CIC: Composition--Dance Theater with Alexandra Beller

Week One: Making Movement for Dance Theater
How does movement invention function in Dance Theater? In this class we will explore the creation of personal, narrative, gestural and full bodied movement that is able to tell a story. Through both the creation of movement as well as of context for the movement, we will begin to divine the possibilities of character, narrative, relationship and trajectory through the specificity of movement.

Class Description:
This class explores the qualities of released and off-balance dancing while daring students to find disparate qualities of stillness and explosion. Students are encouraged to develop an individual style driven by their internal life and the specificity of their bodies. By researching movement tasks as opposed to recreating shapes, students will begin to solve kinesthetic problems in a profound and personal way. We will focus on becoming compelling and magnetic performers, and working within a broad range of movements: vigorous, athletic, gestural and theatrical.

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