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Critical Dance Processes: Research Studies — DAN4801B.01

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This course utilizes a seminar and workshop format focusing on conceptual, relational, and material frameworks of the choreographic. Through shaping a bibliographic course archive, we will source current developments within the field of contemporary art making. The class investigations, projects and discussions will yield imaginative and experimental directions for student鈥檚 development towards a senior thesis project.

Studio Practice: Ballet — DAN4815B.03, section 3

Instructor: Michael Sheridan
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 2

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.

Critical Dance Processes: Action Studies — DAN2509B.01

Instructor: Jesse Zaritt
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This course gives students the opportunity to encounter, participate in and design choreographic practices with an emphasis on the vast approaches to process and artistic research that are current and emergent in the expanded field of dance. The course challenges students to develop relationships to performance/performative action as research. We will engage practices where seeing and being seen by each other are central, studying the ways in which witnessing one another in process stimulates and deepens learning.

Studio Practice: Ballet — DAN4815B.06, section 6

Instructor: Michael Sheridan
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 2

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.