DANC 181 - Contact Improvisation I

Institution:

Point Park University

Subject:

DANCE

Description:

Course Description: Discovery and cultivation of the principles and skills of contact improvisation dance technique practice. Contact improvisation is an improvisational duet dance form based on sensation, weight, touch, communication and essential connection between two people, influenced by modern dance, martial arts, social dance and cultural values of its time of inception. Prerequisite: Dance Major. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to: (1) Cultivate somatically based mind/body awareness and integration of sensing, thinking, feeling and intuiting. (2) Gain an embodied knowledge of the principles and skills of contact improvisation, how they relate to other techniques. (3) Increase facility in generating movement spontaneously with awareness, skill and expressive clarity. (4) Deepen range and access to physical awareness, experimentation and personal expressive movement choices in Improvisation. (5) Develop a sense of contact improvisation as a historical form and in relation to the contemporary dance field today.

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pointpark.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 391-4100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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