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Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TU 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 6

This course is designed to assist graduate students with the research and development of their new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. In class, they show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in their creative processes. Though the class meets only once a week,

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 6

This course is designed to assist graduate students with the research and development of their new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. In class, they show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in their creative processes. Though the class meets only once a week, students

Graduate Seminar — DAN5408B.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This topic driven seminar focuses on current developments within the field of dance and performance. Students will learn to think of dance and performance through their own embodied experiences and by placing dance, movement, and performance in wider disciplinary, cultural and global contexts.

Graduate Teaching Fellowship in Dance — DAN5304.01

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4

Graduate Teaching Fellows in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants. In consultation with their academic advisors and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly; the courses they develop and teach are listed in the curriculum. All Teaching Fellows

Graduate Teaching Fellowship in Dance — DAN5304.01

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4

Graduate Teaching Fellows in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants. In consultation with their academic advisors and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly; the courses they develop and teach are listed in the curriculum. All Teaching Fellows bring

Individualized Lab — DAN5403B.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits:
This course allows students to self-design course work by combining topics and approaches from the Practice LABs and the Study LABs to meet required hours. The LABS take the form of a series of workshops, and include both lecture/discussion and studio formats. Credits to be determined between faculty and students.

Individualized Practice — DAN5400B.01, section 1

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits:
Through mentor approved independent work, students develop and schedule their own weekly creative practices using student-initiated resources and/or classes. Requirements include meeting with practice mentors for scheduled one-on-ones, creating an archive of the experiences, and locating innovative ways to share both resources and experiences of the term with classmates at the

Individualized Practice — DAN5400B.02, section 2

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits:
Through mentor approved independent work, students develop and schedule their own weekly creative practices using student-initiated resources and/or classes. Requirements include meeting with practice mentors for scheduled one-on-ones, creating an archive of the experiences, and locating innovative ways to share both resources and experiences of the term with classmates at the

Performative Methodologies — DAN5404B.01, section 1

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This interdisciplinary class looks at the relationship between the visual arts, performance and dance. In particular, we will focus on the influence of collage across disciplines by finding common methods and themes, such as juxtaposition, chance and appropriation. We will trace the history of collage in the visual arts and then investigate its impact on other fields, including

Performative Methodologies — DAN5404B.02, section 2

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This interdisciplinary class looks at the relationship between the visual arts, performance and dance. In particular, we will focus on the influence of collage across disciplines by finding common methods and themes, such as juxtaposition, chance and appropriation. We will trace the history of collage in the visual arts and then investigate its impact on other fields, including

Portfolio 1 — DAN5406B.01, section 1

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 6
During this course, students will begin to reflect, gather, articulate, and compose their extensive body of professional work in the field of dance by organizing their work into a text which will be bound. The portfolio is developed to include a thoughtful and critically developed artist statement, current CV, written narrative of their work, press public reviews, and a list

Portfolio 1 — DAN5406B.02, section 2

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 6
During this course, students will begin to reflect, gather, articulate, and compose their extensive body of professional work in the field of dance by organizing their work into a text which will be bound. The portfolio is developed to include a thoughtful and critically developed artist statement, current CV, written narrative of their work, press public reviews, and a list

Practice Lab — DAN5401B.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits:
Students are given opportunities to deepen their understanding of and relationship to movement practices.  The LABS take the form of a series of classes and/or workshops and can include both lecture/discussion and studio classroom formats. The LABS create an opportunity for students to be in direct dialogue with a variety of practioners, points of view and approaches to

Studies Lab — DAN5402B.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits:
Where and how does study happen? What is the value of study and how do we recognize that value? What does it mean to think of our study of dance and performance as an encounter and how might that thinking offer up a chance for one to pay attention differently? Is it different than research?  Or, as Kevin Quashie suggests, does it perhaps re-situate the activities of

Study Group 1 — DAN5405B.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
What does studying together offer us critically that studying alone might not? Ariella Azoulay refers to studying with companions as a method of unlearning. What are the shifts experienced when you are studying with and alongside others? What conditions might group study provide that allow different questions and understandings to emerge? If, as Irit Rogoff states, “All

Thesis Practice — DAN5407B.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Students work to develop definitions, resources and methodologies to support varied approaches to thesis practices to include research into practice, performance as research, practice into research, practice-based research, bibliography as method, citational fieldings and research as action.  The course guides students through reflective, critical processes during one-on