(POD) Performance Pedagogies of Dance: what soil lines our vessel
Course Description
Summary
In this course, students will learn performance recipes designed and arranged by Jasmine Hearn, who will reference repertory performance scores from their project, Memory Fleet – a continually expanding, episodic, migrating performance and archive project that builds an alternative archive for the preservation of shared memories and stories that center the work, rest, dreams, and memory of intersecting lessons shared by Melanie George, Acquenette LeBlanc, Ursula Payne, Staycee Pearl, Kendra Portier, Sandra Organ Solis, Jo Stewart, jhon r. stronks, Charmaine Warren, and Tara Aisha Willis.
Students will be taught choreography, recipes for improvisation and live composition, text, and songs. All students will be asked to contribute gestures and/or poetics from their lived experience to collaboratively shape all gathered creative materials into a collective dance and song for performance.
In person attendance is mandatory at all rehearsals.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will recognize and activate modes of learning that surface through the act of dance-making and dancing: interdependence through shared training, resilience, possibility.
- Students will develop relationships to practice and performance as research.
- Students will shape and participate in processes of critical feedback and self-reflection.
Prerequisites
Previous performance experience required; permission of instructor. This course is open to BFA and BA students.
Please contact the faculty member : jasminehearn@bennington.edu
Cross List
- Black Studies