AIP: Junior Choreography Workshop
Course Description
Summary
Actions In Practice: Junior Choreography Workshop positions creative research as a multifaceted practice that includes dancing, reading, writing, drawing, sound-making and multi-disciplinary design. The course weaves choreographic practice and group study in a variety of collaborative, experimental and performative configurations.
Time in class will be devoted to combinations of lectures, workshops, exercises, readings, discussions, viewings, listening sessions and individual/group choreographic experiments. Our sessions will also include the study of a responsive and accumulating archive of artists, poets, scholars and activists including Octavia Butler, Laurie Carlos, Blondell Cummings, June Jordan, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jennifer Harge, Bekezela Mguni and the Black Unicorn Library, Angie Pittman, Jo Stewart, and Marlies Yearby, in order to support grounding our thinking/making and offering overlapping, potentially conflicting yet interconnected examples of practice capable of refocusing and enlivening our perspectives.
The course culminates in public sharings of student choreographic works.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to identify and create frameworks to expand relationships between dance, practice and theory.
- Students will be able to produce questions that stimulate and mobilize research methodologies.
- Students will be able to engage critical discourse, reflection and feedback as part of creative practice.
- Students will be able to explore different modes of presenting and exchanging ideas within the studio and through performative sharings.
Prerequisites
Previous dance composition experience required.
Please contact the faculty member : jasminehearn@bennington.edu
Cross List
- Black Studies