Studio Practice: Combined Forms
Course Description
Summary
Studio Practice is designed to offer each student a rigorous and immersive dance study experience. A deep-dive into practices of critical physicality, students will be supported in making direct connections across an abundance of dance forms that rearrange and blur the boundaries between traditional and emerging techniques. Studio Practice courses focus on the relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, effort, force, and presence, all while moving within the lineages and histories that inform the ways in which we create and encounter our dancing futures. Dancers learn to translate and adapt across forms while focusing on the unique and inherent expressivity of each methodology offered.
Required Studio Practice Lab for Section 1 meets Thursday, 10:00-11:50am.
This course is open to BFA and BA students.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will foster critical thinking about the dancing body and ways of moving
- Students will combine and organize a body practice that reflects on and supports the physical demands of the expanding fields of dance research and performance
- Students will integrate movement through the frames of time, space and poetics
- Students will demonstrate readiness to assume the working life of a professional dancer, whether in academia, world stages or within one鈥檚 community