All

Course System Home Course Listing All

Select Filters and then click Apply to load new results

Areas of Study
Course Day & Time(s)
Course Level
Credits
Course Duration
Showing 25 Results of 7796

Movement Practice: Moving from the Spine — DAN2152.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Yanan Yu, MFA Teaching Fellow
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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: Stretching and Conditioning — DAN2428.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 2

This course is open to students at all levels of experience with body conditioning and/or dance. Class sessions will be approached as a form of exercise as well as a way to recover from injuries, misuse, excess or lack of physical activity. Incorporating tools and exercises from various physical practice modalities, including yoga,

Dance

Movement Practice: The Body Speaking — DAN2352.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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

Movement Practice: The Principles of Allongé — DAN2279.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This dance class examines the principles of allongé in the dancing body. Allongé is the French adjective used to describe a “position” that is stretched or made longer. Otherwise known as ‘qi’, extension or pointing, allongé allows energy to move from the center of mass (in the pelvis) out through the spine, tail and limbs, extending into the distance (with the imagination) and
Dance

Movement Practice: Yoga, Gymnastics and Dance — DAN2213.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
For students interested in "moving-through" or flowing yoga asanas informed by attention to alignment, along with basic gymnastic floor-exercise skills that deal with momentum and more complex coordinated actions. We will warm-up with the stretching/strengthening poses and sequences from yoga and apply the alignment principles to rolls, handstands, and cartwheels in order to
Unknown

Movement Practice: Yoga, Gymnastics, and Dance — DAN2213.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
For students interested in "moving-through" or flowing yoga asanas informed by attention to alignment, along with basic gymnastic floor-exercise skills that deal with momentum and more complex coordinated actions. We will warm-up with the stretching/strengthening poses and sequences from yoga and apply the alignment principles to rolls, handstands, and cartwheels in order to
Dance