Hyper Body! – Anarchic Ballet to Water Movement to African Dance to Floor Ninja to Body Architecture to Shining Zombie to Unknown Transformation…..

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Course System Home Terms Spring 2025 Hyper Body! – Anarchic Ballet to Water Movement to African Dance to Floor Ninja to Body Architecture to Shining Zombie to Unknown Transformation…..

Course Description

Summary

This beginning-intermediate level course is designed and recommended for students who have some dance experience or equivalent physical training in any movement forms. Anyone who would like to recultivate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand, develop or break the relationship to their own body and commit to consistent physical learning, are welcomed. In order to have our minds and bodies relaxed as a default modality, the class offers somatic practice and warm-ups drawn from Water Body Movement (or Noguchi-taiso) and release techniques. Students are also introduced to various movement forms, practice and sequences fluidly one to another not necessarily with categorization and distinction, on the premises that a body is like a black hole, which absorbs and internalizes everything while constantly forming and renewing its own logic. By exposing a body to various movement languages, rhythms and flows, we will cultivate motor skills, coordination, spatial recognition, phrase learning ability and physical logic making while diving deeply into the process of embodied learning.

Corequisites

Dance or Drama lab assignment if students sign up for 4 or more credits in designated dance courses.

Instructor

  • Mina Nishimura

Day and Time

Academic Term

Spring 2025

Area of Study

Credits

2

Course Level

2000

Maximum Enrollment

20