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Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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
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Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Jian Dai (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 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
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Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Mina Nishimura, MFA Teaching Fellow
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 and compositional practices. We will be learning longer and complex movement phrases that are
Dance

Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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.  We will hone in on the
Dance

Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kota Yamazaki
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

Spring 2017
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 2
We will be inventing the new body every day by expanding the receptivity to detail, connections, logic and its potential; working from the place of ease and space, especially when applying vigor and attack; and working from the intelligence of the bones, the guts, and the skin. This advanced movement class will develop from simple skeletal mobility sequences to expansive
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Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Stuart Shugg, MFA Teaching Fellow
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. We will hone in on the importance of
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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

Spring 2019
Instructor: Hilary Clark
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 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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. We will explore release and abandon to gravity as a means to move, throwing and catching our bodies in space. Working towards ease and
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Movement Practice: Advanced Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4351.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Samuel Wentz
Credits: 2
This advanced intermediate course is designed for students who have already taken intermediate level technique and are ready to tackle more complex forms. The class will begin with a warm up that is based on grounding, locating, and mobilizing all of our parts. We will then put these new found tools to use in executing large moving phrases that will simplify and clarify as well
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Movement Practice: Advanced Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4351.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Samuel Wentz (MFA Teaching Fellow, supervised by Terry Creach)
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This advanced intermediate course is designed for students who have already taken intermediate level technique and are ready to tackle more complex forms. The class will begin with a warm up that is based on grounding, locating, and mobilizing all of our parts. We will then put these new found tools to use in executing large moving phrases that will simplify and clarify as well
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Movement Practice: Advanced-Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4351.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Yanan Yu, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
This advanced intermediate course is designed for students who have already taken intermediate level technique and are ready to tackle more complex forms. The class will begin with a warm-up that is based on grounding, locating, and mobilizing all of our parts. We will then put these newfound tools to use in executing large moving phrases that will simplify and clarify as well
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Movement Practice: Advanced-Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4351.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This advanced intermediate course is designed for students who have already taken intermediate level technique and are ready to tackle more complex forms.  The class will begin with a warm up that involves discovering movement within our joints and mobilizing our physical structures. Using simple partnering exercises, we will explore shifts of weight, alignment and
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Movement Practice: Advanced-Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4351.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This advanced intermediate course is designed for students who have already taken intermediate level technique and are ready to tackle more complex forms. The class will begin with a warm up that is based on grounding, locating, and mobilizing all of our parts. We will then put these new found tools to use in executing large moving phrases that will simplify and clarify as well
Dance

Movement Practice: Ballet Anarchy — DAN4181.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 2
This course is designed for students who have some ballet experience and are familiar with basic ballet terms and movement vocabulary. While following a basic structure and flow of 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, develop or break
Dance

Movement Practice: Basic Gymnastic Floor Exercise — DAN2167.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Terry Creach
Credits: 1
For those seeking a basic but athletic movement practice. We will warm-up with stretching/strengthening poses from yoga and apply the alignment principles to rolls, handstands, and cartwheels in order to create movement phrases and build gymnastic dance sequences. We will work progressively to develop the strength and body awareness necessary for safe inversions and full-bodied
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Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2121.02; section 2

Fall 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This beginning dance technique class requires no previous dance training. We will investigate and explore our bodies as tools for making work. The warm up will consist of movement exercises that focus on the joints, bones, muscles, and energetic pathways. This initial work will develop into larger phrase material that emphasizes rhythm, moves through space and modulates
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Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2121.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Rebecca Brooks, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
This beginning dance technique course requires no previous dance training. We will begin with a warm-up focusing on our body’s relationship to gravity and basic alignment principles, and we will progress to more spacious movement pathways, patterns and scores. We will pay special attention to coordination, drawing on systems such as Ideokinesis, Chi Kung (Qi Gong), yoga, and
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Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2121.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 2
This basic movement class will develop and explore each student’s own curiosity and ability to create a constantly evolving way of becoming one’s own teacher. The class will serve as a laboratory where we will observe forms, strengths, weaknesses, habits, and patterns; a variety of movement situations will help emphasize awareness, expand self-perception, and focus on our
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Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2214.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Samuel Wentz (MFA Teaching Fellow, supervised by Terry Creach)
Credits: 2
***Time Change Description Change*** This beginning dance technique class requires no previous dance training. We will investigate and explore our bodies as tools for making work. The warm up will consist of movement exercises that focus on the joints, bones, muscles, and energetic pathways. This initial work will develop into larger phrase material that emphasizes rhythm,
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Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2121.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This beginning dance technique requires no previous dance training. We will investigate and explore how the structure of our bodies can move, in order to discover more possibilities of how we can dance. The warm up will consist of movement exercises, for practice alone and with partners, which will focus on the joints, bones, muscles, and sequential flow. This initial
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