CIC:Compostion-Dance Theater with Alexandra Beller

Week Two: Using Text in Dance Theater
How does text function in the genre of Dance Theater? In this class we will work on developing functional, metaphorical, and conversational text that creates, deepens, and changes a story. Through the creation of idiosyncratic, pedestrian and dramatic texts, and the positioning of the text within a movement context, we will begin to explore the possibilities of how movement and text can break each other open and reveal each to the other.

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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