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Movement Practice: Contact Improvisation — DAN2210.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: felice wolfzahn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Contact improvisation is a duet movement form. Two people move together, playing in physical dialogue, communicating through the language of touch, momentum, and weight. In these classes we will explore some simple solo and duet skills such as rolling, falling, balance, counterbalance, jumping, weight sharing, spirals, and tuning to our sensory input. We will work with an
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Movement Practice: Contact Improvisation Advanced — DAN4360.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
The wide culture of Contact Improvisation includes a variety of somatic practices intended to empower the dancer to be able to sense their surroundings and respond to them efficiently and creatively. Surroundings may be everything inside us and around us including other bodies, the floor/ground/ earth, nature, objects and space.  This course will build on students'
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Movement Practice: Contact Improvisation and Performative Presence — DAN4182.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
We each have the desire to be seen and understood and to be accepted for our unique expression. This practice is for any dancer/mover/creative mind-body interested in exploring dance and performance as a way to investigate and enhance presence and self-worth. In this class, we will support creating and composing solos on the spot, group scores and many possibilities in
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Movement Practice: Contemplative Action — DAN2429.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 1

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.

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Movement Practice: Dreamtime into Daytime — DAN2020.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
Wake up your body and mind through a series of moving meditations and exercises using QiGong, the breath, visualizations, and touch that will stimulate the body’s 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.  Using QiGong as the foundation, we will also explore
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Movement Practice: Foraging from Within: From Meditation to Movement — DAN4293.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
In this class we will experience the discipline of practicing simplicity. Together we will cultivate a morning ritual that leads from meditation practice into movement. Commitment, discipline and active participation are essential in this course. Students are expected to do additional reading and practice outside of class. 1st 7 weeks: remote; 2nd 7 weeks: hybrid w
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Movement Practice: Growing a body like a plant — DAN2014.01) (course description updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: luciana achugar, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
This course is a dance class as a ritual for creating a deeper relationship to our bodies and a practice of “growing” our bodies organically from the process of tending to its needs for more strength, mobility, ability and connection between all its parts and the ground and space, This class is also a way to learn to better use our bodies in everyday life and when exercising
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Movement Practice: Intermediate Ballet — DAN4217.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Daniel Roberts
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Ballet has a large presence in the field of contemporary dance, predominantly as a means of training, but also, as a point of reference for 300 years of western dance. This class will focus on classical forms and contemporary uses of ballet in dance, and will address technical function, aesthetics, placement, and virtuosity, all within the ballet vocabulary. The structure will
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Movement Practice: Intermediate Contact Improvisation — DAN4118.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Felice Wolfzahn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
For those with prior technique and/or improvisation experience. In this duet form, we communicate through the language of touch, momentum, and weight. We will explore simple solo and duet skills such as rolling, falling, balance, counterbalance, jumping, weight sharing, spirals, and tuning to our sensory input. We work with an emphasis on breath, alignment, and releasing excess
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Movement Practice: Intermediate Contact Improvisation — DAN4118.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: felice wolfzahn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
For those with prior technique and/or improvisation experience. In this duet form, we communicate through the language of touch, momentum, and weight. We will explore simple solo and duet skills such as rolling, falling, balance, counterbalance, jumping, weight sharing, spirals, and tuning to our sensory input. We work with an emphasis on breath, alignment, and releasing excess
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Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4314.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Daniel Roberts
Credits: 2
This class will be based in the technique developed by Merce Cunningham for the purposes of his choreographic work, and address the articulations of the spine, codified exercises, complex foot/leg combinations, and jump training.  The Cunningham Technique is known for its ability to strengthen the dancer's individual awareness of space.  The class aims to enhance the
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Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4314.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Daniel Roberts
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This class will be based in the technique developed by Merce Cunningham for the purposes of his choreographic work, and address the articulations of the spine, codified exercises, complex foot/leg combinations, and jump training. The Cunningham Technique is known for its ability to strengthen the dancer's individual awareness of space. The class aims to enhance the dancer's
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Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4314.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: samuel wentz (mfa teaching fellow, supervised by terry creach)
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This intermediate level movement practice is designed for students with prior dance technique training. Each class will develop from simple mobility sequences to expansive movement forms. The warm‐up will examine the joints and how their range of motion relates to proper alignment, readiness to move and articulation. These principles will then become the foundation for
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Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4236.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 2
This intermediate 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,
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Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4236.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 2
This intermediate 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
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Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Samuel Wentz (MFA Teaching Fellow, supervised by Terry Creach)
Credits: 2
This intermediate level movement practice is designed for students with prior dance technique training. Each class will develop from simple mobility sequences to expansive movement forms. The warmup will examine the joints and how their range of motion relates to proper alignment, readiness to move and articulation. These principles will then become the foundation for traveling
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Movement Practice: Intermediate-Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4148.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 2
This intermediate-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 learning longer and more
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Movement Practice: Intermediate-Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4148.01

Spring 2018
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 intermediate-advanced movement class will develop from simple skeletal mobility sequences to
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Movement Practice: Intermediate-Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4148.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Russell Stuart Lilie
Credits: 2
In this Intermediate-Advanced movement class, we will work on establishing a day-to-day practice of evaluating and fine-tuning our dancing bodies through guided self-examination and peer-to-peer feedback. At the core of developing our practice, we will be learning to accomplish the same movement with ever changing bodies and minds. We will focus on anatomical economy by
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Movement Practice: Intermediate-Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01) (cancelled

Spring 2022
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 2
This intermediate-advanced level movement practice is designed for students with prior dance experience. In this class, we will hone in on the importance of balancing controlled and spontaneous action as well as internal and external movement. We will be learning longer and more complex movement phrases that are structured with principles from Water Body Movement (“Body is a
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Movement Practice: Intermediate-Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4148.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 2
In this intermediate-advanced level course, we will focus on tapping into the subtle connections in the body. We will be using improvisational scores and somatic exercises to hone these connections and increase self-awareness. Gentle focus can be used to achieve high intensity movement. Tracking what we are doing as we do it--we will acknowledge the nervous system’s role in our
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Movement Practice: Intermediate-Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4148.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Russell Lilie
Credits: 2
In this Intermediate-Advanced movement class, we will work on establishing a day-to-day practice of evaluating and fine-tuning our dancing bodies through guided self-examination and peer-to-peer feedback. At the core of developing our practice, we will be learning to accomplish the same movement with ever changing bodies and minds. We will focus on anatomical economy by
Dance

Movement Practice: Intermediate-Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4148.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Mina Nishimura, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
This intermediate-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
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