Modern/Contemporary II (250-0-20)

Topic

Contemporary Dance in Practice

Instructors

Erin Kilmurray

Meeting Info

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

Overview of class

Contemporary Dance in Practice is designed for intermediate level students, who have some experience with modern/contemporary dance forms. This class offers a music-driven contemporary practice grounded in release-based modern dance technique, incorporating floorwork, improvisation, and group awareness. Class includes a sensation-based warm-up, set choreography built through short exercises and accumulative, traveling phrase work, and ensemble-based exploration through collective directives. The intentionally communal structure encourages rigor and curiosity, empowering students to propel their bodies through space and on the ground with clarity and confidence in collaboration with others.

Class Materials (Required)

Comfortable clothes to move in $1-25

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: This class is restricted to Dance majors/minors & Music Theatre Certificate students during pre-registration, after which time enrollment will be open to everyone who has taken the prerequisites (when pre-reqs are applicable) or have placed in the level