetition, we will work toward touching upon transformative states of being while dancing. During the second seven weeks, we will be working directly with the class members of “Co/Lab: Mediating Performance,” to produce works with/for video. We will work conceptually and collaboratively to apply what has been culled in the first seven weeks. Possible avenues of exploration include: strategies for making site-specific performance designed for video; conceptualizing performance for immersive environments; constructing scores around responsive/interactive structures and objects.