This intermediate level course will push students to become their own catalyst for change through guided exploratory practices, technical training, and choreography. The pursuit of personal autonomy will be the goal through the practice of improving self-awareness, control, imagination, and artistry. The class incorporates somatic practices from Bartenieff Fundamentals, Listening Strategies with Pauline Oliveros, and One Thousand Voice with Paula Josa-Jones, as well as, contemporary dance and Release technique, Dance Improvisation, martial arts, and dance conditioning. Students will be asked to grow and develop the full range of the dancer’s artistry by exploring stability/mobility, exertion/recuperation, internal connectivity/external expressivity, strength and endurance, inversions, and floor work. They will be called on to learn and create choreography with a focus on risk-taking, musicality, timing, performance skills, and concepts of stage presence. In order for students to be successful in this class, they should have at least two semesters of training in contemporary, modern, improvisation, and/or other advanced beginning level dance techniques.

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