Performance Project: Cultivating Resilience: A Score for Movement & Light
Course Description
Summary
Resilience deals with not only the expected but also the unexpected. During this period of time, Dana Reitz will create a new dance work with the entire group, in sections and as a whole, that will rise from the participants. During class and outside of class, everyone will be involved in creating individual movement material and delving into multiple variations – of the phrases, spatial use, and overall timing.
Performers will workshop interactions with each other and help discover interrelated elements. All will work toward developing a strong, deeply rooted performance presence, keenly attentive to others and the surrounding, shifting circumstances. We will integrate light early on in the rehearsal process, to help build an ever-changing landscape – leaving emphasis, direction, and focus in flux.
Students will be selected through a live audition process TBD prior to registration. The final work will be presented to the public at the end of the term. Performers are expected to be fully involved in all technical rehearsals leading up to the final performance.
Learning Outcomes
- Explore new avenues for creative process with flexibility and patience.
- Develop and alter movement material swiftly and nimbly.
- Learn to read and work with the timing of others.
- Notice and explore the interrelationship of timing, spacing, quality of movement, focus and intent.
- Strengthen performance skills as individuals and as part of an ensemble.
- Hone observational and feedback skills.
Prerequisites
Intermediate/Advanced Level work and Permission of Instructor. Live audition TBD prior to registration.
Please contact the faculty member : dreitz@bennington.edu
Corequisites
Dance or Drama Lab Assignment.