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This is the introductory course to Jump Rhythm Technique. In this technique, the goal is full-bodied rhythm-making - learning how to fuse the dancing body and singing voice into a highly energized, emotionally focused, rhythmically accurate percussion instrument. To dance rhythms through the whole body, we will primarily work on three action-ideas of the technique: being on the beat of the music, making clear rhythmic accents, and using the voice rhythmically. We will also focus on understanding musical and anatomical concepts and learn how to clarify energy instead of shape. These ideas will be implemented and practiced by learning a series of exercises, movement phrases and choreography that will be introduced in each class.
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This course will consider anatomy within the context of dance movement. The development of theoretical knowledge and understanding of anatomy will be supported by practical experience. This integration will encourage self-awareness and perceptual understanding of theoretical information. Somatic experience will be used to develop this awareness and understanding, and will be used to attend to anatomical points and functions. Aims of this course include: to develop ability to identify relationships between anatomy/physiology and function in dance performance; to develop understanding of optimal anatomical performance; to develop knowledge of anatomy in relation to dance-related injuries; to develop understanding of safe and healthy dance performance.
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This course explores the evolution of the field of dance criticism from its early traditions to contemporary practice. It focuses on the variety of approaches as well as the unique challenges in writing about dance. Some concert attendance required.
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Through rigorous studio practice, research, observation and documentation, Improvisation Into Performance will explore methods for translating the potency, chaos and pure creative energy of improvisation to the arena of public performance. Supported by values of immediacy, transparency and attention, course material will uncover and cultivate tools for bridging the gap between process and performance. Students will experiment with and refine the idiosyncratic logic of spontaneous composition while evolving a unique vocabulary that is both internally sourced and derived through conscious relationship to self, other, and environment, especially to "the witness" who is an essential component to the process. The course will follow two strands of related creative research: exposure to artists who work with improvisation as the bedrock of performance and self-directed explorations of movement/performance material. Students will expand their understanding of composition to include the unplanned, unknown and occluded, cultivate a productive relationship between habit and new discovery, and increase their agility for choosing/surrendering in-the-moment to direct/allow performance that is made in front of a witness.
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This course introduces the field of dance studies as an interdiscipline within the humanities. How do diverse forms of dance create meaning? How do the meanings of dance change over time and across cultures? What methods do dance scholars employ in these inquiries? These questions are pursued through a multidimensional case study of theatrical and social dance forms in U.S. Culture from 1900 through 1960. This course is a requirement for Dance Majors, an elective for other students in the School of Communication, and fulfills humanities distribution requirements for students in other schools.
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In this class students will explore the various styles of original Broadway choreography through the study of jazz, tap, modern and ballet dance. This is a repertoire class- not a technique class. Each class will consist of a short warm-up period and will focus primarily on choreography from Broadway shows.
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This course immerses students into embodied research of movement/dance composition and requires a willingness for wholehearted self-discovery through movement and relationship. Class sessions will focus on discussion and solo and group movement laboratories that expand our awareness of and agility with the inherent structural, formal, compositional, relational tendencies within each individual's evolving and personal movement vocabularies. Students will be invited to embrace provocations to shed limiting beliefs about the body (its form or function) and to expose and reframe reductive approaches to movement, all in pursuit of an individual movement voice that is articulate, idiosyncratic, complex, and meaningful. Woven throughout the course will be compositional "mini-clinics" that familiarize students with fundamental principles of dance composition (relationships to space, time, energy, intention, "other"), while acknowledging a context much larger than a particular aesthetic, form, or preference. In class/out of class work will include vital and imaginative maintenance of a journal (please wait for instructions before purchasing), and "awareness" assignments designed to strengthen perception of kinetic experience and relationship to environment.
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This class will cover a variety of modern styles through a process of technical survey. Level II placement required. Not as traditional in format as the other Modern II classes.
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This advanced intermediate technique class focuses on improving alignment, building strength, and increasing whole body awareness and dexterity within and through the codified exercises and enchainment of classical ballet. In the progression from barre to center, the class encourages the discovery and understanding of the anatomy and kinesiology involved in the sound execution of classical movements and positions and a rigorous engagement of mind and body in the quest towards physical virtuosity and performance presence. The class also looks at the ways in which classical ballet technique can inform and be informed by other modes of contemporary dance training.
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