Worldmaking

Catalog description

Worldmaking is a semester-long composition course for MFA students. Structured as a laboratory with body-based explorations, group discussions, and collaborative experiments, this course will offer many ways for the cohort to engage with and propose new compositional systems. Through improvisational modes, algorithmic scores, and game-based ideas we will generate relational strategies for building provisional worlds. World-building involves imagining, transmitting, testing, constructing, inhabiting and performing. Students will collaborate to search, gather and sort a new lexicon with cross-pollinating ideas. The process will be documented using analog tools, memory, written descriptions, drawings and cameras. The sensorial experiences, modalities and structures that emerge will be translated into living archives that account for the ephemerality inherent in dance. Advanced undergraduate choreographers can take this course upon permission.