DANC 280
Dancing the Score/Scoring the Dance Spring 2019
Division I
Cross-listed MUS 280
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This course is designed for students interested in intensive collaborative composition work in dance and music. Students in dance will be paired with students in music; both students will be supported in creating in collaboration by practicing composition in their respective disciplines while working closely with each other in a structured, intimate setting. Any genre or style of music or dance may be explored. Projects will allow students to practice methodologies of collaboration and creation. Groups will evolve, and document procedures unique to their group. Students are expected to rigorously build upon and revise their work(s) by making active use of feedback sessions. Studying historic and contemporary dance and music collaborations in a variety of genres will give further context to our work. Weekly presentation of assignments, active participation in feedback sessions, identifying to the group what the next steps are, written reflection on sessions, and final showing will be required. Creating in collaboration trains students to articulate vision and intention while enabling the instructors to differentiate their aesthetic values from those of the students. It also trains students to collaborate with other disciplines during the creative process. The format allows class members to receive undivided focus on their processes, while also challenging them to assess their own abilities, create their own next steps, and discover how movement can inspire music as well as music inspiring dance. This tutorial provides a crucial central aspect of the creative arts: a space for ongoing feedback driven by the questions arising for the students, rather than specific aesthetic preferences or working practices. Investment in the work of one’s group is central, sharing responsibility for the development of others’ as well as one’s own work.
The Class: Format: tutorial; each student choreographer will work with a student composer; they will share responsibility choosing, creating, developing, completing, and presenting their projects
Limit: 10
Expected: 10
Class#: 3831
Grading: yes pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: 10% class participation, 20% written assignments, 70% composition assignments
Extra Info: not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites: permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences: composition students and student choreographers
Distributions: Division I
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
MUS 280 Division I DANC 280 Division I

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