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Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN2119.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Molly Lieber, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

In this basic intermediate course, we will work with imagery to help explore potential in the body. We will practice kinesthetic exercises that will help expand movement range, strength, and specificity. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the feeling of movement, deeply, and trusting it. From this we can understand how this feeling moves the body, and eventually how this

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN2119.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

For those looking for a Basic-Intermediate movement class. We begin with a slow warm-up focused on anatomical landmarks, muscular systems and basic alignment principles, but then progress to vigorous, rhythmic movement patterns and group forms. We work to strengthen, stretch, and articulate the body through longer movement phrases focused on weight shifting, changes

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN2119.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

In this basic intermediate movement class, we will begin with a slow warm up focusing on our natural desire to move, basic anatomical information, imagery and embodiment practices. Using improvisation, simple exercises and choreographed phrase material, we will explore alignment principles, a healthy range of motion, shifts of weight, changes of direction, and dynamic

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN2119.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

This beginning-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

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN2119.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Yanan Yu, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

For those looking for a basic intermediate movement class. We will begin with a slow warm-up focusing on our body’s relationship to gravity and basic alignment principles, progressing to larger and more vigorous movement patterns and forms. We will work towards developing our articulation through movement phrases focused on shifts of weight, changes of direction, and dynamic

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN2119.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Mina Nishimura, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

In this basic intermediate dance course, students are introduced to some fundamental principles of dancing by learning various movement patterns. The class also introduces the use of breath and somatic practices, which reflect some principles of Zen and Japanese somatic practices such as butoh and Water Body Movement (or Noguchi Taiso). Attention will be given to

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Technique — DAN2119.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

For those looking for a basic intermediate movement class. We will begin with a slow warm-up focusing on our body's relationship to gravity and basic alignment principles, progressing to larger more vigorous movement patterns and forms. We will work towards developing our articulation through movement phrases focused on shifts of weight, changes of direction, and dynamic

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning/Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN2002.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 2

This movement practice course will utilize exercises culled from various somatic practices as an entryway into exploring sensation and cultivating attention towards the vast amount of information already present in our bodies. These awarenesses will then be put to use by some sweet dance moves, repetitive technical exercises, improvisational prompts, set choreographic material

Dance

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

Dance

Movement Practice: Contact Improvisation — DAN2210.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Felice Wolfzahn

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 1

Dance

Movement Practice: Contact Improvisation Advanced — DAN4360.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching Fellow

Days & Time:

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'

Dance

Movement Practice: Contact Improvisation and Performative Presence — DAN4182.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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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

Dance

Movement Practice: Contemplative Action — DAN2429.01

Fall 2026

Instructor: Daria Faïn

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.

Dance

Movement Practice: Contemporary Dance using West African Dance and Daily Corporal Movements — DAN4288.01

Fall 2022

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 2

Dance

Movement Practice: Dreamtime into Daytime — DAN2020.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching Fellow

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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

Dance

Movement Practice: Foraging from Within: From Meditation to Movement — DAN4293.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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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

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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

Dance

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

Dance

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

Dance

Movement Practice: Intermediate Contact Improvisation — DAN4118.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: felice wolfzahn

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 1

Dance

Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique — Canceled

Spring 2015

Instructor: Samuel Wentz (MFA Teaching Fellow, supervised by Terry Creach)

Days & Time:

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

Dance

Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4314.01

Spring 2014

Instructor: Daniel Roberts

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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

Dance

Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4314.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Daniel Roberts

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

Dance

Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4236.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

Days & Time:

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

Dance

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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