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Course Description

Summary

This course invites students to create duets using a number of compositional tools and improvisational and performance strategies. Dancers working together will inspire each other based on their relationship. As material reveals itself, moment to moment, consider that the dancers will be “teaching” each other as they work. This premise will allow us to learn from one another. We will also learn how to recognize and detach from what we already know in order to make room for what we don’t know. Learning how to compose while moving is key, making space for each dancer to trust the duet. They must accept what they do not know, in order to wake up to what is there in any given moment. Inhabiting the space we are dancing in, being in relationship to one another, and seeing all there is around us expands our experience. Feedback will be part of our work. How we see and how we can include our audience as part of our dancing is key to how the duets develop. Structures may be developed in multiple ways, using written, spatial, physical, and vocal scores.