CDP: Senior Thesis Workshop
Course Description
Summary
This course is designed to be the culmination of the BFA Dance Lab program. Critical Dance Processes: Senior Thesis Workshop supports projects emerging from research in and through the study of dance and results in the public sharing of a thesis work. Each student will propose a project, develop goals and objectives for the semester, and move their work through all stages of production and presentation. Modes of practicing, situating and expressing thesis project research will be mobilized and extended through ongoing critical dialogue and collective feedback. We will attend, in practice, to the urgent questions facing our creative work, our lives and the field of dance and performance. Writing will be positioned as a vital practice embedded within processes of research, creation and the sharing of work. Throughout the semester, each student will develop virtual platforms/websites that will function as spaces to organize and share out research practices, writing and documentation of thesis projects.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will develop and activate research questions and methodologies to be used in processes of making, writing about and documenting creative work.
- Students will lead and participate in critical feedback sessions during the development, revising, and actualizing of their work and the work of others.
- Students will design and construct a project for public presentation, directing the process through all stages of production.
- Students will refine how their work as a dance artist fits into larger conversations in dance and culture through active engagement in assignments and dialogue.
Prerequisites
Enrollment in BFA Dance program required
Please contact the faculty member : jessezaritt@bennington.edu