Movement Studio III

MWF 8:50-10:20, 1:30-3:00pm,T,TH 12:30-2:30pm

Donna Faye Burchfield
Guest Artists: Nicholas Leichter, Gina Gibney, Neta Pulvermacher, Lisa Race, tba

Overview

How can this form (dance) communicate something?

Primarily a modern dance technique class for advanced students, this class will introduce and examine a number of movement concepts such as release, stillness, quickness, lightness, weight, strength and initiation.

The primary goals of this class are to discover and explore.

Attention to the role of a technique class will be questioned.  What is the relationship between different techniques?  How does style differ from technique? What techniques and styles work for today's dancer and why?  Can we imagine and discover an open system of training which allows dancers to be prepared for different ways to translate movement concepts and ideas?

Lastly, how can we approach the study dance as a tool for our education and development as critical thinkers?

Course Objectives

To continue discovering one's personal movement potential through consistent and regularly scheduled studio work.

To refine certain movement concepts (and the reasoning behind them) inherent in dance class format: proper warm up, floor work, center and standing work, moving through space, "hanging".

To discuss and develop performance skills such as projection, spatial intent, focus, and commitment.

To examine the ways in which we look at and learn movement: what do we look at? What do we think about as we watch it?  As we try to do it...

To find dance's relationship to other aspects of life through discussions and responses to performances.

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