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Course Description

Summary

How do we notice the interrelationship of form and freedom in the world we see? How do we make new work in response to what we see in nature and art? How do we discover more about our own nature in forming thought and art? How do we make fluid forms in dance?

Looking at forms found in nature, architecture, music, drama, literature, etc., we search for examples to help formulate ideas and structures for movement-based creation. When making new artwork, we are constantly balancing and integrating the need for exploratory freedom and the desire for structural integrity. How do we use spontaneous impulse to help find form, and how do we use form to help find yet more unexpected solutions? How might we find an essential core that supports an investigation? How might we challenge and rigorously expand our ideas regarding form, and find ways to re-form?

Students are expected to make new movement material, develop work outside of class, teach some of the work to others, and, in return, learn material from others. They will show their compositional studies regularly, respond to the work of others, write about many aspects involved in their working processes, and draw (while observing others and while working in their own studio practices). Projects may be presented in studio showings or dance workshops. Students of intermediate/advanced level in the performing and/or visual arts are welcome. This course is designed to support students in finding their own ways of forming thought and art.