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3.00 Credits
This class provides an opportunity for students with no previous dance or theater experience to explore a range of creative and contemplative processes that serve as gateways to further training in dance and theater-based techniques and forms. We focus on body/mind awareness and the multitude of ways the body interacts with forms/practices leading us to a deeper sense of alignment, ease, joy and deep play. The development of individual presence and awareness of the dynamics of ensemble is emphasized throughout the semester. This course serves as prerequisite to PFAR dance and theater courses and is for students interested in embodied creative process and performance skills.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a rich, diverse exploration in contemporary forms such as Capoeira, Hip Hop, Contact Improvisation, Belly Dancing and other world forms. Through this cross-cultural exploration, students experience the deep fabric of culture and current trends through dance and music. Styles taught vary each semester and may vary within a semester. Students should contact the department to get specific information regarding dance styles being offered during the semester as well as other requirements that may apply.
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3.00 Credits
Investigating Performance invites students into the world of the performing arts-giving students an opportunity to engage in physical training and explore a range of interconnected dance and theater forms. A through line of technique (either dance or theater) is enhanced by a series of intensive workshops with guest artists from the BFA in Performance and PFAR faculty. This class culminates in a public showing of student created work. Prerequisite: PFAR 103 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on developing the awareness and skills that allow the performance artist's essential voice to speak and be heard. Students explore how the voice is a physical manifestation of the moving body and vice versa. We use physical exercises and improvisation to discover each student's unique voice. We also look at how to build ensemble soundscapes and explore presenting theatrical text. A forum is created in which the audience/performer relationship can be explored. The class is performanceoriented and requires regular solo and ensemble presentations as well as written assignments. Prerequisite: PFAR 203 or by permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This introductory course gives students a solid framework in the discipline of Performance Studies with readings coming from the various methodologies that inform Performance Studies, including but not limited to social anthropology, linguistics, sociology and performance theory. The seminar focuses on using the lens of "performance" to identify ways in which all aspects of human behavior and culture are performances. Attention is also given to reading strategies and critical writing. Prerequisite: COR 210/Section B.
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3.00 Credits
Contact Improvisation is the spontaneous dance of two or more people moving together while maintaining a physical connection and releasing into the flow of natural movement. The class follows a general progression of contact improvisation skills such as rolling, falling, taking and giving weight, playing with momentum and gravity, discovering ledges and levels and exploring different depths and textures of touch. Skills in individual, partner and group dances are developed. Both beginners and more experienced contact improvisers are welcome. Prerequisite: PFAR 103 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This class teaches dance and rhythm of one or more cultural traditions of Africa. Students learn to hold respect for cultural traditions including the role dance plays in community, the relationship between student and teacher and the joys of dance. Students are required to maintain a practice regimen and attend community-sponsored traditional African dance concerts. Students dance hard, have fun and are required to participate in a performance weekend at the end of the semester. Students are expected to wear traditional dance costumes for public performances and for class.
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3.00 Credits
While introducing text into the physical elements of improvisation, students explore the art of improvisation and storytelling. Through improvisation, students heighten their sense of listening, physical presence and the ability to tell a story from an honest place. Students enjoy exploring the physical and theatrical elements of improvisation through various modalities such as Viewpoints, character exploration and Viola Spolin-inspired theater games. This class is for students of any department who are looking to expand their listening, presentation and overall communications skills. Prerequisite: PFAR 103 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Students work from the notion of internal awareness while tapping into creativity and imagination as potent energetic forces that support the development of full, embodied dancing. Class includes warm-up/technical exercises inspired and influenced by a variety of movement forms/styles ranging from ballet, modern/postmodern, modern jazz, "release," somatic practices, as well as more inventive movement phrases that can open up into co-created working material. Musicality, rhythm and phrasing are important elements as well as working with silence as accompaniment.
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3.00 Credits
This class focuses on developing techniques to create new pathways in the body by drawing on elements of contemporary dance techniques that are influenced by Contact Improvisation, Body-Mind CenteringT, FeldenkraisT and Laban-based work. Students learn and practice choreographed movement phrases emphasizing efficiency, ease and momentum. Contemporary dance technique offers the individual a sense of flight and freedom in their movement by allowing the skeletal structure to provide the core strength for full body dancing. Using movement as the source of creativity and expression, this class explores the potential of the body starting with a slow warm up to align and awaken the body, progressing into invigorating and vitalizing dance. Prerequisite: PFAR 280 or permission of instructor.
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