DANC 103

Spring 2015 All Classes

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Contact Improvisation

Credit: 2 hours.

Introduction to basic elements of Contact Improvisation through learning skills such as weight sharing, falling, rolling, responding to touch, momentum, gravity and disorientations. Course work will include dancing, dance making, viewing dance, in-class discussions and short writing assignments. Students must attend the Department of Dance's "November Dance" production in KCPA.

May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours. Prerequisite: For non-dance majors.

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DANC 103 class schedule data for spring 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	60314	Laboratory	A	1:00PM -2:20PM	MW	Dance Studio	Weidman, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Section Info: Contact improvisation is a collaborative dance form where movers kinetically respond to each other in ever new and changing ways. Contact Improvisation (CI) draws practices from martial arts, modern dance, somatic techniques, social dance, and experimental performance. Since its emergence in the U.S. in the early 1970?s, CI has spread widely. Communities of practitioners come together for ?contact jams? and festivals all over the world. CI has been integrated into professional dance training programs, applied in performance and choreography, and hybridized with social dance forms. This course will introduce students to CI principles such as listening and following impulses with another mover, weight sharing and counterbalance, gravity and momentum, safe falls and lifts, moving in spherical space, compositional awareness, and ensemble improvisation skills. We will also develop solo practices that we can carry into duets and open dancing with the whole group.