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Individualized Practice — DAN5400B.01

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
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Credits: 2

Through mentor approved independently paced work, students develop and schedule their own weekly, planned creative practices using student-initiated resources and/or classes. Mentors guide students through the designed plan that can include a combination of practices, techniques, technologies and methodologies. The study format should provide opportunity for varied approaches and choices.

Individualized Practice Lab — DAN5403B.01

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
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Credits: 2

This course allows students to self-design course work by combining topics and approaches from the Practice LABs and the Study LABs to meet required hours. The Individualized LABS take the form of a series of self directed intensive workshops and study immersions.

Variable Credit, 1-2 Credits

Study Group 1 — DAN5405B.01

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
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Credits: 2

What does studying together offer us critically that studying alone might not? Ariella Azoulay refers to studying with companions as a method of unlearning. What are the shifts experienced when you are studying with and alongside others? What conditions might group study provide that allow different questions and understandings to emerge? If, as Irit Rogoff states, 鈥淎ll research is collaborative,鈥 how might these study groups expand our thinking through collaborative practices? What methodologies emerge?

Independent Study — DAN5410B.01

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time:
Credits: 3 (BFA Only)

Students propose an independent study plan with approval from Donna Faye Burchfield and select an approved thinking partner/mentor.

Credits to be determined between faculty and student.

Variable Credit, 1-3 Credits

Studies Lab — DAN5402B.01

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time:
Credits: 2

Where and how does study happen? What is the value of study and how do we recognize that value? What does it mean to think of our study of dance and performance as an encounter and how might that thinking offer up a chance for one to pay attention differently? Is it different from research?  Or, as Kevin Quashie suggests, does it perhaps re-situate the activities of research, scholarship, teaching and practice in an important way? These Labs take the form of intensive workshops and/or lectures.

Variable Credit, 1-2 Credits

Critical Dance Processes: Research Studies — DAN4801B.01

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: W 2:10PM-4:00PM, 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.