Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0254 - Intermediate Dance Composition: Collaborative Dance Making Process

Building on foundational principles of dance composition, students in this course will be invited to apply those principles to collaborative group choreographic processes. The studio will be our laboratory as we individually and collectively examine kinesthetic and aesthetic impulse, and the ways group process reconciles, expands, and challenges those. Employing design and chance methods, we will attend to the negotiations engendered by relations between makers, performers, audiences, communities, identities, and place as well as the inherent societal implications of making art of, for, and by the expressive body in space and time. Together, members of the class will work to support one another in developing a nurturing space for curious investigation, boundary expanding rigor, generous feedback, and playful discovery. Choreographic works that emerge from this semester-long process will be shared informally at the end of the semester and may be included in Hampshire's Winter Dance Concert (S23). Keywords: performance, art-making, embodiment, movement, choreography.

Field trip fee: $30-$50 to attend performances throughout the semester. Enrollment is open to all, but prior experience with dance, performance, and/or collaboration is strongly suggested. In this course students should expect to spend 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.