Ballet Anarchy
DAN4181.01
Course Description
Summary
This course is designed for students who have some ballet experience and are familiar with basic ballet terms and movement vocabulary. While following a basic structure and flow of a traditional ballet class, this course, accompanied by non-traditional music scores such as pop music, offers an opportunity to recalibrate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand, develop or break existing relationships with and approaches to ballet practice. To relax and liberate our minds and bodies from the mentality often attached to perfecting a form and following a certain manner while being exposed to more complex and contemporary movement vocabularies, the class will also introduce some improvisational and experimental exercise, and release technique based phrases that will interrupt and redirect the traditional flow of ballet class.Prerequisites
Ballet experience is required in order to register for the class. Please contact the instructors Kota Yamazaki (kyamazaki@bennington.edu) and Mina Nishimura (mnishimura@bennington.edu) for inquiry and permission.
Please contact the faculty member : mnishimura@bennington.edu
Corequisites
Dance or Drama lab assignment if students sign up for 4 or more credits in dance.