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Critical Dance Studies — DAN2500B.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course looks through multiple modes of questioning, research, and a critically theoretical lens to put into consideration the complex ways that dance shapes and reflects our lives. We will look to scholars, artists, thinkers, and ourselves to process the elliptical paths people take to understand material existence through the relationality of dance. We will try to bring a

Individualized Practice + Process — DAN4817B.01, section 1

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: F 2:00PM-3:00PM
Credits: 1

This course will act as a lab/workshop space for first and second year students in the BFA program; it is linked to Sidra Bell's Actions in Practice course. Students will be guided through the process of developing, researching and rehearsing a performance work,  ultimately bringing the work to a public.

Students earn one credit for this course.

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.01, section 1

Instructor: Kyle Clark
Days & Time: See course description for days/times
Credits: 3

PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.03, section 3

Instructor: Kayla Farrish
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 3

PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.04, section 4

Instructor: Mark Caserta
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 3

PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.01, section 1

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 3
BFA students only PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.02, section 2

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 3
BFA students only PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.03, section 3

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 3
BFA students only PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times

Performance Pedagogies Of Dance — DAN4816B.01, section 1

Instructor: Cameron Childs
Days & Time: Tu/F 7:00PM-8:50PM
Credits: 3

PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.04, section 4

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 3
BFA students only PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times

Performance Pedagogies Of Dance — DAN4816B.02, section 2

Instructor: Niall Jones
Days & Time: Tu/F 7:00PM-8:50PM
Credits: 2

PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.03, section 3

Instructor: Danielle Swatzie
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 3

PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.04, section 4

Instructor: Mark Haim
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 3

PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.02, section 2

Instructor: Juel Lane
Days & Time: See course description for days/times
Credits: 3

PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in

Reading as a Collective Act: Thinking Through Dance and Performance — DAN4819B.01

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: M 1:40PM-3:30PM, W 10:00AM-11:50AM
Credits: 4

This course aims to experiment with generative and alternative forms of reading that can be thought of as not only a methodology, but as a practice that supports us as we engage in research with, alongside and through study in dance and performance. We will ask ourselves what it means to read and “make sense” of texts and events today…together. 

Senior Seminar — DAN4802B.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
BFA students only This seminar course explores and enacts multidirectional modes of research in and through dance. The course moves through lectures, workshops and experiments that activate processes of creation/performance and guide each student in the development of a portfolio of documents related to professional practice. Students will create social and public platforms

Senior Thesis Workshop — DAN4803B.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
BFA students only This course is designed to be the culmination of the BFA program for all dance majors. Each student will propose a thesis project, develop goals and objectives for the semester, and present their work. Modes of practicing, situating and expressing thesis project research will be mobilized and extended through ongoing critical dialogue. We will attend to, in

Studio Practice + Process: Afro-Contemporary Performance Making: Sampling + Poetics + Sonics — DAN4805B.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 3
Morning sessions of the course will explore the connection between traditional West African grooves and contemporary/modern modalities. The expression of polyrhythms through House Music, Afrobeat, Afro Jazz and traditional West African sonics act as a compass toward the manipulation of rhythm. Writing + improvisation will be tools we use to wander through the voicing of

Studio Practice + Process: Insistence/Persistence: Dancing/Drawing/Writing — DAN4808B.03

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 3
Morning sessions will begin with guided research practices that examine relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, organizations of effort/force and ideology/aesthetics: practices of critical physicality! Phrase-work will be shared as a portal to play. Choreographed material will act as a set of coordinates that anchor an exploration of exaggeration and sensation. We’ll

Studio Practice + Process: Minor De Luxe: a mass(mess) for body and other rogue im/materials — DAN4804B.03

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 3
“...as if I’d lost my center of gravity” (Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes)   Swerving between forms, against containment, minor de luxe is something like a fall; a study on turbulence and beauty.    CLASS remains UNDER CONSTRUCTION   “YOU READY?”    Site Collapse Scale Enclosure Archive Matter Material   Immaterial Always,

Studio Practice + Process: Moving From the Inside Out — DAN4806B.02

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 3
Matteson: An investigation of off-balanced yet precise multi-focused movement and partnering. Classes begin with mindful walking, rolling, and flow pattern practices followed by “yes dance” improvisations to gather our attention and set a tone of tender touch. From there, we progress through a series of spiraling sequences that establish a buoyant relationship with the floor,

Studio Practice + Process: Play Effort Catharsis — DAN4807B.04

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 3
BFA students only Jenkins: This class aims to maximize each student’s movement possibilities in a safe, yet rigorous container. We will hone our kinesthetic awareness particularly focusing on the perception of weight and gravity in movement. Class begins with floor work, drawing from meditation, yoga, somatic practices, and Laban/Bartenieff developmental movement principles.