Modern/Contemporary I (150-0-1)

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: Tues, Thurs 3:00PM - 4:20PM

Overview of class

This introductory course seeks to expand what and how we understand 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 approach partnering through weight/counterbalance, time, swing, space/place, light, text, and costumes/props. 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.

Class Materials (Required)

Comfortable loose clothing. $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