AIP: Junior Choreography Workshop
Course Description
Summary
Actions In Practice: Junior Choreography Workshop positions creative research as a multifaceted practice that includes dancing, reading, writing, drawing, sound-making and theatrical design. The course weaves choreographic practice and group study in a variety of collaborative, experimental and performative configurations. Time in class will be devoted to combinations of lectures, workshops, exercises, readings, discussions, viewings, listening sessions and individual/group choreographic experiments. Our sessions will also include the study of an ever changing and accumulating archive of artists, poets, scholars and activists to help deepen and expand our thinking/making, offering overlapping, potentially conflicting yet supportive examples of practice capable of refocusing and enlivening our perspectives. The course culminates in public sharings of student choreographic works.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to identify and create frameworks to expand relationships between dance, practice and theory.
- Students will be able to produce questions that stimulate and mobilize research methodologies.
- Students will be able to engage critical discourse, reflection and feedback as part of creative practice.
- Students will be able to explore different modes of presenting and exchanging ideas within the studio and through performative sharings.
Prerequisites
Previous dance composition experience required.