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Advanced Garment Construction — DRA4406.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

This course is for students who have experience sewing and patternmaking with a firm commitment to serious work in the costume studio. Students will work on a self-directed project in consultation with the instructor. The goal is to improve construction skills from patternmaking to finishing, and to deepen their overall sewing knowledge.

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Advanced Guitar: Folk Styles — MIN4361.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

Individual or small group lessons of advanced study on guitar. Continued studies from Intermediate Guitar. Advanced study in fret-board harmony and theory, playing in different tunings, increase chord vocabulary and repertoire, emphasis on finger picking styles.

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Advanced Guitar: Folk Styles — MIN4361.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

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Advanced Improvisation and Partnering — DAN4292.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Dai Jian

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

This class takes improvisation as an exploration of the present moment without expectation or preconceived purpose; improvisation is seen as the exercise of listening, observing, and trusting in one’s instincts and in the principles of nature. We will explore the use of improvisation in performance, showing each other often, to develop these particular performance skills.

Dance

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers Musicians — DAN4673.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Days & Time:

Credits: 1

This advanced course focuses on work in the performance of improvisation. For dancers, special attention is given to the development of individual movement vocabularies, pattern recognition and the exploration of forms and structures. Dancers are expected to have experience with improvisation in performance and are asked to develop a structure for the group. This class

Dance

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4673.02

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

This class is for advanced dance improvisers who will collaborate with musicians in creating ensemble forms for the performance of improvisation. We will meet once a week with musicians and will also collaborate with Thorsten Dennerline's Printmaking class to create a performance at the end of the term. Students will learn a Solo Practice and an Ensemble practice in

Dance Music Visual Arts

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4361.02) (cancelled 2/26/2024

Spring 2024

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Days & Time:

Credits: 1

This class is for advanced dance improvisers who will collaborate with musicians in creating ensemble forms for the performance of improvisation. We will meet once a week with musicians to create a performance at the end of the term. Students will learn a Solo Practice and an Ensemble practice in improvisation techniques. Development of a movement vocabulary, pattern

Dance Music

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4673.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Dance

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4361.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

This class will be co-taught by Dance Faculty from the BFA and BA Dance program and is open to both groups of dance students as well as music students. This class is for students who have had training in improvisational practices. Students will explore and perform structures, paying attention to pattern recognition, arcs of development and the building of gestural, sonic,

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Advanced Improvisation Ensemble of Dancers and Musicians — MPF4357.01) (cancelled

Fall 2021

Instructor: Joseph Alpar

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Credits: 2

This class is for advanced musicians and dancers who have had some improvisation experience. We will work on Solo Practice and Ensemble Practices. Attention will be focused on the development of sound and movement vocabulary, pattern recognition, the arc of compositional forms and polyrhythms. Musicians and dancers will engage in deep listening, exchange of sonic and movement

Dance Music

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble of Dancers and Musicians — DAN4673.01) (cancelled

Fall 2021

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

This class is for advanced dancers and musicians who have had some improvisation experience. We will work on Solo Practice and Ensemble Practices. Attention will be focused on the development of sound and movement vocabulary, pattern recognition, the arc of compositional forms and polyrhythms. Musicians and dancers will engage in deep listening, exchange of sonic and movement

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Advanced Improvisation Ensemble of Dancers and Musicians — DAN4673.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati Michael Wimberly

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

This course is for dancers and musicians to work on the performance of improvisation. This section is for dancers who will focus on developing an original movement vocabulary, understand pattern recognition and learn a solo and ensemble practice in emergent forms. Once a week, the dancers will have a class with musicians and will collaborate on improvisational structures.

Dance

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble of Dancers and Musicians — MPF4357.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This course focuses on work in the performance of improvisation. For dancers, special attention is given to the development of individual movement vocabularies, group ensemble structures, and the exploration of emergent forms. For musicians, attention is given to creating rhythms and sonorities which can then be manipulated and developed while interacting with dancers in the

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Advanced Improvisation for an Age of Uncertainty — APA4212.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-4:00pm

Credits: 2

This is an advanced improvisation class for students from all disciplines. We will learn the concepts of complexity and advance our skills in pattern recognition, self-organization, emergent structuring, and development of movement, verbal, visual and design vocabularies. Collaborative processes will be explored to further different forms of creative practices, both to

Advancement of Public Action

Advanced Improvisation: Being in relationship with all there is — DAN4367.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Dana Reitz

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

In this course we will engage with various approaches and techniques that support students in the development of their improvisation and performance practices, expanding and deepening their experience of both. This will encourage a letting go of the attachment we have to engrained movement patterns and preconceived ideas of what our dance vocabulary can/should include. In turn,

Dance

Advanced Improvisation: Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen

Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm

Credits: 4

This course is an in-depth exploration of improvised comedy scene work, with a central focus on finding and playing “Game.” Game is loosely defined as a pattern of unusual behavior that breaks from the pattern of your everyday life. In other words, Game is what's funny about your scene.

To play Game in a long-form scene, you’ll learn to answer three key questions:

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Advanced Improvisation: Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01

Spring 2027

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen

Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm

Credits: 4

To play Game in a long-form scene, you’ll learn to answer three key questions:

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Advanced Improvisation: Scene Work — DRA4386.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

In this 7-week course, we will explore different approaches to improvised scene work with an emphasis on methods that exist outside the Upright Citizens Brigade paradigm. These include more Chicago-style improv exercises and techniques, with less emphasis on 'Game', and more of a focus on relationship and character. What time we do spend on 'Game' will be with respect to 'group

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Advanced Improvisation: Scene Work — DRA4386.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen

Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm

Credits: 2

In this 7-week course, we’ll explore a variety of approaches to improvised scene work, focusing on techniques beyond the Upright Citizens Brigade paradigm. Emphasizing Chicago-style improv, we’ll shift away from a strict ‘Game’ focus and instead prioritize relationship and character.

Get ready to jump in, take risks, and perform hundreds of scenes as you sharpen your

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Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Advanced Improvisation: GOTS is an in-depth study of improvised comedy scene work. The central theme of this course is finding and playing “Game.” In order to find a Game in a long form improvised scene, you typically need to be able to answer three questions: What is the situation? What is the first unusual thing? If this is true, then what else is true? We’ll

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Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

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Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Advanced Improvisation is an in-depth study of improvised comedy scene work. The central theme of this course is finding and playing "Game." In order to find a Game in a long form improvised scene, you typically need to be able to answer three questions: What is the situation? What is the first unusual thing? If this is true, then what else is true. We'll be

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Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Advanced Improvisation is an in-depth study of improvised comedy scene work. The central theme of this course is finding and playing “Game.” In order to find a Game in a long form improvised scene, you typically need to be able to answer three questions: What is the situation? What is the first unusual thing? If this is true, then what else is true. We’ll be

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Advanced Improvisation: The Harold — DRA4392.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

In this course, we will learn how to perform 'The Harold'. The Harold is a long-form improvised form developed by Del Close. It is a collage of scenes inspired by a single suggestion which are interwoven and connected. Students, now with a solid understanding of scene work and 'Game', will come to learn the Harold structure and perform full Harolds both in class and in their

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Advanced Individual Piano Instruction — MIN4333.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Christopher Lewis

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Credits: 2

Private piano instruction. Study of instrumental technique and musical interpretation of classical repertoire. Requirements: attendance at weekly lessons; participation in Music Workshop; performance at end-of-term recital. Students accepted by audition.

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