Dance and Music: Our Shared Time
Context |
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Professor:
Maria Simpson and Daniel Joseph Hyde |
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Course Number: DAN 251 |
CRN Number: 10424 |
Class
cap: 12 |
Credits: 3 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Fri 1:30 PM - 2:50
PM Fisher Performing Arts Center
THORNE STU |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
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Crosslists: Music |
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In this course dancers and musicians unite to investigate the
age-old collaboration between Dance and Music, finding their connection in
the abstract environment of Time. The goal here is to illuminate Time as a
shared path to increasing artistic behavior in training, performance, and
creation. Film study, cross-analysis of artforms, dialogue, and collaborative
experimentation lead to communal fluency in use and perception of “Time”,
expanding expressive and collaborative potentials. Dancers learn to see
movement in music. Musicians begin to hear music in the dance. This course
will include solo composition, reflective writing assignments, live
experimentation in one’s own technique, and a final collaborative project.
Dancers and musicians should be experienced students in their craft, with at
least an intermediate level of technical skill and an ability to generate
short compositions in their respective field. Keyboard, percussion, and
string instruments preferred. Space for 6 dancers and 6 musicians. 3 credits.
Please direct questions to Daniel Hyde at: dhyde@bard.edu |
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Dancing Migrations: Tracing Mexico's
Points of Access and Departure |
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Professor:
Yebel Gallegos |
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Course Number: DAN 360 |
CRN Number: 10428 |
Class
cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Fisher Performing Arts Center CONFERENCE |
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Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis
of Art |
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Crosslists: |
Latin
American/Iberian Studies |
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Human migration has been a constant force shaping history. In
many ways, human movement has created opportunities for culture to evolve and
thrive. Together, we will examine how dance as a resilient art form has
adapted and transformed due to migration and cross-cultural exchanges. This
course moves away from a traditional Euro-U.S.-centric approach to dance
history and explores ritual and concert dance from a Mexican perspective.
Offered as a seminar-style course, readings by Diana Taylor, Gloria Anzaldúa,
Elizabeth Schwall, and David Delgado Shorter, among others, combined with
discussions, movement explorations, and visits by guest speakers will deepen
our knowledge and understanding of dance as a global art form. There will be
weekly writing, a mid-term project proposal, and a final project. |
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Dance Technique Courses:
Intensive technique studies are essential to a
serious dance student’s training. Intending and current dance majors must
register for two credits of dance technique each semester of their four years
at Bard.
Introductory Dance Courses:
Classes in different movement genres intended
for the beginner; no previous dance experience necessary. Open to all students.
New students with previous dance experience should speak with the dance
professors before registration.
Beginning Ballet I |
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Professor:
Yebel Gallegos |
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Course Number: DAN 104B |
CRN Number: 10417 |
Class
cap: 25 |
Credits: 1 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
3:10 PM - 4:30 PM Fisher
Performing Arts Center THORNE STU |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
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This course is an introduction to ballet technique. It is
primarily a movement-based course with brief lectures and discussion sessions
that will address a variety of dance-related subjects such as music, basic
anatomy, and observing live dance performances. Experience is not necessary
to enroll. |
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Introduction to Hip Hop |
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Professor:
Dedrick Gray |
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Course Number: DAN 104H DG |
CRN Number: 10419 |
Class
cap: 25 |
Credits: 1 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 1:30 PM
- 2:50 PM Campus Center MPR |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
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This course is an introduction to the studio practice of
hip-hop dance. Students will learn to execute and name hip-hop groove
techniques and styles within social dances, as well as apply these elements
to freestyle. |
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Introduction to Modern Dance |
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Professor:
DD Dorvillier and
Walter Dundervill |
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Course Number: DAN 104M VA |
CRN Number: 10418 |
Class
cap: 25 |
Credits: 1 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Fisher Performing Arts Center THORNE
STU |
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PA Practicing
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Open to all levels of experience, this course will draw on
a variety of practices employed by DD Dorvillier and Walter Dundervill in their
shared and individual creative dancing processes. We will use music, touch,
writing, objects, and the room as resources to enrich our dancing. The first
six classes led by Dorvillier, will be an opportunity to discover elements of
Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) tapping into the imagination while
developing balance, fluidity, and a sense of multi-directionality in body
organization and space, as well as Touch Move Talk Write (TMTW) which centers
artistic exploration and discovery through timed practices of these four
elements. In the classes led by Dundervill, internal listening and sensing
will be further honed as the class embodies the microstructures of a fungal
organism exploring unique ways of inhabiting inner and outer worlds.
Authentic Movement, where participants follow their own movement impulses,
will be practiced throughout the semester, acting as a bridge between the two
approaches. For more information please contact: Tara Lorenzen,
tlorenzen@bard.edu |
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Intermediate and Advanced Dance Technique:
Intensive technique studies are essential to a
serious dance student’s training. Intending and current dance majors must
register for two credits of dance technique each semester. Also open to non-majors with experience,
inclination, and permission of the instructor.
Intermediate Contemporary West African
Dance |
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Professor:
Souleymane Badolo |
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Course Number: DAN 212A SB |
CRN Number: 10676 |
Class
cap: 25 |
Credits: 1 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
8:30 AM - 9:50 AM Fisher
Performing Arts Center THORNE STU |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
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Rooted in contemporary African Dance, using Badolo's own movement
style, this course explores movement over/under/inside and outside the
tradition. The class begins with a warm-up that involves both physical and
mental preparation. By listening to internal rhythms of the body and the beat
of the music, dancers can discover their own musicality and their own
movement language. Students will be exposed to the skills of improvisation
starting with simple forms. |
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Intermediate Ballet |
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Professor:
Maria Simpson |
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Course Number: DAN 212B MS |
CRN Number: 10422 |
Class
cap: 20 |
Credits: 1 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Fisher
Performing Arts Center THORNE STU |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
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This class is intended for students who have a strong
foundation in ballet, seeking to expand their technical knowledge, as well as
more seasoned dancers who are interested in refining their craft. We
prioritize movement efficiency, supported by the understanding that our
bodies have an innate capacity for balance. Learning to not interfere with
that natural organization is a large part of the work we do. Barre focuses on
weight shifting, kinesthetic awareness, and developing a dynamic relationship
with music so that we can easily transition into big, luscious waltzes and
momentum-based jumps in the center. |
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Intermediate Advanced Modern Dance |
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Professor:
Tara Lorenzen |
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Course Number: DAN 216 TL |
CRN Number: 10423 |
Class
cap: 20 |
Credits: 1 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 10:10 AM
- 11:30 AM Fisher Performing Arts Center THORNE
STU |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
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“The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion,
the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not
a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a
devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing
too...” — Merce Cunningham. By studying the Merce Cunningham technique, we
will explore the virtuosity of the body in relation to time and space. This
class is intended for individuals who are interested in exploring rigorous
dancing within a structured foundation. Must have taken at least one semester
of an upper level (Intermediate or Advanced) dance course. For more
information contact: tlorenzen@bard.edu |
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Dance Composition
Dance Composition I |
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Professor:
Souleymane Badolo |
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Course Number: DAN 118 |
CRN Number: 10420 |
Class
cap: 15 |
Credits: 3 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 1:30 PM
- 2:50 PM Fisher Performing Arts Center THORNE
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
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Students will be guided, through improvisation exercises,
to explore movement vocabulary outside of their normal sphere of experience
in order to cultivate a personal “voice.” This will lead to each student
increasing the repertory of choices for movement meaning-making. Fundamental
questions of how to consider space and rhythm as choreographic tools will
represent a large portion of the class content. There will be multiple
creative projects and writing assignments in the course. |
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Dance Composition III |
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Professor:
Maria Simpson |
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Course Number: DAN 318 |
CRN Number: 10425 |
Class
cap: 15 |
Credits: 3 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Fisher
Performing Arts Center THORNE STU |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
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Dance Comp III is designed for students who have completed
Dance Comp I, II. In this class students will synthesize the tools developed so
far and apply them in different creative contexts. Emphasis will be placed on
the consideration of the shape of content – the idea that the content of a
dance is only as good as its shape. Short movement studies and 3 larger
projects will be the core of the creative work in the course, enhanced by
relevant readings and films of well-known artists’ dances. All Comp
students will be required to attend Dance Workshop and participate as part of
the production team for one of the dance concerts held during the semester. |
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Dance Workshop |
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Professor:
Tara Lorenzen |
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Course Number: DAN WKSHP |
CRN Number: 10429 |
Class
cap: 25 |
Credits: 1 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue 6:15 PM
- 8:00 PM Fisher Performing Arts Center THORNE
STU |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
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Dance Workshop is a once-weekly evening workshop during
which undergraduates are invited to present work in progress for critical feedback
from faculty and peers. This is not a movement class taught by a single
instructor but a non-hierarchical community gathering at which everyone
participates in discussions and constructive conversation about dance and
dance-making. All students enrolled in dance composition are required to
attend. There may be assigned readings and short writing assignments. |
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Dance Repertory – For a Permanent
Dance |
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Professor:
DD Dorvillier and
Walter Dundervill |
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Course Number: DAN 316 VA |
CRN Number: 10426 |
Class
cap: 10 |
Credits: 3 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 3:10 PM
- 4:30 PM Fisher Performing Arts Center THORNE
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
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In this course, students will work on the development of an
original choreographic project in preparation for the 2024 Faculty Concert, a
public performance in the Luma Theater at the end of April. For a Permanent
Dance will be an adaptation of fragments of Dorvillier’s Danza Permanente,
tailor made for the participants of this course. It will be a collaboration
between dancer/choreographers DD Dorvillier and Walter Dundervill with
students of the course, alongside guest interventions by Composer Zeena Parkins.
Please come ready and willing to dance, think, listen, and play with
musicality in new and unexpected ways. The choreography of Danza Permanente
comes from “String Quartet #15 Opus 132 in A minor” by Ludwig Van Beethoven.
The score is transposed into movement for dancers. Performers rigorously
embody the written musical structure, behaviors, and dynamics of the string
quartet over time, and through space. The dancers behave as sound, in the
silence. Open to students who have taken at least one Intermediate level
dance technique course. Students must be available for all spacing,
dress rehearsals, and costume fittings. For more information please
contact: Tara Lorenzen, tlorenzen@bard.edu Students must be available for all
spacing, dress rehearsals, and costume fittings. For more information
please contact: Tara Lorenzen, tlorenzen@bard.edu |
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Dance Repertory- Black Dance in
America; From the Culture to the Stage |
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Professor:
Dedrick Gray |
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Course Number: DAN 316 DG |
CRN Number: 10427 |
Class
cap: 10 |
Credits: 3 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 4:40 PM
- 6:00 PM Fisher Performing Arts Center THORNE
STU |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
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In this course, students will work on the development of a
choreographic project in preparation for the 2024 Faculty Concert, a public
performance in the Luma Theater at the end of April. This process oriented
class will explore Black Diasporic cultural dance practices through
compositional structures, movement development techniques, and improvisation.
Students will be encouraged to collaborate in all elements of the
choreography and must be available for costume fittings, spacing/dress
rehearsals, and performances outside of the regularly scheduled class
times. Prerequisites: Audition, Thursday, December 14th from
6:30-7:30pm in Thorne Studio, Fisher Center. Must have successfully completed
either Intro to Hip Hop, Intro to West African or have prior training in
either genre. |
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