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Movement Practice: Material for the Spine — DAN2168.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This introductory class is based on the principles and forms in “Material for the Spine” developed by dance artist Steve Paxton. Students will be investigating basic anatomy and sensory exploration. Specific exercises, puzzles, and forms are repeated each class, providing a way to measure new sensations. These sensations can then offer instructions/movement material for
Dance

Movement Practice: Morning Chi, Waking Up the Body — DAN2015.01) (new time as of 2/6/2023

Spring 2023
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 2
Wake up your body and mind through a series of moving meditations and stretches using QiGong, the breath, visualizations, and touch that will stimulate the meridian system and activate a relaxed focus for the day. We will soften pathways in the body with circles, spirals, figure eights and undulating waveforms. QiGong theory, principles and cosmology will be covered with a
Dance

Movement Practice: Moving from the Spine — DAN2152.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Yanan Yu, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
Using principles from Chinese movement practice, we will focus on the 3-dimensional spiraling form of the body in the space. The class will emphasize the breath and its connections to the mechanics of the spine, which is the main source of the fluid movements that extend throughout the body. We will work on weight shifting and cycling dynamic movement, integrating the principle
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Movement Practice: Moving from the Spine — DAN2152.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Yanan Yu, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
Using principles from Chinese movement practice, we will focus on the 3-dimensional spiraling form of the body in the space. The class will emphasize the breath and its connections to the mechanics of the spine, which is the main source of the fluid movements that extend throughout the body. We will work on weight shifting and cycling dynamic movement, integrating the principle
Dance

Movement Practice: Moving Out - Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2212.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: terry creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For those looking for a basic but intense movement class. We will begin with a slow warm-up focused on anatomical structures, muscular systems and basic alignment principles, but then progress to vigorous, rhythmic movement patterns. We will work to strengthen, stretch and articulate the body through longer movement phrases, focused on weight shifting, changes of direction, and
Dance

Movement Practice: Moving Out-Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2212.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Terry Creach
Credits: 2
For those looking for a basic but intense movement class. We will begin with a slow warm-up focused on anatomical structures, muscular systems and basic alignment principles, but then progress to vigorous, rhythmic movement patterns. We will work to strengthen, stretch and articulate the body through longer movement phrases, focused on weight shifting, changes of direction, and
Dance

Movement Practice: Moving Out–Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2212.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For those looking for a basic but intense movement class. We will begin with a slow warm-up focused on anatomical structures, muscular systems and basic alignment principles, but then progress to vigorous, rhythmic movement patterns. We will work to strengthen, stretch and articulate the body through longer movement phrases, focused on weight shifting, changes of direction, and
Dance

Movement Practice: Non-Stop Moving — DAN2358.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 1
When I first started studying butoh at the age of 18, I had a desire to dance anytime and anywhere. On a subway on my way to the dance studio, I practiced my stillness and internal dance without being noticed by anyone. Since then, I believe that dance can happen in any situation and environment by taking various different forms throughout our daily lives. In this class, as
Dance

Movement Practice: Orbiting the self and community — DAN2260.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 1
The course is for students with an intermediate level of experience with dance. Parijat Desai will share vocabularies she is developing for her project How Do I Become WE, a participatory performance ritual. She will offer movement practices to connect with land, individual somatic awareness, and community. Parijat pulls from modes she has inherited, trained in, or aspired
Dance

Movement Practice: Partnering — DAN2179.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Russell Stuart Lilie, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
In this class we will move in and out of physical contact with other dancers and objects. As a foundation for the partnering, we will work on proprioception, an awareness of one’s own body, and how this is communicated to a partner. In turn, each person needs to develop skills in receiving information from the partner, without necessarily seeing them. With others, we will
Dance

Movement Practice: Partnering — DAN2179.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Stuart Shugg, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
Throughout this course, we will work with simple partnering exercises that focus on the sense of touch, the sharing of weight, and the play of counterbalancing. Within each class, after an initial warm-up, we will progress to larger more complex forms and lifts. It is easier to move someone already in motion. By taking our partners off center, we are destabilizing and then
Dance

Movement Practice: Partnering — DAN2179.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Stuart Shugg, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
Throughout this course, we will work with simple partnering exercises that focus on the sense of touch, the sharing of weight, and the play of counterbalancing. Within each class, after an initial warm-up, we will progress to larger more complex forms and lifts. It is easier to move someone already in motion. By taking our partners off center, we are destabilizing and then
Dance

Movement Practice: Puppance, an Advanced Movement Study of Puppetry and Dance — DAN4246.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Puppance is an advanced movement practice class that mobilizes the interrelationships between the human body, objects, and puppets. We will examine the broad range of how these forms overlap through the physical practices of dancing, building puppets, and creating scores based on our research. In dance we often talk about how “the space moves us.”  In this class, we will
Dance

Movement Practice: Sénémali - Traditional West African Dance I — DAN2413.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
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
Dance

Movement Practice: Sénémali - Traditional West African Dance II — DAN4487.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
For students with some dance background, this version of Sénémali is taught at a more advanced level. 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
Dance

Movement Practice: Sénémali I- Drumming & Dancing — DAN2423.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Kaolack Ndiaye
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 4

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.

Black Studies Dance Composition Musical Performance

Movement Practice: Spiraling around... — DAN2364.01) (cancelled 10/7/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 2
In this course we will explore spiraling in and out of the floor. This is a rigorous movement class that focuses on traveling through space, using the spirals embedded in the body and exploring how these will help us to separate from the floor and come back to it. We will create movement sequences and phrases sourced from postmodern dance techniques and Flying Low (movement

Movement Practice: Spiraling around... — DAN4501.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 2
In this course we will explore spiraling in and out of the floor. This is a rigorous movement class that focuses on traveling through space, using the spirals embedded in the body and exploring how these will help us to separate from the floor and come back to it. We will create movement sequences and phrases sourced from postmodern dance techniques and Flying Low (movement
Dance

Movement Practice: The Body Speaking — DAN2352.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 2
This course integrates various methods of speaking and sounding into our dance and movement practice. Employing multiple improvisational structures, we will access the healing, expressive and artistic possibilities of sound and language as an extension of the body. Additionally, we will look at the work of contemporary artists who engage with language and body-generated
Dance

Movement Practice: The Gentle Warrior — DAN2357.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Through direct personal experience, students will gain a deeper understanding of the body in motion. We will engage in movement research from a multitude of improvisational, somatic, dance and movement approaches; will delve into using floor patterns and scores for sensing and tracking the body while moving; will discover alliance with breath, floor, imagination, and
Dance

Movement Practice: The Phenomenal State of Permeability — DAN4153.01) (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Maura Gahan
Credits: 2
This class, “The Phenomenal State of Permeability” (as coined by Margit Galanter), is a practice of engaging with the senses -- vision, touch, sound, and smell -- to compose movement, objects and space. ‘Warming ups’ will be offered followed by verbal “calls” and “scores” — primarily sourced, but not limited to, Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Scores—as a way of measuring, revealing, and
Dance