Ndaga - a way of making dance

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Course System Home Terms Fall 2024 Ndaga - a way of making dance

Course Description

Summary

We can define Ndaga as the awareness of legacy and debt, border crossing, re/invention, re/creation, and the desire to create new space for time travel. This is a self-journey. This course is for students who wish to find their artistic voices by exploring an interdisciplinary approach to making work. Using poetry, visual art, improvisation and various movement practices, we will make a series of projects as individuals, as partners in duets, and as members of ensembles. This course will support students in choreographic/artistic risk-taking and the development of new performative directions and perspectives. Students will investigate and explore ways of creating dance suitable for a variety of occasions and a broad range of physical and conceptual abilities.

Prerequisites

Please contact Dana Reitz (dreitz@bennington.edu) via email to express interest in this course and relay information regarding previous experience.

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Corequisites

Dance or Drama lab assignment if students sign up for 4 or more credits in designated dance courses.

Instructor

Day and Time

Academic Term

Fall 2024

Area of Study

Credits

4

Course Level

4000

Maximum Enrollment

10