DANC 240/Imaginative Thinking, Moving, and Crafting I

Instructor :  Donna Faye Burchfield

Course Objectives

to create a time and space for discussion of creative process

to read, view, research and discuss how artists have made work, problem solved, discovered motivations, explored intent and directions

to experiment with different processes for making performance work

to investigate how performance work relates to time and space

to gain a better understanding of personal style vs. technique

to compose and improvise

to explore how art can (and does) serve as a window on culture and society

to begin to investigate how we "read" performance and how we discuss what we "see"

Required Texts

Six Memos for the Next Millennium. Italo Calvino

Art on My Mind. bell hooks

Wonder, The Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences. Phillip Fisher

Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art. edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz.

DANC 340/Imaginative Thinking, Moving, and Crafting II

Instructor :  Donna Faye Burchfield

This course examines dance as one of the many paths of expression for artists. We will make work both in the studio and on our own, we will show our work and discuss what we see and experience.  We will discuss the work of artists today and begin to frame our understanding of how a work of art is created, viewed, positioned in a society and discussed.

Course Objectives

To make work.

To expand one's personal creative vocabulary by enhancing awareness.

To broaden one's awareness of both traditional and non-traditional resources for creating work.

To question.

To develop skills for looking and talking about the work we investigate.

To look at current trends/ideas prevalent in the work of today's artist and discover how/if they inform our work.

To consider new paths of creative work.

To imagine.

Required Texts

The Timeless Way of Building. Christopher Alexander

our bodies are not our own. CoCo Fusco

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