Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

A continuation of the work in CA 123, this course focusses on a range of movement forms and approaches to dance studio practice. Students with credit for FPA 220 may not take this course for further credit.

COURSE DETAILS:

This class provides a safe space for movement inquiry, analysis and development with a holistic approach. By combining different improvisation tools and techniques incited from different movements languages, (such as Gaga Movement and others), students can work on elevating their technique and experience new sensations.

The main goal is to take each individual on a journey of desmantelation and discovery, considering new defaults and working on internal awareness. This class provides tools and concepts that allow the participants to break their habits and challenge personal expectations and limitations. A dialogue between past and present movement knowledge, between the single individual on a unique journey and the multiplicity and diversity of the bodies in the room. The work combines different volumes of physicality, multiple use of techniques and an open highway for communication.

The focus of this class will also shift as the semester happens and the group develops awareness.
1st stage: “to sense the body and movement” - developing new embodiment possibilities
2nd stage: “to analyze my movement and others” - the opportunity to analyze movement and describe it physically
3rd stage: “movement direction - communicate with clarity ” the ability to adopt descriptive and accurate communication idioms

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

During this semester we will work on:

Movement analysis (personal and of others):

• The ability to assess and analyze movement patterns and habits by using different improvisations and somatic practices.
• Break and create new movement patterns.
  • Analyze yourself and others.
  • Use other bodies to understand your own body.

• Use the terms and concepts of class to sense the body and movement at a deeper level. The language provides a wide range of concepts that create different movement qualities that can be used to create a complex movement vocabulary.

• This class fosters a sense of curiosity. The student (and teacher) must implement a continuous focus on wanting to discover deeper layers of awareness on a regular basis: the idea that we can never experience the same sensation twice and so we must pay attention to the body in the moment (how we sense it), as if we were working on the concept for the first time.

• In this class we work a lot with passion and groove. We constantly give space for the research to encounter a moment of authentic pleasure and connection to our own passion. Why do we move/dance? What moves us? What feels good? This way we practice working with pleasure in hard moments (for example, while in effort we always connect to pleasure). How can we use our pleasure to go beyond our capacity and find new possibilities?
• We often try to “laugh at ourselves” in class, we are told to “take ourselves in a less serious way” in order to remind the body to enjoy our reality and the moment. How can we find pleasure and lightness (letting go) in difficult moments?

Grading

Materials

REQUIRED READING NOTES: