Making from Scratch/ Sourcing the Body

DAN2256.02
Course System Home Terms Fall 2016 Making from Scratch/ Sourcing the Body

Course Description

Summary

This is a practice for participants of any discipline to activate the awareness towards the detailed body, vigorous body, sensitive body, rebellious body, fantastic body, in their chosen form or medium. Trusting the intrinsic intelligence of the body in making, we will source multiple systems (eg. muscular, skeletal, fluid, organ) and other ways of reading the body (eg. energy, emotion, history). Form and context are derived from places known through direct experience, drawing on sensation, thought, memory, and imagination. Students' compositional drafts will be regularly created/viewed and discussed, opening up conversations on structure, organization, and disorganization. In order to expand the process, we will develop bi-products for our making through writing, drawing, collage, and storytelling. We will develop the results of this research with a view to presenting and performing in studio showings, produced performances, and/or dance workshops. Attendance at Dance Workshop (Thursday 7:00pm - 8:30 pm) is highly recommended.  

Prerequisites

None.

Please contact the faculty member : edemyanenko@bennington.edu

Corequisites

none

Instructor

  • Elena Demyanenko

Day and Time

Delivery Method

Unknown

Academic Term

Fall 2016

Area of Study

Credits

2

Course Level

2000

Maximum Enrollment

20