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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course, designed for directors/actors/playwrights and dancers/choreographers, provides a deep investigation of the properties of both dance and theater and will offer students tools to manipulate dramatic literature and movement in the arenas of abstraction and narrative. The course will look at the dynamic and fertile relationship that exists between dance and theater and will focus on generating work that marries these two forms. It will be a hyper-generative class where students create many small studies over the term.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
In the repertory component of the course, students will learn and collaborate with faculty to develop a new dance. The choreography component will guide students through improvisation to explore theme, concepts and structures to nurture the development of a personal movement style. Students will read essays about and view videos of the major figures in 20th Century dance to broaden their understanding of dance's position in the world of art and ideas.
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This course examines the history of American musical theater dance through lecture/discussion and a studio component involving musical theater dance classes. The study traces the genre's evolution through a variety of venues including: spectacle, vaudeville, musicals and revues. A primary focus of the course is the period referred to as The Golden Age of the American musical (1943-1964). How choreographers emerging from newly formed modern and ballet companies changed the function of dance in musicals and exposed commercial audiences to cultural trends and social commentary through the language dance is a focus of the course.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will expose students to the most recent developments in dance studies. While engaging with a variety of dance forms from different cultures, students will explore analytical strategies and familiarize themselves with the methodologies used by dance scholars in their interpretations of bodies in motion. They will examine how social theories inform the understanding of dance and, vice versa, how the analysis of dance contributes to the development of social theories. Topics to be covered include: dance as a product of culture, as a social form of expression, as cultural identity, and as political power.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course is integrates a critical study of the sources and bounds of movement knowledge with the experience of bodily cognition and the development of physical agency. We will incorporate research in cognitive studies, neuroscience, and dance epistemology with experiences of multiple somatics modalities and functional anatomy to expose students to theories of embodied agency and ask what it means to 'know' in the body. We will focus on seeking physical knowledge to generate new movement languages and acquire efficient movement patterns within our bodies, our minds, and ourselves.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Advanced dance technique and choreography, with a focus on contemporary practices. In technique, students will be challenged to expand their movement range and increase their mastery of various styles in ways required by today's dance world. Students will examine concepts such as skeletal support, sequential movement, and momentum to emphasize ease and efficiency in motion. In choreography, students will work together on group objectives in movement-based laboratories focusing on collaboration and choreographic choice-making skills.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Students will master the performance of a technically advanced choreographic work with the aim to further challenge their technical expertise, expressive range, and stylistic clarity. Students will also create choreography infusing movement invention with ideas informed by historical and contemporary dance practices. This course culminates in a performance.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course covers the study and performance of contemporary dances. Emphasizing performance techniques encouraging rich, subtle, and stylistically accurate renditions of the repertoire while fostering intelligent and imaginative artistic interpretations. Student choreography will be geared toward the creation of small ensembles. The study of existing master works will be done by viewing videotapes of the dance literature, attending live concerts, and reading and analyzing historical works.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Studio course in ballet technique and repertory for Adv/Int dancers. The course consists of a pre-professional ballet class and selections of classical, neo-classical and contemporary ballet repertory. The course will focus on three different choreographers: Jerome Robbins, Frederick Ashton, Karole Armitage. Students will be coached by internationally known guest artists, including Robert La Fosse, Hilary Cartwright, Karole Armitage, to master and understand the diverse styles of each piece of repertory learned. Readings and viewings of live and taped performances will further students' knowledge of major trends in 20th Century ballet.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course explores major trends in modern Japanese literature from the 1870s to the present. Important themes and narrative forms will be identified with attention to intellectual and cultural currents. Topics include artistic responses to modernization and urbanization; the impact of the war and the occupation on literature; gender and discursive practices; postmodernism. Films will be shown in conjunction with some of the works. Knowledge of Japanese not required.
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