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 theatrical 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 an ever changing and accumulating archive of artists, poets, scholars and activists to help deepen and expand our thinking/making, offering overlapping, potentially conflicting yet supportive 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