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Collaboration in Light, Movement and Clothes — DAN4286.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
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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Collaboration in Light, Movement, and Clothes — DAN4286.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Michael Giannitti, Dana Reitz, Charles Schoonmaker
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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Collaboration in Light, Movement, and Clothes — DAN4286.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Giannitti, Dana Reitz, Charles Schoonmaker
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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Collective dance practice and healing as creative process — DAN4363.01) (day/time updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: luciana achugar, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
This course is open to students with prior experience with dance and improvisation; or to those who have taken any of achugar’s prior classes using the Pleasure Practice.  During this course we will engage in a creative process together, attempting to create a performance based work as a collective using methods from somatic healing modalities and achugar’s Pleasure
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Composition: Program, Position, Process — DAN2155.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Eleanor Bauer
Credits: 1
In this course we will unpack the word “composition” as a guide for authoring, and we will work in groups to create a performance. Starting with co or com as in “with,” every act of creation is in some way collaborative or relational. We will borrow the notion of “program” from architecture as the coordination of all the constraints and agendas of a project into a transparent
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Contact Improvisation: Partnering Yourself, Partnering Others — DAN4374.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Londs Reuter
Days & Time: Tu 7:00PM-8:50PM, W 2:10PM-4:00PM
Credits: 2

Contact improvisation is an American movement form that uses sustained physical touch to create a dance with a partner. According to founding practitioner Nancy Stark Smith, contact improvisation "resembles other familiar duet forms, such as the embrace, wrestling, surfing, martial arts, and the Jitterbug, encompassing a wide range of movement from stillness to highly

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Contact Improvisation: Partnering Yourself, Partnering Others — DAN4374.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Londs Reuter
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

Contact improvisation is an American movement form that uses sustained physical touch to create a dance with a partner. According to founding practitioner Nancy Stark Smith, contact improvisation "resembles other familiar duet forms, such as the embrace, wrestling, surfing, martial arts, and the Jitterbug, encompassing a wide range of movement from stillness to highly

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Contact Improvisation: Tools for Life — DAN2356.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
In this course we will enliven both our individual and our partnering dance work, while learning the vocabulary that helps make Contact Improvisation an engaging non-verbal conversation. The ongoing learning process of Contact Improvisation involves developing skills related to weight sharing, jumping and rolling, sliding and gliding, finding a solo inside a duet, using the
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Contemporary African Dance I — DAN2124.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
Students are guided through a series of isolations, progressions, and concepts that demonstrate neo-traditional African dance styles combined with Solo Badolo’s own movement approach. Cultural, philosophical and aesthetic concepts are shared to assist in understanding and embodying the technique. With emphasis placed on grounded movement, articulation (head, torso, legs, arms)
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Contemporary African Dance I — DAN2124.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
Students are guided through a series of isolations, progressions, and concepts that demonstrate neo-traditional African dance styles combined with Solo Badolo’s own movement approach. Cultural, philosophical and aesthetic concepts are shared to assist in understanding and embodying the technique. With emphasis placed on grounded movement, articulation (head, torso, legs, arms)
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Contemporary African Dance I — DAN2124.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 1
Students are guided through a series of isolations, progressions, and concepts that demonstrate neo-traditional African dance styles combined with Solo Badolo’s own movement approach. Cultural, philosophical and aesthetic concepts are shared to assist in understanding and embodying the technique. With emphasis placed on grounded movement, articulation (head, torso, legs, arms)
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Contemporary African Dance I — DAN2124.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 1
Students are guided through a series of isolations, progressions, and concepts that demonstrate neo-traditional African dance styles combined with Solo Badolo’s own movement approach. Cultural, philosophical and aesthetic concepts are shared to assist in understanding and embodying the technique. With emphasis placed on grounded movement, articulation (head, torso, legs, arms)
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Contemporary African Dance II — DAN4675.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
Souleymane Badolo will teach his technique as well as choreographic segments from his larger works. Deeply involving ourselves in the harmonization of gesture, touch, listening and responding, we will work toward precision of movement in time and space, searching for the essence of movement. Registration: E-mail Dana Reitz on Nov 29 and include your experience; this will be
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Contemporary African Dance II — DAN4675.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 1
Souleymane Badolo will teach his technique as well as choreographic segments from his larger works. Deeply involving ourselves in the harmonization of gesture, touch, listening and responding, we will work toward precision of movement in time and space, searching for the essence of movement. This course will be offered the first seven weeks of term.
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Contemporary African Dance II — DAN4675.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
Souleymane Badolo will teach his technique as well as choreographic segments from his larger works. Deeply involving ourselves in the harmonization of gesture, touch, listening and responding, we will work toward precision of movement in time and space, searching for the essence of movement.
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Contemporary African I/Burkina Faso — DAN2307.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Rooted in Contemporary African dance; dancing over/under/inside and outside the tradition. This is a course in Souleymane Badolo's own movement style. We always begin class with a warm-up that involves both physical and mental preparation. We listen to internal rhythms and the beat of the music, learn about how to use the body in the space it occupies, and find ways of
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Contemporary African II/Burkina Faso — DAN4307.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Souleymane Badolo will teach his technique as well as choreographic segments from his larger works. Deeply involving ourselves in the harmonization of gesture, touch, listening and responding, we will work toward precision of movement in time and space, searching for the essence of movement. This course will be offered the first seven weeks of term.
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Contemporary African Movement Practices — DAN2120.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This course will engage students both physically and intellectually. The physical practice will be culled from traditional contemporary and popular dances from Burkina Faso (Louwaga, Wiré, Gurmantché, and Gurunsi), west and central Africa (N’dombolo), and urban Africa (such as Coupé-décalé), and western contemporary dance forms, including improvisation.  Students will
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Creating New Work from Traditional African Forms — DAN4134.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 4
This advanced course explores the process of re-imagining traditional dance techniques to create a contemporary aesthetic. Souleymane Badolo utilizes customary dances to generate new movement. The students will experience his creative practice of using concepts like rhythm, space and time to build vocabulary that reflects the metamorphosis of traditional forms. Students are
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Creative Strategies for Artists — APA2165.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Aaron Landsman
Credits: 2
This course examines production methods and career strategies for emerging artists, especially those working across genres. Specifically, we will focus on fundraising via donations, grants, commissions, day jobs and other sources; strategic planning, especially when looking at socially-engaged practice; written and verbal communications; working with venues; promotion and press
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Dance Improvisation Ensemble — DAN4311.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kota Yamazaki
Credits: 2
For students with extensive experience with dance improvisation. Our practice will involve developing scores by the participants using both solo and ensemble forms. Students may then show their work-on-progress in Workshops and/or in public performances.
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Dance Improvisation Ensemble — DAN4311.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
***TIME CHANGE*** The goal of this class is to develop and extend both solo and ensemble improvisational practices.  Working toward the performance of improvisation, we will determine appropriate settings and situations to extend our research outside the classroom. We’ll research the roots of improvisation in performance starting with the Judson Dance Theater, and look
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Dance Improvisation Ensemble — DAN4311.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Terry Creach
Credits: 1
The goal of this class is to develop and extend both solo and ensemble improvisational practices.  Working toward the performance of improvisation, we will determine appropriate settings and situations to extend our research outside the classroom. We’ll research the roots of improvisation in performance starting with the Judson Dance Theater, and look at the cultural
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