Modern/Contemporary I (150-0-20)

Instructors

Jeffery M Hancock
847/467-5938
Ryan Center for Musical Arts, 5-145
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 3:00-5:00pm, other by appointment

Meeting Info

Wirtz Center Ballroom: Mon, Wed 12:00PM - 1:20PM

Overview of class

Modern I is designed for students who are new, early-experienced, or returning to dance class and are looking for a comprehensive introduction to release-based modern technique, contemporary forms, body-work and improvistation. Choreographic material will focus on creating foundationally secure movement approaches with effort, ease, practice, and playfulness in order to learn to begin propelling your body through space and on the ground.

Class structure will include a warm up based on feeling and sensation, a series of short excersizes, accumulated floorwork, and locomoting phrasework. We will activate critical thinking skills to interrogate and celebrate how and why we dance, as well as the ways dancing in the studio is relational to life outside of it.

In order to empower students to find their own individual voice, the classroom culture is intentionally designed as community who are working towards building themselves and each other up to be unique, autonomous, intelligent movers.

Class Materials (Required)

Clothes to dance in ($50) - there is no footwear required as class will be taken in barefeet.