Studio Practice: Combined Forms (With Lab)
Course Description
Summary
Studio Practice is designed to offer each student a rigorous and immersive dance study experience. A deep-dive into practices of critical physicality, students will be supported in making direct connections across an abundance of dance forms that rearrange and blur the boundaries between traditional and emerging techniques. Studio Practice courses focus on the relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, effort and imagination, all while moving within the lineages and histories that inform and limit the ways in which we create and encounter our dancing futures. Dancers learn to multi-translate and adapt across forms while focusing on the inherent expressivity of each methodology offered.
Required Studio Practice Lab for Section 4 meets Fridays 10:30 - 12:20.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will foster critical thinking about the ways in which dance practices and techniques hold and shape lineage, citation, expressivity and potentiality.
- Students will begin to foster an understanding of how to combine and organize a body practice that reflects and supports the physical demands of their emerging artistic ideas and desires.
- Students will link their studio practice study to creation, rehearsal and performance processes both in the college and beyond.
Prerequisites
Previous dance experience required; permission of instructor. This course is open to BFA and BA students.