Dance

This course provides a vibrant introduction to the traditional West African rhythms and movements of the Mandingo and Wolof communities. Students will embark on a journey through both drumming and dancing disciplines, mastering intricate rhythms that will expand their musical vocabulary and enhance their dance techniques.

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, assignments and discussions will yield imaginative

Critical Dance Processes: Action Studies moves students through intensive and collaborative dance research practices including guided improvisation, the making of solo performance studies, and the co-creative design of collective movement research scores. Reading and

This course is designed for students with a serious interest in dance, as well as those curious about exploring embodied cognition and movement practice, whether or not they have previous dance experience. Together we will investigate multiple aspects of embodiment, dance-making and performance, cultivating tools for attentive observation,

In order to construct a historical costume accurately one often needs to start with the foundation garments of that period. This course will examine how corsets and their construction play a role in recreating period silhouettes. Students will learn how to reproduce period corset patterns as well as construct the corsets with

Bodies carry histories, geographies, and invisible structures of everyday life.
In the quiet threshold of morning, we take time to sense and attune to these layers.

This fully remote, early-morning course invites guest artists based in Japan whose practices emerge from unique intersections of culture, daily life, and embodied research. Without

This course is designed for anyone interested in interdisciplinary artistic practices with a focus on dance creation, and improving the French language. Through the study and practical exploration of works by African choreographers and dancers, students will engage in both the analysis and creation of movement, developing skills in composition, improvisation, and

In this class we will explore the practice of meditation as a physical and mental training exercise and

This course is an introduction to Sabar (traditional dance, drum, and ceremony) from Sénégal and Gambia and Traditional West African Mandingo dance and music forms. We will build an improvisation practice that explores the dynamics between the musicians and dancers as well as how movement and live music can be experienced as a singular, integrated entity. We will also

These two-hour movement-based classes weave physical, emotional, and energetic awareness into a single focus.

Deeply rooted in Asian somatic philosophies, this work prioritizes cultivating "being in one’s own skin" over outward achievement. The practice maintains a strong contemplative core while working at the thresholds of perceived possibility.

This course is open to students at all levels of experience with body conditioning and/or dance. Class sessions will be approached as a form of exercise as well as a way to recover from injuries, misuse, excess or lack of physical activity. Incorporating tools and exercises from various physical practice modalities, including yoga,

Open to all levels, this course integrates movement, voice, writing, and song. These four-hour sessions apply the principles of "Contemplative Action" to a collective creative process. The work is framed by the teaching artist’s current project, which investigates the mythical figure of Cassandra and explores the "unheard voices" in our personal and collective

This course is for students with prior experience in dance making who wish to create new work for performance. We will share our work regularly, explore different feedback modalities, and reflect on our own individual artistic approaches and concerns. We will also explore various ways of articulating our work through written and spoken

An advanced studio-laboratory where nuanced movement, voice, and writing operate as one unstable system. The body is approached as a resonant instrument, with voice and text emerging as somatic extensions of the moving body.

Through rigorous physical

In this course, we will be uncovering, re-positioning, and affirming historical legacies and traditions that stand the risk of being lost forever, and explore how to use them to fight discrimination, racism and hate today. We will do so using Sankofa, a quest for knowledge through critical examination, patient investigation,

At the center of almost every live performance is a single human being who quite literally runs the show: the stage manager. This course will explore the stage manager's role as both an artist and an administrator, using the SM's wide-ranging responsibilities as a roadmap to understanding the production process and all the people involved in it.

Through readings,

Tai Chi (太极拳) is a Chinese martial art and meditative system. Its symbol is the well-known Yin–Yang (太极) diagram, representing balance and harmony.

This course is designed not only as a way to relax the body, reduce anxiety, and improve overall physical health, but also as an opportunity to learn the

What happens when you start a rehearsal process and you are not sure what you are wanting yet? How do you present movement phrases, concepts, and structures and incorporate new information from the performers? What is it that you see? How do you change your mind?

This is a laboratory setting to explore how to make, teach, and rehearse short selections of movement

How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect one’s

A World Building Workshop for Visual Storytelling

                                ...Aka the design process

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. <