Dance Courses
Spring 2024
Butoh Intensive- In Search of Dance of Darkness
Kota Yamazaki & Mina NishimuraCollective dance practice and healing as creative process
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching FellowDance Workshop Extension
Elena DemyanenkoDevising: Creation Stories
Jean RandichDifficult Dancing
Levi GonzalezEmbodied Love: An exploration in psychology and movement
Elena Demyanenko & Özge SavaşExperiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices
Elena DemyanenkoFinding Form: Dance
Dana ReitzGraduate Research in Dance
Dana ReitzGraduate Teaching Fellowship in Dance
Dana ReitzHyper Body!- Anarchic Ballet to Water Movement to African Dance to Floor Ninja to Body Architecture to Shining Zombie to Unknown Transformation…..
Kota YamazakiInternal Landscapes of the Listening Body
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching FellowMorning Butoh – A Practice of Renewing and Redefining Self
Mina NishimuraMovement Practice: Growing a body like a plant
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching FellowProduction and Design Projects
Michael GiannittiProduction and Design Projects
Michael GiannittiResisting Colonization: World Dance Histories
Levi GonzalezSewing Fundamentals
Richard MacPikeSewing Fundamentals
Richard MacPikeStage Management Process
Michael GiannittiSurvival Skills: Building a Career in the Performing Arts
Levi Gonzalez & Elena DemyanenkoThe Choreography of Poetics : The Poetics of Choreography
Levi Gonzalez & Camille GuthrieViewpoints Groundwork
Jennifer RohnWhat is Performing, Anyway?
Dana ReitzWhen Technology and the Human Body become Partners, Who Leads?
Cathy WeisWomen Rock: Dancing with the Erotic Feminine
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching Fellow
Fall 2023
Advanced Projects in Dance
Dana ReitzCo/Lab: Mediating Performance
Mariam GhaniDance Intensive: Embodiment, Technique, Improvisation, Performance
Levi GonzalezEmbodying Structure: Construction of the Corset
Richard MacPikeGhostly Body- The Art of Absence
Mina NishimuraGraduate Research in Dance
Dana ReitzGraduate Teaching Fellow Assistantship in Dance
Dana ReitzGrowing a body like a plant
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching FellowHyper Body! – Anarchic Ballet to Water Movement to African Dance to Floor Ninja to Body Architecture to Shining Zombie to Unknown Transformation…..
Kota YamazakiMovement Practice: Dreamtime into Daytime
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching FellowPerformance Project: BRUJX
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching FellowPerformance Project: Liminality Portal; Dancing Within and Beyond the Frame
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching FellowPerformance Project: Pressing Face Against That Window
Kota Yamazaki & Mina NishimuraPracticing Courage in Dance Making
Levi GonzalezThe Art of Rehearsing
Dana ReitzThe Art of Stage Design
Michael GiannittiThe Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place
Dana ReitzWhy Bodies Matter: An Introduction to Dance Studies
Levi Gonzalez
Spring 2023
A Celebration Service
Thomas Bogdan & Levi GonzalezA Celebration Service – The Dancer’s Ensembles
Thomas Bogdan & Levi GonzalezAdvanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians
Susan Sgorbati & Michael WimberlyAdvanced Projects in Dance
Dana ReitzAdvanced Projects in Dance
Dana ReitzAnalog Avatars
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching FellowAnother Audience: Performance with/for/of/by/through/between the More-than-Human
Nicole DaunicBallet Anarchy
Kota YamazakiButoh Intensive—In search of dance of darkness
Mina NishimuraDesign From Nature
Charles SchoonmakerDoorways into Solo Practice
Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching FellowElectroacoustic Band Workshop
Senem PirlerExperiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices
Levi GonzalezExplorations in Movement and Sound
Levi Gonzalez & Senem PirlerFinding Form: Dance
Dana ReitzGraduate Research in Dance
Dana ReitzGraduate Teaching Fellowship in Dance
Dana ReitzImprovisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians
Michael Wimberly & Susan SgorbatiListening to psyche: an interdisciplinary method of generating choreography
Parijat DesaiMaking Work: Aesthetics & Ideology
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching FellowMorning Butoh- A Practice of Renewing and Redefining Self
Mina NishimuraMovement Practice: (de)composing dance, choreographing breath
mayfield brooksMovement Practice: A Spell for Utopia
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Contact Improvisation Advanced
Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Let’s get Physical!
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Morning Chi, Waking Up the Body
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Orbiting the self and community
Parijat DesaiProduction and Design Projects
Michael GiannittiResponding to Site / Site Specific Dance
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching FellowThe Manner of Moving
Dana ReitzTopping It Off
Richard MacPikeWearable Paper Prints Experiment
Thorsten DennerlineWorking With Light
Michael Giannitti
Fall 2022
Advanced Projects in Dance
Levi GonzalezBeginning Contact Improvisation
Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching FellowBlack Music: Black Music Division – Reimagined
Michael WimberlyChoreographic Scores of Care: Artists, Contemporary Practices and Composition
Larissa Velez-JacksonCollaboration in Light, Movement and Clothes
Michael Giannitti, Dana Reitz & Charles SchoonmakerDance Intensive: Embodiment, Improvisation, Performance
Levi GonzalezDance Teleportation: Beyond Space and Time
Kota Yamazaki & Mina NishimuraGhostly Body- The Art of Absence
Mina NishimuraGraduate Research in Dance
Dana ReitzGraduate Teaching Fellow Assistantship in Dance
Dana ReitzMakers & Making/Performance in the 21st Century
Levi GonzalezMorning Ritual – A Practice of Renewing Self
Mina Nishimura & Kota YamazakiMovement Practice: Presence in Motion
Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: African Mandingo Traditional Dances
Aguibou Bougobali SanouMovement Practice: Ballet Anarchy
Kota YamazakiMovement Practice: Contemporary Dance using West African Dance and Daily Corporal Movements
Aguibou Bougobali SanouMovement Practice: Internal Landscapes of the Listening Body
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Morning Chi (Qi), Waking Up the Body
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Pleasure Practice
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Strengthening & Stretching
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Your Toolkit of Divergent Strategies
Larissa Velez-JacksonPatternmaking and Garment Construction
Richard MacPikePerformance Project: Somatic Savage
Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching FellowRedefining Scenography
Michael GiannittiStage Management Process
Michael GiannittiThe Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place
Dana ReitzThe Line of Clothing: Rendering for Costume Design
Charles SchoonmakerWhat is Performing, Anyway?
Dana ReitzWork, Work, Work
Charles Schoonmaker
Spring 2022
Advanced/Senior Projects in Dance
Levi GonzalezAll About Love: Advanced – Endurance Movement Practice
Elena DemyanenkoButoh Extension—In search of dance of darkness
Mina Nishimura & Kota YamazakiDance Workshop-Extension
Elena DemyanenkoEverything Class
Mina NishimuraExperiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices
Elena DemyanenkoFinding Form: Dance
Dana ReitzGraduate Research in Dance
Dana ReitzGraduate Teaching Fellow Assistantship in Dance
Dana ReitzIntroduction to Butoh—Who are you?
Mina Nishimura & Kota YamazakiMovement Practice: Beginning/Intermediate Dance Technique
Levi GonzalezMovement Practice: Contact Improvisation and Performative Presence
Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Jumping Squirrels
Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Puppance, an Advanced Movement Study of Puppetry and Dance
Maura Gahan, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Upriser Calisthenics!
Maura GahanPerformance Project: Activating the Ambiguous Zone
Maura Gahan, MFA Teaching FellowProjection _ Mapping _ Design
Sue ReesQuick Studies
Dana ReitzRe-thinking History: Critical Perspectives on Modern and Post-modern Dance
Levi GonzalezResisting the Stitch
Richard MacPikeStyle in Motion: Costume Design for Dance
Charles SchoonmakerThe Manner of Moving
Dana ReitzWhenever Wherever Festival: As a Celebration of Diverse Communities
Mina Nishimura & Kota Yamazaki
Fall 2021
Advanced Projects in Dance
Dana ReitzCoffee Clowns
Maura GahanContact Improvisation: Tools for Life
Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching FellowDance Intensive: Embodiment through Improvisation and Performance
Elena DemyanenkoDance on Film to TikTok Culture: Framing the Rendered Body
Elena DemyanenkoDance Teleportation: Beyond Space and Time
Mina Nishimura & Kota YamazakiEmbodying Structure: Construction of the Corset
Richard MacPikeFascinating Rhythm: Costume Design for Musicals
Charles SchoonmakerGhostly Body- The Art of Absence
Mina NishimuraGraduate Research in Dance
Dana ReitzGraduate Teaching Fellow Assistantship in Dance
Dana ReitzMovement Practice: Ballet Anarchy
Kota YamazakiMovement Practice: Non-Stop Moving
Kota YamazakiMovement Practice: The Body Speaking
Levi GonzalezMovement Practice: The Gentle Warrior
Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: The Principles of Allongé
Maura GahanNon-normative Bodies
Levi GonzalezOut of the Ordinary: Costume Design for Fantasy
Charles SchoonmakerPracticing Courage in Dance Making
Levi GonzalezSpatial Narratives
Dana ReitzStage Management Process
Michael GiannittiThe Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place
Dana Reitz
Spring 2021
Advanced/Senior Projects in Dance
Elena Demyanenko & Levi GonzalesArt Deco Style
Charles SchoonmakerBasic Audio Technology for Drama/Dance Productions
Curt WellsBeyond Butoh – A Body Not To Be Consumed
Mina Nishimura and Kota YamazakiCheap Art Dance Circus
Maura Gahan, MFA Teaching FellowDance Workshop
Levi GonzalezDance Workshop
Elena DemyanenkoExperiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices
Elena DemyanenkoFinding Form: Dance
Dana ReitzGraduate Research in Dance
Dana ReitzGraduate Teaching Fellow Assistantship in Dance
Dana ReitzImprovisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians
Susan SgorbatiImprovisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians
Michael WimberlyIntroduction to Butoh – Being and Transformation
Kota Yamazaki and Mina NishimuraMovement Practice: Foraging from Within: From Meditation to Movement
Maura Gahan, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Intermediate-Advanced Dance Technique
Mina Nishimura and Kota YamazakiMovement Practice: Introduction to Dance Improvisation
Levi GonzalezSewing Fundamentals
Richard MacPikeSewing Fundamentals
Richard MacPikeSun Ra: Space is the Place
Michael WimberlyThe Line of Clothing: Rendering for Costume Design
Charles SchoonmakerThe Manner of Moving
Dana ReitzWorking With Light
Michael GiannittiWorld Dance Histories: Practices, Problems, Possibilities
Levi Gonzalez
Fall 2020
Advanced Projects in Dance
Dana ReitzArtist’s Portfolio
Dana ReitzDance Teleportation: Beyond Space and Time
Kota YamazakiDance Workshop
Dana ReitzFirst-Year Dance Intensive
Elena DemyanenkoGraduate Research in Dance
Dana ReitzGraduate Teaching Fellow Assistantship in Dance
Dana ReitzMovement and Language: Colliding Bodies and Words
Levi GonzalezMovement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique
Mina NishimuraMovement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique
Mina NishimuraMovement Practice: Material for the Spine
Maura Gahan, MFA Teaching FellowNon-Stop Moving
Kota YamazakiPatternmaking: A Remote Class in Flat Pattern Development
Richard MacPikeQuick Studies
Dana ReitzThe Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place
Dana ReitzTuning Scores for the Present Moment
Maura Gahan, MFA Teaching FellowUp/Side/Down: Drawing = Movement
J Blackwell & Elena DemyanenkoWhy Bodies Matter: An Introduction to Dance Studies
Levi Gonzalez