Advanced Improvisation (326-0-20)

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 1:30PM - 2:50PM

Overview of class

Improvisation: Practicing Presnt-ing aims to open the space between the past and the future toward the possibility of agency in that split-second; finding agency between sensing, impulse, decision, and re/action. A range of improvisation and scoring techniques created by scholar-practitioners of improvisation will be explored as embodied research in weekly performance practices, compositional processes, and critical embodiment - where values are lived through the choices we make. The class is practice based, meets twice a week, and requires reflective writing in a journal, a video log, and reflective discussion and feedback in class. Final projects are co-defined by the student and professor by week 6, and will be shown the last day of class.Our goal is to explore improvisation as a generative and compositional tool in dance-making that encourages fluid, dynamic play in the field of choice(s).

Registration Requirements

Pre-reg: Dance maj/min + MT Cert | Open to all undergraduates during regular registration

Class Materials (Required)

Comfortable clothing you can move in, non-slippery socks or soft dance shoes of any type, no street shoes. $1-10

Class Attributes

SoC Humanities and Fine Arts Distro