Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians
DAN4361.01
Course Description
Summary
This class will be co-taught by Dance Faculty from the BFA and BA Dance program and is open to both groups of dance students as well as music students. This class is for students who have had training in improvisational practices. Students will explore and perform structures, paying attention to pattern recognition, arcs of development and the building of gestural, sonic, spatial, and energetic movement and sound vocabularies. Solo and Ensemble practices will be collaborative between dancers and musicians. The performance of improvisation as composition will be shared at the conclusion of the class. Musicians should be able to convey a sense of shape and form on their respective instruments.Prerequisites
Previous work in improvisation. Please contact Michael Wimberly (mwimberly@bennington.edu) with a letter of interest and experience for musicians, and contact Susan Sgorbati (sgorbati@bennington.edu) and Jesse Zaritt (jessezaritt@bennington.edu) for dancers.
Please contact the faculty member : sgorbati@bennington.edu