DANC 202/A (Fall 2024): ORIENTING THE CHOREOG SELF
- Teacher: LILIA MESTRE
DANC 350/A (Fall 2024): PRACT.ANATOMY MOVING BODY
An introduction to human anatomy in relation to movement and dance. The study of skeletal structure and the function of muscles and joints for proper alignment.
In "Practical Anatomy for the Moving Body," we will delve into the body’s interconnected systems and how they interact with gravity, time, flow, and space in the environment. The course takes a holistic approach to exploring various functional and somatic practices aimed at practical and conceptual learning about the body and its potential for movement. We will examine the body's biomechanical, fascial, nervous, and sensory-motor systems through personal observation and experience, drawing insights from diverse cultural, scientific, and movement-based disciplines. Course activities will include practical somatic exercises, experiential activities, dynamic lectures, readings, and group discussions to deliver course content.
- Teacher: ERIN FLYNN
DANC 398/D (Fall 2024): SPECIAL TOPICS IN DANCE
- Teacher: SARA LUCIE HANLEY
- Teacher: ISABELLE POIRIER
DANC 398/E (Fall 2024): SPECIAL TOPICS IN DANCE
- Teacher: ERIN FLYNN
- Teacher: ALANNA KRAAIJEVELD
This course explores improvisation as a critical practice of inclusion and resistance. Class elements are warm-up, theory (reading and discussion), practice, presentation (performance and discussion), a public performance and two assignments. We will build improvisation sets that encompass the aesthetics, values, and needs of those present while acknowledging those who are not present. We will explore several choreographic practices from the 1960s to today. Acknowledging the political environment in which practices have emerged, we will read and discuss texts that activate improvisation as a possible decolonial form. Open to music and theatre students, the course fosters interdisciplinary collaboration with input from both departments and guest teachers.
- Teacher: MARIE CLAIRE FORTE
DANC 402/A (Fall 2024): POLITICS OF DANCE
- Teacher: JENS GIERSDORF
DANC 420/A (Fall/Winter 2024-25): CHOREOGRAPHY II
- Teacher: LILIA MESTRE
- Teacher: PIERRE-MARC OUELLETTE
DANC 203/A (Winter 2025): COLLAB IN CHOREOG PRACTICES
- Teacher: ERIN FLYNN
DANC 211/A (Winter 2025): DANCE TRADITIONS
- Teacher: JENS GIERSDORF
- Teaching Assistant: Lucie Beylard
DANC 303/A (Winter 2025): SCEN &OTHER SPATIAL COND DANCE
- Teacher: LILIA MESTRE
DANC 250/A (Winter 2025): ASPECTS OF PROD. FOR DANCE
- Teacher: PAUL CHAMBERS
DANC 398/D (Winter 2025): SPECIAL TOPICS IN DANCE
- Teacher: MARIE CLAIRE FORTE
- Teacher: PIERRE-MARC OUELLETTE
DANC 398/E (Winter 2025): SPECIAL TOPICS IN DANCE
- Teacher: SARA LUCIE HANLEY
- Teacher: ALANNA KRAAIJEVELD
DANC 398/G (Winter 2025): SPECIAL TOPICS IN DANCE
- Teacher: ANGELIQUE WILLKIE
In this studio-based course, students examine environmental and sustainable practices in relation to dance. Attention is given to how dance can be used as a tool to communicate environmental issues to diverse audiences and to interrogate the impact of dance practices on the environment, dancers’ bodies, and communities. Students study the work of choreographers who practice social, decolonized, and environmental sustainability and examine ways to apply these approaches to their own creative practices.
- Teacher: KAMA MAUREEMOOTOO