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Morning Mind-Body Teleportation: An Intimate Conversation with Self and Others — DAN2362.01

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

How can we be together, interact with each other, create something together, share physical experiences….when we are physically not in the same space and time? In light of the above question, this course will be fully remote, facilitated through a combination of synchronous remote sessions and individual outside-class projects.<

Dance

Morning Mind-Body Teleportation: An Intimate Conversation with Self and Others — DAN2362.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 2
How can we be together and create something together, when we are physically not in the same space and time? In light of the above question, this course will be fully remote, facilitated through a combination of synchronous remote sessions and individual outside-class projects. Throughout the course, with body-centered minds, we will interview each other, and exchange
Dance

Morning Plainchant — MPF2202.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 2
We sing together in the early morning. Every week. Public plainchant from the mass and private chants from the monastic Hours. Latin chants that celebrate Christian feasts, chants that echo songs from ancient Rome, chants that explode from the late medieval Cult of Mary, and its companion phenomenon, courtly love. As we sing we sense the breath and thought of thousands of
Music

Mother Figure and Motherly Figures — ITA4603.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course explores the concept of motherhood and the role of the mother in Italian culture through literature, film, art, and music. Some of the questions that the course will try to answer are: What are the implications and ramifications of such a crucial institution as motherhood in Italian society, for both women and men? How does motherhood affect the modern family, and
Languages

Mother Figure and Motherly Figures in Italian Culture – Taught in English — ITA2117.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
This course explores the concept of motherhood and the role of the mother in Italian culture primarily through literature and film, but also through art and music. Particular attention will be given to the history of Italian women’s writing and Italian feminist thought. Some of the questions that the course will ask are: What are the implications and ramifications of the
Languages

Motion Capture Workshop — MA4126.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Sue Rees; Jean Randich
Credits: 2
This workshop is concerned with investigating the interaction of projected manipulated imagery with performers, motion, and space. We will explore spaces and objects through 3d mapping; the results will then be manipulated and projected back into the space. We will also explore performers movement through motion capture of gestures that will be further manipulated digitally.
Visual Arts

Motion Capture: Interactivity — DRA4208.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Joshua Higgason
Credits: 4
This workshop is concerned with investigating the interaction of projected manipulated imagery with performers, motion, and space and its use in performance. Using Watchout, a multi-display production software, and utilizing various other tools such as live cameras, animations, motion sensing input devices, and real-world inputs, students will investigate the integration of
Drama Visual Arts

Mountain Dulcimer — MIN2224.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: john kirk
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A comprehensive course on learning skills on the mountain (aka lap) dulcimer. We will learn the history of the dulcimer and both traditional and contemporary styles. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform (as a group or individually) at Music Workshop. Students will purchase a lap dulcimer kit and construct the instrument as
Music

Mountain Dulcimer (Lap Dulcimer) — MIN2224.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
A comprehensive course on learning personal music making skills on the Mountain (aka Lap) Dulcimer. History of the Dulcimer and many different styles will be learned both traditional and contemporary. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform ( as a group or individually) at Music Workshop. Corequisites: Students must also
Music

Mountain Dulcimer (Lap Dulcimer) — MIN2224.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A comprehensive course on learning skills on the mountain (aka lap) dulcimer. We will learn the history of the dulcimer and both traditional and contemporary styles. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform (as a group or individually) at Music Workshop. Students will purchase a lap dulcimer kit and construct the instrument as
Music

Mountain Dulcimer (Lap Dulcimer) — MIN2224.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
A comprehensive course on learning skills on the mountain (aka lap) dulcimer. We will learn the history of the dulcimer and both traditional and contemporary styles. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform (as a group or individually) at Music Workshop. Students will purchase a lap dulcimer kit and construct the instrument as
Music

Mouvements — FRE4610.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

This course will examine movement–travel, migration, and transition–in the French-speaking world. We’ll examine the travel tale as philosophical form (Candide), the sonnet, Orientalism, the graphic novels of Marjane Satrapi, films of Josephine Baker, queer movement in the work of Abdellah Taïa, the North Atlantic Triangle (Maboula Soumahoro), and the gender transition of

French

Mouvements — FRE4404.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
This course will examine movement--travel, migration, and transition--in the French-speaking world. We'll examine the travel tale as philosophical form (Candide), the sonnet, Orientalism, the graphic novels of Marjane Satrapi, queer movement in the work of Abdellah Taïa, the North Atlantic Triangle (Maboula Soumahoro), and the gender transition of Océan. Students will write a
Cultural Studies and Languages

Movement and Language: Colliding Bodies and Words — DAN4408.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
This course examines ways in which language, through written and vocalized forms, can be employed as potentially expansive tools within movement-based performance. We will look at language through a choreographic and corporeal lens, combining research on artists who engage with language and body-generated speaking and sounding, as well as our own improvisational and creative
Dance

Movement Patterning Self Perception: The Feldenkrais Method® — DAN2145.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 1
In this course, you'll have the chance to experience the Feldenkrais Method® through a series of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons. The Feldenkrais Method® studies the works of our nervous system and our ability to recognize and create movement patterns that are both more efficient and more pleasant. Feldenkrais lessons will be the framework for exploring how our
Dance

Movement Practice: (de)composing dance, choreographing breath — DAN4185.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 1
This course is open to students from all disciplines with an interest in movement and practice as research. The course is an introduction to a way of working that continually asks questions without seeking answers or solutions. This method has been developed through mayfield's ongoing art/life/movement project, Improvising While Black or IWB.  For this course, the movement
Dance

Movement Practice: A Spell for Utopia — DAN2140.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 2
Can Utopia be a practice instead of a destination? Is a new world possible if we learn to create our own language as an incantation for our new future bodies? During this course we will delve into the relationship of language and somatic states and how our embodied presence is directly related to how we perceive the  world. How we perceive the world is
Dance Drama

Movement Practice: Activating the Animal Body — DAN4335.01) (cancelled

Spring 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This class cultivates a movement ritual to engage the mind in accessing the strong, animal body. Each class actively engages three avenues for dancing: 1) Movement Patterns – by employing precise, sensorial exercises that lead through developmental movement patterns to observe habits, test new pathways, and re-organize coordination. These are based on Bartenieff fundamentals,
Dance

Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: dai jian (mfa teaching fellow, supervised by terry creach)
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This advanced movement class will develop from simple skeletal mobility sequences to expansive movement forms. The warm-up will examine the joints and how their range of motion relates to alignment, readiness to move, and articulation. These principles will then become the foundation for traveling sequences and longer movement phrases. Distinguishing between tempo, rhythm, and
Dance

Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
This advanced movement practice will begin slowly through utilizing alignment exercises, scores, improvisation and set phrase material. We will investigate the interconnections of fascial tissue and energetic pathways, and explore different somatic approaches. We will practice using a healthy range of motion, shifts of weight, changes of direction, and dynamic fluctuations of
Dance

Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This advanced level movement practice is designed for students with prior experience in dance technique. In this class, we will hone in on the importance of balancing controlled and spontaneous action as well as internal and external movement through using a series of improvisational, compositional, writing and drawing practices. We will be also learning longer and more complex
Dance

Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 2
***Time Change*** This advanced movement class addresses the constantly changing body and its potential by expanding receptivity to detail, connections, and logic. The warm-up will examine the joints and how their range of motion relates to alignment, readiness to move, and articulation. We will approach movement from a place of ease and space, especially when applying vigor
Dance