Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0279 - Dance Improvisation: Practice and Performance

In this course, students will immerse in and craft improvisational approaches to movement and performance-developing both a training ground and performance troupe. Together, training in ensemble, solo, and partner work, we will develop skills for group listening, responding to architecture and environment, working with sound and music, and dancing from sensation and perception. There will be opportunities for performance throughout the semester. We will craft performance structures (scores) and improvisational choreographies through which we can enter the unknown or "lesser known" territory of improvisational choice-making on stage. This course will build on previous experience of dance and dance-making and also welcomes performing artists with any background or those with a desire to jump into an exploration of improvisation and performance.

Independent Work Field trip fee: $20. Prerequisite: one or more previous courses in dance, theater, or performance, improvisation practice and making, and/or related experience. Students can generally expect to spend 6 to 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.