Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

The fourth and final Performance research course in voice and movement. Students with credit for FPA 355 may not take this course for further credit.

COURSE DETAILS:

In this movement-based course students will work with scored improvisational tasks privileging both individual and the collective movements. The improvisatory scores propose systems of support from inside and outside of the body, invite nuanced articulation of joints and flesh, and activate the mind as a catalyst for shifts in sensation and perception. The scores incrementally layer movement strategies while attending to how bodies are made and shaped through practice and culture. This class privileges how our way of thinking about our bodies, creates a felt sense in the body that is malleable in thought and in practice. 

Embodied Recordings & Collective Movements is an invitation to come into critical relationship with what has been choreographed around us in relationship to architecture, urban planning, topography and governance, and in turn what has been choreographed within us through out individual and shared histories, cultures and the many spoken and unspoken social codes of conduct. Through activating their bodies as an imperfect recording device, students will create personal and shared embodied archives as source material for developing individual and group projects.

In this class, the embodied archive and physical scores become containers for attention. They are strategies for remaining present, feeling the senses work in concert, and becoming attuned to both internal and external physical negotiations. 

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

STUDENT EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

Students are expected to:

• Arrive on time for scheduled classes and any group work outside of class. Absence and tardiness will adversely affect the final grade. Notify the instructor in advance of all absences. Arriving to class late 3 times equals one absence. 5% of the final grade is reduced for every absence.
• Complete assignments on time.
• Participate in group discussions and presentations.
• Hold each other accountable in the studio to appropriate behaviour.
• Work with curiosity and care for themselves and their cohort.
• Nurture an interest in the unknown and the unformed.
• Cultivate rigour and attention to the specificity of movement and qualitative shifts in sensation.
• Engage in deep listening, while also developing a practice of verbally articulating the work at hand.
• Question, receive and integrate feedback into your practice.

Grading

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

REQUIRED READING NOTES: