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Performance Project: Adaptable Score — DAN4679.02; section 2

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
With new movement material crafted by both the instructor and the participants, we will delve into multiple variations of the phrases made, exploring the qualities, inherent technical challenges, spatial use, and timing.   The final score will weave the developed phrase material with light, integrating both formal structural concerns and liquid interpretation. The new

Performance Project: Adaptable Score — DAN4679.01) (cancelled

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
With new movement material crafted around the movement tendencies of each of the participants, we will delve into multiple variations of the phrases made. Throughout the term, we will be exploring movement qualities, inherent technical challenges, spatial use, and timing. We will investigate the interrelationship of movement and environment, and will use costume as an essential

Performance Project: Adaptable Score — DAN4679.01

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
With new movement material crafted around the movement tendencies of each of the participants, we will delve into multiple variations of the phrases made. Throughout the term, we will be exploring the movement qualities, inherent technical challenges, spatial use, and timing. The final score will weave the developed phrase material with light, integrating both formal

Performance Project: BRUJX — DAN4362.01

Instructor: luciana achugar, MFA Teaching Fellow
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this course we will make a dance, directed by achugar, and perform it at the end of the semester. It is for students with a deep awareness of their bodies in movement and with prior experience performing onstage and being part of a creative dance process, that are interested in being challenged as performers with a rigorous rehearsal process. This work will further explore

Performance Project: Cultivating Resilience: A Score for Movement & Light — DAN4377.01

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

Resilience deals with not only the expected but also the unexpected.  During this period of time, Dana Reitz will create a new dance work with the entire group, in sections and as a whole, that will rise from the participants. During class and outside of class, everyone will be involved in creating individual movement material and delving

Performance Project: Dancing Chavela Vargas — DAN4365.01) (cancelled 9/30/2024

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Chavela Vargas has often been called “la voz de México”. An iconoclastic figure, a publicly queer woman singing rancheras and comporting with radical artists and activists, her life is a study in refusing to submit to social norms and embracing the power of art as an act of solidarity, resistance and love. In this course, students will participate in a rehearsal process that

Performance Project: Exchange — DAN4126.01

Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this performance project, we’ll work with close encounters and with the physical puzzles that result. We’ll work individually and collectively to generate movement materials that build toward small group patterns that mix, combine, and sometimes clash. For those interested in challenging their athleticism, movement invention and negotiating skills. The new work will be

Performance Project: Hanou — DAN4122.01

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Hanou, from the language of Gurunsi, means “myself.”  This piece will be built upon the individual stories of the participants who will contribute not only fragments of their own histories but also spatial scenarios. The collected scenarios will form the base of the larger structure that will weave them into an interconnected fabric of movement, sound and space.  The

Performance Project: Liminality Portal; Dancing Within and Beyond the Frame — DAN4421.01

Instructor: Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching Fellow
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this creative process lab, we will be developing dance and site responsive movement scores to be performed live and in relation to video. During the first seven weeks, we will be cultivating/creating these scores based on rigorous somatic investigation and dance practice, both within the studio and within specific predetermined locations. Throughout this process, students

Performance Project: Living Sculpture — DAN4237.01

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this performance project, we will be investigating how to build content and how to look at dance as a living sculpture. Multiple locations will be chosen for multiple new sculptures. We will use the architectural elements of a space to inform the building of our content. Each “living structure” will be made in only a few weeks and made only to exist in that specific location

Performance Project: Natural State of Error — DAN4225.01

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this performance project, we will build on the body knowledge of each participant. We will explore the nuance and precision of impulses and will inhibit them when necessary. Keenly aware of our relationship to space and each other, we can intuit others’ actions just as inanimate bodies might repel and attract in a magnetic field. Attunement at the level of reflex, habit, and

Performance Project: Natural State of Error — DAN2125.01

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this performance project, we will build on the body knowledge of each participant. We will explore the nuance and precision of impulses and will inhibit them when necessary. Keenly aware of our relationship to space and each other, we can intuit others’ actions just as inanimate bodies might repel and attract in a magnetic field. Attunement at the level of reflex, habit, and

Performance Project: New Territory / Place — DAN4369.01

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this course we will create a new dance project together. The ensemble work will allow participants to engage in a rigorous approach to the practice of performing. Each performer is invited to bring what they know with them to the project, yet leave room for each to express a complex and indefinable range of experience through the humor, intelligence and emotional engagement

Performance Project: Not Knowing — DAN4108.01

Instructor: Jian Dai (MFA Teaching Fellow, supervised by Terry Creach Dana Reitz)
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
I know I don’t know what I know or don’t know. I start with the passion to make something. I don’t know what it will be.  I like the process of learning and searching, understanding myself more as I work through it. Who am I? What do I want? What makes me interested? What can I make? Who are these people who work with me? Starting from scratch, without a particular image

Performance Project: Object as a Mirror — DAN4123.01

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this dance project, we will investigate how to apply the body as both tool and material. We will observe our responses to and projections upon multiple objects, combining our personal understandings with the generally held definitions of those objects. Our practice will be to deconstruct these findings and transfer them to physical actions. Then, these will be woven into a

Performance Project: ONE-ish — DAN4033.01

Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 2

In this performance project, we will create a new original work in which a single “figure” is composed collectively by all participants. Like an AI-generated image built from multiple faces, this piece emerges through layering—of movement, personal text, and presence—into a shared body.

Performance Project: Overly Engineered — DAN2133.01

Instructor: Stuart Shugg, MFA Teaching Fellow
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
I am interested in making dances that reveal the unique personalities of group members while they work towards achieving a particular goal. Through using improvisation and set material, we will work to accomplish simple tasks in an overly contrived fashion. As with the mechanisms found in a Rube Goldberg Machine, the multiple components will add up to a needlessly complex and

Performance Project: Pressing Face Against That Window — DAN2017.01

Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This performance project course is open to anyone who is interested in a text-based experimental performance, which may not fit in a frame of dance or theater in the traditional sense. Mina Nishimura will facilitate the creative process of making a new text-based performance, Pressing Face Against That Window [working title], written and directed by co-facilitator Kota

Performance Project: Sing-Gré — DAN4243.02

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Sing-Gré (meaning Root) will be based on Souleymane “Solo” Badolo’s current work, Yimbégré, made for Brooklyn Academy of Music. He will further explore an aspect of this major piece with students and make a new work with them. In the Mooré language, yimbégré means “beginning.” For the powerful dancer and choreographer Badolo, born in Burkina Faso and currently based in

Performance Project: The Dynamic Group — DAN4137.01

Instructor: Russell Stuart Lilie, MFA Teaching Fellow
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
How are groups identified, formed, reformed, sustained, absorbed, or disbanded? What is an individual's responsibility towards the group? How is individuality acknowledged within the group? How do individuals handle becoming inseparable from the group? In this project, we will investigate these questions though movement and discussion. We will work in groups, shifting

Performance Project: Triptych — DAN4672.01

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this performance project, we will assemble personal, intimate portraits and counter-narratives which then fracture and multiply through deliberate organization. Some of the emotions are familiar, some alien. Throughout the creative process, what is revealed is a dedication to observation and the search for the solutions in this improbable attempt to exist together. The

Performance Project: Why Dance Now? — DAN4141.01

Instructor: Rebecca Brooks, MFA Teaching Fellow
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Throughout this creative process we will cultivate mindful embodiment as a radical political act. Rebecca Brooks will create a new performance work built on the premise that deep somatic engagement vastly affects us both individually and collectively. How can dancing prepare us to propagate change, to stay in action no matter what, to sharpen our awareness to our environment

Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East — MET4103.01

Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This course will explore the construction and experience of gender and sexuality in the Middle East through a performative lens. Drawing on research in ethnomusicology, queer and gender studies, anthropology and Middle Eastern history, the course will examine performance (music, dance, theater, poetry and more) as a process of representation, assertion, and sometimes