DANC 040. Modern I

TENSION CONTINUUMS. This course is designed to introduce skills and performance sensibilities in the area of Contemporary Dance techniques. In this class, we will utilize a range of approaches to tension and meta-tension through dance, in the interest of defining various sensibilities to sequential movement. Movement will be sourced from an array of US American post-modern and social dance sources (i.e. release techniques, dancehall, etc.), as well as European contemporary dance sources (i.e. Countertechnique, Axis Syllabus technique). Our work will be in the service of defining techniques and values to equip our physical, mental, and emotional bodies with skills to be readily mobile, present, attentive and communicative. We will explore our bodies in dynamic alignment, moving toward an understanding of the infinities that exist inside and outside of our physical bodies. Ideally, the course will be a useful tool to ignite growth in students as learners, dancers, and performers. This class will also involve 3 Saturday sessions (spread throughout the semester) in which we will learn a warm-up choreography designed by dancer and anatomist Irene Dowd.
Humanities.
0.5 credit or P.E.
Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Dance
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program

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