Graduate Dance Technique

Catalog description

The ongoing, rigorous training in a dance/movement style pertinent to the individual student’s artistic and pedagogical goals. Exploration of unfamiliar movement disciplines will be required. This course is designed to allow each student to articulate and execute a regular training regimen that will build and refine her/his skills as practitioner of an artistic movement discipline. A variety of individual training plans are overseen by faculty. Regular group meetings examine how underlying aesthetic and kinesiological assumptions embodied by the training inform students’ approaches to teaching artistry, improvisation, and choreography.May be taken more than once for credit; required 3 times for MA, 2 times for BA/MA, 4 times for the MFA.