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Course Description

Summary

During this course, students will begin to reflect, gather, articulate, and compose their extensive body of professional work in the field of dance by organizing their work into a text which will be bound. The portfolio is developed to include a thoughtful and critically developed artist statement, current CV, written narrative of their work, press public reviews, and a list of any grants, honorariums and/or fellowships along with the encouragement of a creative approach to sharing the emergence of themselves as dance artists. In this way, students will be encouraged to find innovative ways to share their work both online and on paper.   The time will be spent working on collaborating and working together to help create and help build the Portfolio books through a shared partnership of a student generating the content of their books, and attending meetings to discuss their process of composition and responding to the suggestions and leadership offered by the professor. After the Portfolios have been completed there will be a presentation of this material in an Artist Talk which will behave not only as a presentation of their Portfolios but as a public and often inventive sharing of the body of their work. What this means and how it comes together is flexible and will be determined through an understanding of a student’s career and work. This will include a multidisciplinary perspective to the many ways that one’s work can be expressed.