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. Technique courses led by New York Live Arts meet four times each week
and carry 2 credits, courses meeting twice weekly carry 1 credit.
Introductory
Dance Courses:
Classes in
modern dance and ballet 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.
15328 |
DAN
104 NYLA Intro to Modern Dance |
Leah Cox |
M . W . . . T . Th . |
3:10pm-4:30pm 3:10pm-4:30pm |
PAC THORNE CAMPUS MPR |
PART |
2 credits This course is for students who want
to engage in an intense experience of dance in the broadest and most
contemporary sense. We will move vigorously in each class in order to
develop our skills as articulate movers, cultivating athleticism, kinesthetic
sophistication, and range. We will place equal emphasis on developing our
skills in improvisation and composition alongside our "dancerly" capacities. Class will include
watching and discussing contemporary dance performance and choreographers
working today.
Readings, written assignments, and attendance at performances
outside of regular class hours are essential aspects of the course. No
movement experience required, only a commitment to rigorous intellectual,
creative, and physical experiences. Taught as part
of the partnership with New York Live Arts, led by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane
Dance Company and NY Live Arts teaching artists. This class
meets 4 days per week. Contact Leah Cox at [email protected] with
any questions. Class size: 25
15327 |
DAN
104 PF Intro to Modern Dance |
Peggy Florin |
. T . Th . |
10:10am- 11:30am |
FISHER PAC THORNE |
PART |
1 credit Class size: 25
Advanced Beginner level is intended for students who
have had at least one semester, or the equivalent, of dance. Students are urged
to speak with instructors about their dance level prior to registration.
15330 |
DAN
106 PK Advanced / Beginning Modern Dance |
Peter Kyle |
. T . Th . |
3:10pm-4:30pm |
FISHER PAC THORNE |
PART |
1 credit Class size: 20
15329 |
DAN
106 VA Advanced / Beginning Ballet |
Victoria Anderson |
. T . Th . |
11:50am-1:10pm |
FISHER PAC THORNE |
PART |
1 credit Class size: 20
15475 |
DAN
135 DABKEH: introduction to palestinian “stomp” |
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins |
M . W . . |
3:10pm-4:30pm |
FISHER NUREYEV |
PART |
Cross-listed: Middle Eastern Studies Dabkeh (also sometimes transliterated as dabke, dabka, dabki,
dabkah or debke) is a
popular dance form that emerged in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and
Turkey. “Dabkeh” comes from the Arabic word for
“stomping the ground.” It has historically been and continues to be danced at
community celebrations such as weddings. In the past several decades it has
also been become more stylized for performances on stage and in dance
competitions in the Middle East and abroad. This class will offer the
opportunity to learn some “traditional” versions of dabkeh,
danced in a line or a circle, as well as more contemporary choreographies
designed for the stage. We will draw especially on forms of dabkeh
danced and performed in Palestine today. No prior experience in dance or in dabkeh necessary. Sneakers or flat, hard-soled boots are
required. Class size: 15
Intermediate
and Advanced Dance Technique:
15332 |
DAN
212 PF Intermediate Ballet |
Peggy Florin |
. . W . F |
8:30am-9:50am |
FISHER PAC THORNE |
PART |
Class size: 20
15333 |
DAN
212 PF2 Intermediate Modern Dance |
Peggy Florin |
. T . Th . |
11:50am-1:10pm |
CAMPUS MPR |
PART |
Class size: 20
15334 |
DAN
216 NYLA Intermediate / Advanced Modern Dance |
Leah Cox |
M . W . . . T . Th . |
1:30pm-2:50pm 1:30pm-2:50pm |
PAC THORNE CAMPUS MPR |
PART |
2 credits This course is designed for students
wishing to experience an intense, three-dimensional study of
modern dance. Technique class is structured as a laboratory
where physical possibilities are explored with a mixture of rigor and
freedom, specificity and abandon. Technique class will also be
a place of critical thinking. The material we study exists to
nourish our creative bodies/minds, challenging us to re-articulate/re-imagine
our relationships to codified movement systems. Students must have a
strong technical foundation, be self-motivated, and be capable of handling
the demands of a four-day-a-week class. Readings, written
assignments, and attendance at performances outside of regular class hours
are essential aspects of the course, augmenting our intellectual
understanding of technique and performance. Taught as
part of the partnership with New York Live Arts, led by Bill T. Jones/Arnie
Zane Dance Company and NY Live Arts teaching artists. Course led
by Leah Cox and Cori Olinghouse.
Prerequisite: Previous enrollment in a BTJAZ/NYLA technique
class. Contact Leah Cox with any questions: [email protected]. Class size: 20
15337 |
DAN
312 MS Advanced Ballet |
Maria Simpson |
M . W . . |
10:10am- 11:30am |
FISHER PAC THORNE |
PART |
Class size: 15
15335 |
DAN
222 Contact Improvisation |
Amii LeGendre |
. T . Th . |
10:10am- 11:30am |
CAMPUS MPR |
PART |
Class size: 25
DANCE COMPOSITION / CREATIVE PRACTICE
Three credits.
Dance Composition
introduces principles and theories about choreography. Three levels of Dance
Composition are required of all dance majors, and all students enrolled in
Dance Composition must attend Dance Workshop but should not register for it. Dance
Composition is open to non-majors with permission of the instructor.
15331 |
DAN
118 Beginning Composition |
Peter Kyle |
. T . Th . |
4:40pm-6:00pm |
FISHER PAC THORNE |
PART |
Class size: 12
15345 |
DAN
WKSHP Dance Workshop |
Peggy Florin / Maria Simpson |
. T . . . |
6:15pm-8:00pm |
FISHER PAC THORNE |
PART |
Non-dance
majors and students not registered for composition courses can register for
Dance Workshop for 1 credit. Class size:TBA
15481 |
DAN
LAB Dance composition lab |
TBA |
. . . . F |
10:10-am-11:30am |
FISHER PAC THORNE |
PART |
DANCE REPERTORY
15339 |
DAN
316 NYLA Dance Repertory |
Leah Cox / Beth Gill |
. . . Th . . . . . F |
6:15pm-9:15pm 12:00pm-3:30pm |
FISHER PAC THORNE |
PART |
This
Repertory class will act as a research lab for choreographer Beth Gill's
current dance project I'm not supposed to be here, which will
premiere in NYC in spring 2016. Students will be given a window into Gill's
creative process by participating in and contributing to this project's early
research. Certain classes will allow student's to
work alongside Gill's four professional dancers. Class time will be spent
developing new methodologies for generating movement material, actively
reflecting through shared discourse and ultimately generating choreographic
structures, which may be shared informally at the end of the class.
Participating students should be enthusiastic about improvisation, self motivated, disciplined, curious and critical thinkers.
Enrollment will be by audition only. Contact Leah Cox at [email protected] for
audition date and time.
15340 |
DAN
316 MS Dance Repertory / CHOREOGRAPHY LICENSING PROJECT |
Maria Simpson |
M . W . . |
11:50am-1:10pm |
FISHER PAC THORNE |
PART |
3 credits In this course students will learn a
seminal choreographic work from an established choreographer outside of Bard
which will result in the performance of the work as a featured event in the
spring faculty dance concert. Maria Simpson is the designated rehearsal
director who will run the rehearsals during the weekly course meetings.
Students MUST be available, without fail, for all rehearsals, which will
include 4- 5 intensive weekend work periods in February and March. Class size: by invitation
15338 |
DAN
316 PF Dance Repertory |
Peggy Florin |
TBA |
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TBA |
PART |
Class size: by invitation
DANCE STUDIES
15342 |
DAN
350 Junior / Senior Seminar |
Leah Cox |
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11:50am-1:10pm |
FISHER CONFERENCE |
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Cross-listed: Theater & Performance What is the
current landscape of the contemporary performance world? What are
the most relevant models for funding and producing independent work?
Who are the other professionals involved in getting a
performance? What are the options for continuing your learning after
your undergraduate career and when is graduate school the right next step,
if at all? This course will provide students with the knowledge and
skills to begin a professional practice. Among other skills,
students will prepare a portfolio of their work, delve into development,
and imagine future work. Students will explore the range
of jobs that allow for a continuing creative practice and understand
how to interact with professionals in all aspects of the performing
arts. A rotating roster of guest teachers will address
issues relevant to artists entering the field and discuss their own roles
within the professional dance/theater world. This course is
geared towards junior and senior dance and theater majors. Led by Leah Cox ([email protected])
Note: This course will demand 2-4 hours of project-based homework
each week. Class size:
15
15343 |
DAN
360 Dance History |
Victoria Anderson |
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3:10pm-4:30pm |
OLIN 309 |
AART |
This course,
entitled An Archeology of Dance: Ten Masterworks of Modernity presents
ten dance masterworks of the twentieth century as windows onto the history of
dance. The works are diverse in genre and origin, ranging from Nijinsky’s Rite
of Spring(1913),
to Katherine Dunham’s Shango (1945), to
Banchine’s Agon
(1957), to the Swing Dance movement of the Harlem Renaissance. Inspired in
part by Foucault’s notion of archeology as historical method the class will
treat each masterwork as a site in which history may be traced by delving into
the cracks and fissures the work instigates in the historical archive. The
class will be a lecture / discussion seminar with weekly reading assignments,
several short essay response papers, and student presentations. Class
size: 15