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(PLACEHOLDER) Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.01, section 1

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

Performance Pedagogies of Dance (PODs) courses offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, linking studio practice, choreographic research processes and performance. Through participation in choreographic projects facilitated by faculty and guest artists, PODs are designed to help students recognize

(PLACEHOLDER): Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.02, section 2

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

Performance Pedagogies of Dance (PODs) courses offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, linking studio practice, choreographic research processes and performance. Through participation in choreographic projects facilitated by faculty and guest artists, PODs are designed to help students recognize

Actions in Practice — DAN4833B.01

Instructor: Sidra Bell
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 3

Actions in Practice employs Sidra Bell's CONTEMPORARY SYSTEMS, an interior and material approach to movement that encourages provocative thought and an immersive approach to the subject matter of the body. The work demands a high degree of physicality and input from the dancers, encouraging them to execute movement with intention, curiosity, and empathy.

Actions in Process: Junior Choreography Workshop — DAN4818B.01

Instructor: Jesse Zaritt
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

Actions In Process: 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

AIP: Junior Choreography Workshop — DAN4836B.01

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

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

CDP: Senior Seminar — DAN4802B.01

Instructor: Jesse Zaritt
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

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

CDP: Senior Seminar — DAN4802B.01

Instructor: Shayla-Vie Jenkins
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

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 for their research

CDP: Senior Thesis Workshop — DAN4803B.01

Instructor: Jesse Zaritt
Days & Time: W 10:00AM-2:00PM
Credits: 4

This course is designed to be the culmination of the BFA Dance Lab program. Critical Dance Processes: Senior Thesis Workshop supports projects emerging from research in and through the study of dance and results in the public sharing of a thesis work. Each student will propose a project, develop goals and objectives for the

CDP: Senior Thesis Workshop — DAN4803B.01, section 1

Instructor: Jesse Zaritt
Days & Time: W 10:00AM-2:00PM
Credits: 4

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 practice, the

CDP: Senior Thesis Workshop — DAN4803B.02, section 2

Instructor: Shayla-Vie Jenkins
Days & Time: W 10:00AM-2:00PM
Credits: 4

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 practice, the

CDP: Senior Thesis Workshop — DAN4803B.01, section 1

Instructor: Jesse Zaritt
Days & Time: W 10:00AM-2:00PM
Credits: 4

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 practice, the

CDP: Senior Thesis Workshop — DAN4803B.02, section 2

Instructor: Jesse Zaritt
Days & Time: W, 10:00AM-2:00PM
Credits: 4

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 practice, the

CDS: Contemporary Art Practices — DAN2510B.01

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

This course will introduce students to the multiple ways of “knowing and knowledges” that dance and dancing offers within and alongside the landscape of contemporary art making.  We will gather and engage with experiences, practices and processes that help to define what we think of as “contemporary” issues at the intersection of

Critical Dance Processes: Action Studies — DAN2509B.01

Instructor: Jesse Zaritt
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This course gives students the opportunity to encounter, participate in and design choreographic practices with an emphasis on the vast approaches to process and artistic research that are current and emergent in the expanded field of dance. The course challenges students to develop relationships to performance/performative action as research. We will engage practices where

Critical Dance Processes: Actions I — DAN4800B.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
BFA students only This course gives students the opportunity to encounter, participate in and design choreographic practices with an emphasis on the vast approaches to process and artistic research that are current and emergent in the expanded field of dance. The course challenges students to develop relationships to performance/performative action as research. We will engage

Critical Dance Processes: Research I — DAN4801B.01, section 1

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
BFA students only This course utilizes a seminar and workshop format focusing on conceptual, relational, and material frameworks of the choreographic. Through shaping a bibliographic course archive, we will source current developments within the field of contemporary art making. The class investigations, projects and discussion will yield imaginative and experimental

Critical Dance Processes: Research I — DAN4801B.02, section 2

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
BFA students only This course utilizes a seminar and workshop format focusing on conceptual, relational, and material frameworks of the choreographic. Through shaping a bibliographic course archive, we will source current developments within the field of contemporary art making. The class investigations, projects and discussion will yield imaginative and experimental directions

Critical Dance Processes: Research Studies — DAN4801B.01

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This course utilizes a seminar and workshop format focusing on conceptual, relational, and material frameworks of the choreographic. Through shaping a bibliographic course archive, we will source current developments within the field of contemporary art making. The class investigations, projects and discussions will yield imaginative and experimental directions for student’s

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