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Course Description

Summary

This course is for students who have a serious interest in dance or desire to explore embodied practice and cognition, whether or not you have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, embodiment, and performance. We will work towards constantly evolving ways to be one’s own teacher—recognizing patterns, heightening awareness of observation, and selecting easier, more efficient, and effective movement options. Improvisational structures will test and inform our making and moving via screening/reading/composing. We will look at the tools needed for developing and performing our own work and feeling more comfortable in our bodies. Students’ experiments will be regularly drafted, viewed, discussed and edited, opening up conversations about technique, structure, organization, and disorganization (to understand a range of perspectives). In order to expand the process, we will develop some complementary practices of creating through writing, drawing, and storytelling. Collaborative and solo projects will be developed throughout the term and will include a showing in Dance Workshop or in the end-of-term Studio Concert.