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T D 312M Movement Improvisation
(Restricted to BA/BFA Dance majorsThis course introduces Contact Improvisation as a groundbreaking postmodern dance practice that focuses on spontaneous movement between dancers in physical contact. Students engage with touch, weight-sharing, and nonverbal communication to compose dance in the moment. Exercises emphasize the development of mind/body awareness, functional movement patterns, and improvisational modes of thinking. Rather than learning predetermined steps, students explore new possibilities for movement and creative process through embodied curiosity and focused play.
(Restricted to BA/BFA Dance majors)
T D 313E ACTING III
(Unique # 26665 is Restricted to BFA Acting majors)
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No Instructor Consent Required.
(Priority goes to BA/BFA Dance students & specific BA History/Literature/Dramaturgy students going into their Junior/Senior year. All other students may need to add to waitlist.)
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T D 320J Intro to Creating New Media
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No Instructor Consent Required.
(Restricted to UTeach Theatre students going into their Senior year.)
T D 332M CHOREOGRAPHY I
PREREQUISITE: T D 312N Movement Composition
(Priority goes to BA/BFA Dance students going into their Senior year. All other students Dance majors please add to waitlist.)
T D 332R DANCE PEDAGOGY
(Priority goes to BACHOREOGRAPHY I w/Leah Cox
The primary aim in Choreography I is to increase your capacities as a creator, collaborative leader, and artist citizen through experimentation and play. You will engage in open-ended and focused movement research sessions; create work alone and in collaboration; attend performances and watch works of dance online; read texts written by and inspiring to dance artists; and develop your dance literacy and fluency through informal writing and class discussions that foster creative and critical thinking. You’ll spend significant time exploring process and creating informal products to increase your confidence as an adventurous maker. This course is a required course for all dance majors and is ideally taken after having taken Improvisation and Composition. Graduate and undergraduate makers coming from other areas of performance creation (actors, playwrights, performance artists, etc.) are welcome to join the course and should reach out to the instructor for permission. This course includes a lab time.
CHOREOGRAPHY I w/Erica "EG" Gionfriddo: Dance For Camera
This course is an introductory experience to movement composition for the camera and, more broadly, for the screen. We will draw on our existing familiarity with cameras and screens and hone our understanding of crafting presence there. We will draw on our understanding of stage and live performance to identify intersections with the screen. We will interrogate the ways in which our body responds to witnessing and being witnessed by the lens of a camera and the lenses of our eyes. We will develop foundational technical skills in visual composition, shooting, and editing. We will practice recognizing those foundational elements by viewing and responding to a wide variety of dance films. Our explorations will manifest in the creation of your original dance film. Graduate and undergraduate makers coming from other areas of performance creation (actors, playwrights, performance artists, etc.) are welcome to join the course and should reach out to the instructor for permission.This course includes a lab time.
T D 332R DANCE PEDAGOGY
(Priority goes to BA/BFA Dance students going into their Senior year & BFA Dance Education students going into their Junior year. All other students please add to waitlist.)
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T D 352T FLOOR BARRE MEADOR, RACHEL
No Instructor Consent Required.
T D 352T HIP HOP DEVISING
Hip-Hop Devising is a creative course where students will engage with various forms of movement from the umbrella of street dance to compose a performance piece collectively. Through technical development and improvisation, students will immerse themselves in the study of dance as a mode of self-expression.Floor-Barre® is a gentle, highly effective, therapeutic method. Exercises are executed lying on the floor to focus inward, working muscles deeply and intelligently. Without the pressure of gravity. Floor-Barre® lengthens, corrects alignment and strengthens joints. Rachel is currently the only certified Floor-Barre® instructor in Texas and brings this cross training to students and professional dance artists of all levels.
No Instructor Consent Required.
T D 352T HIP HOP DEVISING
Students learn about freestyle and improvisation as performance through the study of various dance forms under the umbrella of Hip Hop (Wacking/Punking, Break dancing, grooves and funk styles etc.)
No Instructor Consent Required.
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Peers for Pride (PfP) is a peer facilitation program of the Gender and Sexuality Center. Students will take two courses during the academic year in partnership with the Gender for Women’s Gender Studies. During the program, students build applied theatre, critical analysis, and facilitation skills as they build the workshop “What Do Thriving Queer Communities Look Like?” Students create message scenes and activating scenes in the workshop to share skills and build space for conversation and accountability across LGBTQIA+ communities and with supporters of LGBTQIA+ communities. Through their facilitation and reflection after workshop facilitation, students continue to build a knowledge of performance-based social justice facilitation in higher education and of intersectional LGBTQIA+ realities.
Instructor Consent Required. This is the first course of a two-semester sequence.
To Apply: please fill out this online application and someone from the Gender and Sexuality Center’s Education Team will contact you in 1-3 business days to schedule a 30-60 minute informal meeting (via Zoom or in person) prior to course registration. This 1:1 allows for the teaching team to understand your learning goals, co-curate possible topics for the fall semester as we believe power sharing and knowledge are reciprocal, and for us to begin to connect with each other before class starts as community building is vital and central to the course ethics.
Application Deadline: For priority consideration, submit application by August 1st or prior to the first class of fall semester but there is no firm deadline.
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