Dance

Course System Home All Areas of Study Dance

Select Filters and then click Apply to load new results

Term
Time & Day Offered
Level
Credits
Course Duration

Up/Side/Down — VA4321.01) (cancelled 7/17/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This is a practice for participants of any discipline who are interested in exploring the intersections between movement and drawing, actions and traces. We invite you to join us in an experiment. We want to consider/reconsider/resist/undermine/overwhelm/explode the question of how to make work under uncertain circumstances. These explorations will take the form of happenings.
Dance Visual Arts

Up/Side/Down: Drawing = Movement — DRW2164.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This is a practice for participants of any discipline who are interested in exploring the intersections between movement and drawing. We invite you to join us in an experiment. We want to consider/reconsider/resist/undermine/overwhelm/explode the question of how to make work under uncertain circumstances. These explorations will take the form of happenings. Happenings depend
Dance Visual Arts

Video Design for Dance — FV4104.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jeff larson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This workshop is concerned with investigating the integration of digital video in dance performance. Using a program called Isadora, basic control modules can be programmed, allowing dance and video students and faculty to create, manipulate, and present video content as an meaningfully integrated element of live performance. The technology will also be explored in tandem with
Dance Visual Arts

Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on
Dance Drama

Wearable Paper Prints Experiment — PRI4215.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course will explore the potential of wearable paper prints. To start, we will learn and practice simple printing methods that allow us to make prints into “use objects” that can be worn on the body. We will begin by looking at simple examples of paper dresses, party favors, disposable protection gear, and halloween costumes, as well as historical examples ranging from Dada
Dance Music Visual Arts

What is Performing, Anyway? — DAN4028.01) (time updated as of 9/26/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
What actually goes on when performing? Your interior environment changes from moment to moment; things change in the exterior environment as well. We process information from the audience as we perform. We constantly adapt. Creating a score for performance requires attention to detail – movement and space, timing, shifts of focus, intention, repetition, surprise, juxtaposition
Dance

When Technology and the Human Body become Partners, Who Leads? — DAN4294.02

Spring 2024
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 1
This hands-on intensive course is taught by visiting artist Cathy Weis, who will be showing videos she shot in the studios and on the streets of New York City from 1983 to today. Examining these archival videos will serve as a launching pad for students to begin their own collaborative projects. Through these collaborative projects, students will have an opportunity to expand
Dance Visual Arts

Whenever Wherever Festival: As a Celebration of Diverse Communities — APA2283.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Playing with a concept of festival as celebration of our daily life and as a space to exchange individual history, creativity and expression, students will plan, develop, organize and conduct mini-events using any forms—such as workshop, performance, participatory installation, exploratory tour, tea ceremony or ritual. Students are encouraged to research, connect to and
CAPA Dance

Why Bodies Matter: An Introduction to Dance Studies — DAN2348.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 4
Even now, or perhaps especially now, the state of our moving and breathing bodies is critical to how we operate in the world. This course is open to students of any discipline who wish to explore the impact and implications of embodiment and its relationship to art, culture, politics and power.  The course will introduce students to some of the principal concerns and
Dance

Why Bodies Matter: An Introduction to Dance Studies — DAN2348.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
Even now, or perhaps especially now, the state of our moving and breathing bodies is critical to how we operate in the world. Dance Studies is an emergent interdisciplinary field of academic inquiry that considers dance, corporeality and embodied experience as important and valuable forms of knowledge in the creation and distribution of cultural discourse. This course will
Dance

Windfall — DRA4159.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Sherry Kramer Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course explores movement, improvisation and text in order to generate patterns of discovery and interstitiality. We will investigate wind—from summer breezes to 100-miles an hour derechos; trees--from redwoods to bonsai; and bounty--as it exists in the riches of the natural world and the man-made worlds of money, greed, generosity, exploitation, and exaltation. We will
Dance Drama

Women Rock: Dancing with the Erotic Feminine — DAN2021.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
In this class, we will move with the sonic history of women in Rock n Roll, Blues, Punk, Pop and Dance music as a catalyst to explore erotic feminine archetype qualities.  We will dance hard with the music loud, flow eloquently with the ballads, then turn the music off and see where our movement impulses are at.  We will dance secular styles, explore floorwork,
Dance

Working With Light — DRA2234.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
Lighting design has the powerful ability to shape the experience of an audience. Its practice incorporates elements of artistry and craft, and should interest those working in all aspects of visual and performing arts. In addition to hands-on work with theatrical lighting equipment in and outside of class, awareness of light, play analysis and conceptualization, color, angle,
Dance Drama

Working With Light — DRA2234.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Lighting design has the powerful ability to shape the experience of an audience. Its practice incorporates elements of artistry and craft and should interest those working in all aspects of visual and performing arts. In addition to hands-on work with theatrical lighting equipment in and outside of class, awareness of light, play analysis and conceptualization, color, angle,
Dance Drama

Working With Light — DRA2234.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
Lighting design has the powerful ability to shape the experience of an audience. Its practice incorporates elements of artistry and craft, and should interest those working in all aspects of visual and performing arts. In addition to hands-on work with theatrical lighting equipment in and outside of class, awareness of light, play analysis and conceptualization, color, angle,
Dance Drama

Working With Light — DRA2234.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
Lighting design has the powerful ability to shape the experience of an audience. Its practice incorporates elements of artistry and craft, and should interest those working in all aspects of visual and performing arts. In addition to hands-on work with theatrical lighting equipment in and outside of class, awareness of light, play analysis and conceptualization, color, angle,
Dance Drama

Working With Light — DRA2234.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
Lighting design has the powerful ability to shape the experience of an audience. Its practice incorporates elements of artistry and craft and should interest those working in all aspects of visual and performing arts. In addition to hands-on work with theatrical lighting equipment in and outside of class, awareness of light, play analysis and conceptualization, color, angle,
Dance Drama

Working With Light — DRA2234.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 2

Lighting design has the powerful ability to shape the experience of an audience. Its practice incorporates elements of artistry and craft, and should interest those working in all aspects of visual and performing arts. In addition to hands-on work with theatrical lighting equipment in and outside of class, awareness of light, play analysis and conceptualization, color, angle

Dance Drama

Working With Light — DRA2234.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
Lighting design has the powerful ability to shape the experience of an audience. Its practice incorporates elements of artistry and craft, and should interest those working in all aspects of visual and performing arts. In addition to hands-on work with theatrical lighting equipment in and outside of class, awareness of light, play analysis and conceptualization, color, angle,
Dance Drama

Working with Movement: Cinema Dance — DAN2116.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Elliot Caplan
Credits: 4
A hands-on seminar conducted by Elliot Caplan to teach film/video and digital arts as collaborative tools for exploration of movement in dance, theatre, and the visual arts. It is intended for those interested in developing their aesthetic of the moving image rather than learning primarily the technical aspects of filmmaking. We work to clarify space in the frame. The dynamic
Dance Drama Visual Arts

World Dance Histories: Practices, Problems, Possibilities — DAN2228.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 4
The category of world dance, frequently used in the West to identify dance from various other cultural locations and traditions, begs the question: What kind of dance is not part of this world? This course introduces students to a selection of global dance practices via text and video that, while not exhaustive, will serve to expand students’ understanding of the roles dance
Dance

Yoga: Mindfulness and Cultivating a Peaceful Practice — DAN2023.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
This course will introduce students to the basic shapes and movements of yoga, along with a close reading of the yoga sutras. The yoga sutras serve as a guide to obtain wisdom and practice yogic philosophy in our everyday lives. Students will learn how to practice yoga on and off their mats, and will engage in exercises for both the body and mind. Beginners, intermediate, and
Dance

You Do You, Feldenkrais and Dancing: Scores for Improvisation — DAN2144.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Miguel Gutierrez
Credits: 2
The Feldenkrais Method® reawakens, restores and revitalizes the capacity for movement and function in all bodies. It is an spectacularly generative practice for people who are devoted to movement as a means of exploration and expression. In this workshop we will begin each day with an Awareness Through Movement lesson and from there go into scores for embodied improvisational
Dance