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  • DANCE 221: Contemporary Performance Ensemble

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    One-half course for one semester. This course focuses on performance through the development, rehearsal, and production of a contemporary dance work. Students will address the technical, stylistic, and interpretive challenges of the choreographic material presented as well as developing and manipulating choreographic material of their own. Work in and out of class leading to performance will be supported through written responses, small group sessions, and critiques. Prerequisite: instructor's permission or by audition, held during the first week of classes. Offered on a credit/no credit basis only. May be repeated for credit, with departmental approval. Studio.
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  • DANCE 252: Improvisation

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    One-half or full course for one semester. Since the early 1960s, improvisation has played an increasingly sophisticated role in contemporary dance. This course will investigate contemporary improvisational practices that are at once creative, performative, and philosophic. The first half of the course will focus on contact improvisation, a partnering form that explores the exchange of physical support, the practice of which has challenged notions of gender roles, ability and disability, and community structure. The second half of the course will focus on choreographic improvisation, an ensemble form in which movement scores are developed and refined over time, and which has influenced changing views of the function of performance and the relationship of makers, performers, and viewers of dance. One year of dance technique or one year of intermediate-level creative work in visual art, music, theatre, or creative writing recommended. Studio.
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  • DANCE 311: Advanced Technique and Composition

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    Full course for one semester. This class will emphasize rigorous technical training and advanced work in choreography. Technical material will be drawn from classic modern as well as contemporary movement vocabularies and will include detailed work in alignment and introductory partnering. Choreography assignments will focus on using a variety of source materials and conceptual bases from which to generate both detailed movement phrases and formal structures. With permission of the instructor, the course may be repeated as an advanced practicum. Prerequisite: Dance 211 and 212 or equivalent experience. Studio.
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  • DANCE 312: Advanced Technique and Composition

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    Full course for one semester. This course provides advanced technical training in classic modern and contemporary movement vocabularies. Focused assignments in choreography will center on nonmusical sources for movement invention and various approaches to orchestration of movement material. With permission of the instructor, the course may be repeated as an advanced practicum. Prerequisite: Dance 211 and 212 or equivalent experience. Studio.
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  • DANCE 322: 20th Century American Dance

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    Full course for one semester. Beginning with the Diaghilev ballet and early pioneers of modern dance, this course traces the development of both modern dance and ballet in the United States. Covers the work of major 20th-century choreographers including Balanchine, Graham, Humphrey, Weidman, Nikolais, Cunningham, and the postmodernists. Lecture-conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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  • DANCE 330: Dance Theory and Criticism

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    Full course for one semester. A survey of the choreographic theories and criticism of major choreographers of the 20th century. Particular attention is given to Fokine, Balanchine, Graham, Humphrey, Cunningham, Nikolais, and the postmodern movement. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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  • DANCE 335: Special Projects in Choreography:Analogous Forms

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    One-half or full course for one semester. This course will explore concepts, creative processes, and formal concerns derived from literature, music, theatre, and the visual arts, as ways to expand and inform the dance-making process and as bases for interdisciplinary work. Prerequisite: Dance 211 or 212, or one year of dance technique and one year of intermediate-level creative process work in movement, music, theatre, writing, or the visual arts. Conference-studio.
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  • DANCE 340: Dance and Technology

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    One-half or full course for one semester. This course will explore image-making using computer animation, video, and digital photography. Emphasis will be on creating dance videos, with a look at important historical and living artists in the field. Students will create performance works exploring the combination of technologically created images and live performance. Prerequisite: Dance 211 and 212 (or Dance 210), one year of dance technique, or one year of intermediate-level creative work in dance, music, theatre, creative writing, or the visual arts. Studio. Not offered 2009-10.
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  • DANCE 351: Dance Traditions of Southeast Asian Civilization

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    Full course for one semester. This course is an in-depth study of cultural concepts for understanding the historical and artistic significance of choreographic works from Southeast Asia in the context of religion, and social and political development. We will explore classical dance forms including the Peking Opera of China, court dances of Cambodia, ceremonial and ritual dances of Burma and Indonesia, performing arts of Vietnam, and contemporary Asian dance works. Students will learn small, simple excerpts of traditional dances as a base from which to explore creative processes through cultural and anthropological perspectives of performing arts in Southeast Asia. Lecture-conference-studio. Not offered 2009-10.
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  • DANCE 481: Independent Study

    3.00 Credits
    Reed College

    One-half or full course for one semester. Prerequisite: approval of instructor and division.
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