Choreography: Making Dances

4-0-8 units · Graduate

Laboratory-style class explores and invents techniques used to create dances. Students practice techniques focused on how and where to begin making a dance — sampling some of the endless ways to start a process, such as from the body, an idea, text, or a song — and then how to build up from there. Students make dances that are more than just a collection of moves, but events that do something, say something, or ask something. Builds a clear understanding of how a dance has an arc, a clear beginning, middle, and end, so that by doing it or watching it, both participants and audience end up somewhere new. Develops an understating of, and facility with, a wide variety of topics used to explore, start, and generate movement, dance, and performative events involving bodies moving through space. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Enrollment limited.