Alexander Technique: Optimizing how you work when moving (advanced)

DAN4370.01
Course System Home Terms Spring 2025 Alexander Technique: Optimizing how you work when moving (advanced)

Course Description

Summary

This course will deepen students’ understanding of the Alexander Technique and Ideokinesis in relation to dance, the practice of performance, and everyday movement. It is both a movement and somatic class. This is a more advanced study of the Technique and its application. The Alexander Technique opens up the possibility of finding new balance, efficiency, strength, direction, and perspective. It makes your physical capacity more available, as well as your performative intelligence, and it improves everyday function. Some classes will include the application of the Alexander Technique and performance practice principles when moving or dancing, and some classes will focus on the study of the skeleton in order to understand the fundamentals of the body. The instructor will guide and support students into a more optimal balance and freedom. Alexander Technique challenges the student to wake up and notice what it is they are doing in their day to day lives and performance work. This shift in awareness and attention aims to stimulate and enhance better function all around.

Prerequisites

Please contact via email (roswarby@bennington.edu) describing your interest in the course and your previous experience.

Please contact the faculty member : dreitz@bennington.edu

Corequisites

Dance or Drama Lab Assignment if students are registered for 4 or more credits in designated dance courses

Instructor

  • Dana Reitz

Day and Time

Academic Term

Spring 2025

Area of Study

Credits

4

Course Level

4000

Maximum Enrollment

20