DAN 107 CC: MOVEMENT THINKING

A movement improvisation class in which the body/mind connection is assumed, and constantly examined through exercises that focus on community, weight, gravity, connection, and momentum. In this practice, weight becomes a metaphor. The gravity of our world’s problems can be represented by our relationship to gravity in the studio. How can we support each other literally and figuratively? How can we relinquish self to community? How can we accept difference? Students learn to pay a deeper and more steady attention, to time, to space, to each other, to themselves. Why do we move the way we do? Where do our movement habits come from? Are these habits representative of the way we think/feel about ourselves? Do we present to the world, as bodies, what we wish to present? Which of our habits are societally constructed responses, baked in by experience, and how resistant are we to change? Students move all class, every class, write about their experiences, and read works by artists, dance makers, dance thinkers, philosophers, and neuroscientists.