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Ballet Anarchy — DAN4181.01) (cancelled 9/28/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 2
This course is designed for students who have some ballet experience and are familiar withballet terms and movement vocabulary. While following basic structure and vocabularies that are being used in a traditional ballet class, this course, accompanied by non-traditional music scores such as pop music, offers an opportunity to recalibrate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand,
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Basic Anatomy — DAN2132.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
To understand the working of our own bodies, we will examine bones, deep muscles, organs, and nerves using images, visualization and touch, working to facilitate the ability to access the innate intelligence of each participants own unique mechanism. We will study the relationship and coordination between anatomical landmarks for a more thoughtful exploration of possibility and
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Basic Anatomy of the Moving Body — DAN2132.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: elena demyanenko
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
To understand the working of our own bodies, we will examine bones, deep muscles, organs, and nerves using illustrated images and visualization. We will then work to facilitate the ability to access the innate intelligence of each participant’s own unique physical patterns. We will study the relationship and coordination between anatomical landmarks for a more thoughtful
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Basic Audio Technology for Drama/Dance Productions — MSR2212.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 1
With a focus on Q Lab software and basic computer concepts, students will run audio/video from a computer through A/V distribution (mixing board, video switcher) and out into a theater space. The basics of wiring audio gear and how to think about sound will be covered. Having a Mac Laptop is a plus, but there will be a lab computer available.
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Basic Design Techniques of Theatrical Sound — DRA2245.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Leon Rothenberg
Credits: 1
Over four intensive sessions we will discuss the creative process of designing sound for plays and will look at the hardware and software tools used to express these designs. In the first two classes students will be introduced to the recording, editing and mixing techniques used in preparing music and sounds for theatrical productions. In the second weekend we will look at
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Beyond Butoh - A Body Not To Be Consumed — DAN4327.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 2
This advanced level movement-based course is designed for students with prior experience in dance technique or movement practice. By using a series of breath, somatic, improvisational and compositional practices inspired by butoh, we will develop ways of embodying unorthodox and complex ideas dealing with the ever-becoming, inconsumable, and vaporizing body. Students will be
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Bon Dance: A Cultural and Traditional Japanese Dance Experience — CSL2008.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: MO 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

This comprehensive course offers an immersive introduction to Bon Dance, a time-honored Japanese dance form traditionally performed during the Obon festival, which honors the spirits of ancestors. Designed for participants of all experience levels, the course provides a profound understanding of the dance's cultural significance while teaching basic Japanese

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Butoh — DAN2105.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kota Yamazaki
Credits: 2
Class starts with quiet and soft warm-up exercises with the intention of letting all tension go from your body and mind. A relaxed body with no expectation will allow you to be open and available to whatever comes to you. In Butoh, by accepting both what's surrounding you and what's happening inside yourself, using imagination and establishing a sense of presence, your body
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Butoh Extension—In search of dance of darkness — DAN4245.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This advanced level project-based course is designed for students, who have prior experience of making a work around a body, especially (yet not limited) in dance, theater and visual arts context. Inspired by butoh-based movement practice and philosophies, students will seek a way of liberating a body from socially pre-conditioned self. While engaging in some particular somatic
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Butoh I: Body Weather Laboratory — DAN2127.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Oguri
Credits: 2
This course provides a foundational physical training for the performer, with emphasis on physical articulation and individual movement patterns. This training demands a thorough reexamination of the body and movement within different and changing environments. It includes 3 training modalities: 1) MB Training: Rigorous mind/body, muscle/bone movement/balance training;
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Butoh II: Body Weather Laboratory — DAN4131.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Oguri
Credits: 2
For students with some previous experience with movement this course provides a foundational physical training for the performer, with emphasis on physical articulation and individual movement patterns. This training demands a thorough reexamination of the body and movement within different and changing environments. It includes 3 training modalities: 1) MB Training: Rigorous
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Butoh Intensive- In Search of Dance of Darkness — DAN4245.01) (day/time updated as of 9/27/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 4
This advanced level intensive butoh course is designed for students, who have prior experience of making a work around a body, especially (yet not limited) in dance, theater and visual arts context. Inspired by butoh-based movement practice and eastern philosophies, students will seek a way of liberating a body from socially pre-conditioned self. While studying particular
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Butoh Intensive- In Search of Dance of Darkness — DAN4245.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 4
This advanced level intensive course is designed for students who have prior experience of making a work around a body, especially (yet not limited) in dance, theater and visual arts contexts. Inspired by butoh-based movement practice, Buddhism and French post-structuralism philosophies, students will seek a way of liberating a body from a socially pre-conditioned self. While
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Butoh Intensive: In Search of Dance of Darkness — DAN4245.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

This advanced level intensive course is designed for students who have prior experience of making a work around a body, especially (yet not limited) in dance, theater and visual arts contexts. Inspired by butoh-based movement practice, Buddhism and French post-structuralism philosophies, students will seek a way of liberating a body from a

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Butoh Intensive—In search of dance of darkness — DAN4245.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 4
This advanced level intensive butoh course is designed for students, who have prior experience of making a work around a body, especially (yet not limited) in dance, theater and visual arts context. Inspired by butoh-based movement practice and eastern philosophies, students will seek a way of liberating a body from socially pre-conditioned self. While studying particular
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Camera and the Body: Peculiar Ways of Knowing — DAN2208.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

This course delves into the interdisciplinary art of screendance, examining the mediatization of the moving body within cinematic and site-specific contexts. By exploring the dynamic collaboration between camera, body, and environment, students will study a range of methods used by film and video artists—both historical and contemporary

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Camera and the Body: Peculiar Ways of Knowing — DAN4142.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko with guest faculty Ray Sun
Credits: 4
This hands-on course co-taught by dance faculty Elena Demyanenko and guest video-artist Ray Sun will utilize moving camera exercises, selected film screenings and improvisational games to give students an opportunity to expand and refine their own visual sensibilities, with the goal of creating collaborative multi-media projects. We will explore and analyze the creative choices
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Camera and the Body: Peculiar Ways of Knowing — DAN4142.01) (cancelled 9/26/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This hands-on course co-taught by dance faculty Elena Demyanenko, with guests video-artists present will utilize camera/iPhone exercises, selected film screenings (to understand a range of perspectives), and improvisational games to give students an opportunity to expand and refine their own visual sensibilities with the goal of creating collaborative dance and camera
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Cheap Art Dance Circus — DAN2236.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Based on the circus making style of the Bread and Puppet Theater, this is a class for anyone interested in making a fast, cheap, beautiful, frenetic dance/puppet circus. Students will learn techniques in: lo-tech, fast puppet/mask building with basic tools and materials; Cantastoria (story-singer) crafting; choreographing for large groups; singing/ music making; and editing
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Co/Lab: Mediating Performance — FV4325.02

Fall 2023
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Credits: 2
This 7-week, intermediate-level course is designed to overlap with Dance in the Frame and to facilitate collaborations between performers and other makers, particularly moving image artists and creators interested in interactivity. Students will have the opportunity to work closely with dancers for the first half of class each week, staging and shooting material in weekly
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Coffee Clowns — DAN4183.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This is not a red-nose clown class, but rather one geared toward breaking open the definition of what clowning is and can be. We will use physical theater techniques, objects, and different locations to evoke characters that are of the human form and beyond. We will experiment with both solo and group practice. Warmups will include somatic training,
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Collaboration in Light, Movement & Clothes — DAN4286.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
Visual elements are a significant component of performance, whether it be theater, performance art, music or dance. With many performance projects, there is little time to contemplate, rethink or adjust designs in the actual performance space; there is rarely an opportunity to watch a collaborative art develop. In this class, equipped space is available to give the time to
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