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The Art of Rehearsing — DAN4229.01

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

What happens when you start a rehearsal process and you are not sure what you are wanting yet? How do you present movement phrases, concepts, and structures and incorporate new information from the performers? What is it that you see? How do you change your mind?

Resisting The Stitch — DRA4027.01

Instructor: Richard MacPike
Days & Time: FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

This class is an exploration in fabric modification through the use of dyes and various stitched resist techniques often referred to as shibori. Students will learn to work with acid, direct, cold process, union, and natural dyes. Concurrently students will learn a variety of resist techniques such as kanoko, mokume, orinui, makinui, karamatsu, boshi, arashi, itajime, adire eleso, and katano which create patterns and designs on fabrics when dyed and/or overdyed.

Advanced Improvisation: Scene Work — DRA4386.01

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

In this 7-week course, we’ll explore a variety of approaches to improvised scene work, focusing on techniques beyond the Upright Citizens Brigade paradigm. Emphasizing Chicago-style improv, we’ll shift away from a strict ‘Game’ focus and instead prioritize relationship and character.

Get ready to jump in, take risks, and perform hundreds of scenes as you sharpen your skills and expand your improv toolkit. And of course, we’ll top it all off with a final class show where anything can happen!

About Time — MCO4109.01

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

In this course, students will work on an extended piece (10+ minutes), as well as a suite of miniatures (< 30 seconds). By playing with scale and continuity, students will be challenged to find their own way to extend their ideas while enriching their own musical language. Students can propose a piece in any style or forces, and we will work together to recruit instrumentalists or resources towards an end-of-term performance or installation.

Ndaga a way of making dance — DAN4486.01

Instructor: Kaolack Ndiaye
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

We can define Ndaga as the awareness of legacy and debt, border crossing, re/invention, re/creation, and the desire to create new space for time travel. This is a self-journey. This course is for students who wish to find their artistic voices by exploring an interdisciplinary approach to making work.

Economics in the Postcolonial Context — PEC4107.01

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

How have economic histories and past structures shaped present-day realities? Why do patterns of inequality persist between the Global North and South? This course examines these questions by exploring the long-lasting economic effects of colonial encounters—not just on the economies of formerly colonized countries, but also on those of the colonizers.