Studio Practice: Ballet
Course Description
Summary
Studio Practice is designed to offer each student a rigorous and immersive dance study experience. A deep-dive into practices of critical physicality, students will be supported in making direct connections across an abundance of dance forms that rearrange and blur the boundaries between traditional and emerging techniques. Studio Practice courses focus on the relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, effort, force, and presence, all while moving within the lineages and histories that inform the ways in which we create and encounter our dancing futures. Dancers learn to translate and adapt across forms while focusing on the unique and inherent expressivity of each methodology offered.
Under the guidance of and approved by their faculty, each student will both develop and practice a critical approach to sustainable dance training and creative physicality. This work will include course readings, out-of-studio warm-up, cool-down and strengthening practices as well as generative research/making practices that students will activate on a regular basis. These practices can be done individually or in small study groups. Each student will maintain a workbook/journal for weekly reflective and critical writing in relation to the work of the course.
This course is open to BFA and BA students.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will foster critical thinking about the dancing body and ways of moving
- Students will combine and organize a body practice that reflects on and supports the physical demands of the expanding fields of dance research and performance
- Students will integrate movement through the frames of time, space and poetics
- Students will demonstrate readiness to assume the working life of a professional dancer, whether in academia, world stages or within one鈥檚 community
Prerequisites
Previous dance experience required; permission of instructor. This course is open to BFA and BA students.