Modern/Contemporary II (250-0-20)
Topic
Partnering
Instructors
Jeffery 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 10:30AM - 11:50AM
Overview of class
This course seeks to expand the definition of what we understand as both partnering and dance through embodied research into personal idiosyncratic, codified technical, and global forms of physical relationality. It places dance partnering on a scale of collaborative possibility including social discourse, collaborative action, and choreographic composition. Beginning with awareness and partnering through sensing, participants will move through their bodies partnering with the floor and space into partnering with other bodies, from partnered yoga to contact improvisation, into classical forms including basic ballet partnering. Safety is first, and all work will be up to the discretion and agreement of the participants and the instructor. Options will be given for alternate ways of working whenever possible.