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Course Description

Summary

BFA students only Jenkins: This class aims to maximize each student’s movement possibilities in a safe, yet rigorous container. We will hone our kinesthetic awareness particularly focusing on the perception of weight and gravity in movement. Class begins with floor work, drawing from meditation, yoga, somatic practices, and Laban/Bartenieff developmental movement principles. We will set a tone of comfort and wakeful sensitivity as we find ‘floors’ of support in the body, space, and sonic environment. Using set and improvised center and traveling exercises, class will progress into movement ideas that attend to weight and momentum shifts, dynamic stability, specific body part initiations, resiliency, rebound, and sequential thinking. We will further these investigations in detailed phrase work that will build throughout the semester. Butler: Course sessions are playfully geared towards kinetic + intuitive investigation while sharpening useful tools to deepen a multifaceted approach to an artistic experience. Classes begin with guided imagery, exploring both fluid and stabilizing exercises to inform various structures in the body. Sessions then flows into dynamic phrasing that encompasses improvisational tasks, floor work, detailed gesturing, musicality, and more. Course dates: November 21, 2024 - December 13, 2024 Shayla: Mon/Tues Rena: Thurs/Friday