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Course Description

Summary

This is a practice for participants of any discipline to activate the desired body, in their chosen form or medium. Trusting the intrinsic intelligence of the body, as well as discovering the glitches that contribute to the making process, we will source multiple systems (muscular, skeletal, fluid, organ) and other ways of reading the body (energy, emotion, history, trauma). Attunement at the level of reflex, habit, and fundamental technique let us support, reject, help, and preempt decision-making. Throughout the creative process, we will allow what seems to be an error to become useful material. We investigate escalation and tension using modes that effectively bypass culturally dominant binaries of self and other and offer various approaches to relationships that define and re-define our understanding of power. Ultimately, what lies at the core of our de-centered power play is a non-binary meaning-making. We will derive form and content from places known through direct experience, drawing on sensation, thought, memory, and imagination. Students’ compositional drafts will be regularly created/viewed and discussed, sparking conversations on structure, organization, and disorganization. We will develop the results of this research with a view to presenting and performing in studio showings, produced performances, and/or dance workshops.