DANC3950

This is an open forum techniques course that offers students alternate movement practices from ones taught more consistently in the School of Dance. The course focuses on gaining new movement pathways and dance skills, and/or mastery of technical facility, qualitative expression, and bodily connectivity in a variety of dance forms. Students build technical and performance skills through exposure to increasingly complex movement material. This course may introduce alternate movement practice that help expand each dancers art horizon. Techniques taught can include but are not limited to: varied alternate ballet and contemporary forms, contact improvisation, forms from the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, varied somatic practices, theater practices, forms from the Pacific Islands diaspora, among others.

Fall and Spring