Theater and Dance 119H - Dance Technique: Contact Improvisation

Contact Improvisation (CI) is a dance form practiced between two or more people that relies upon tactile communication between bodies. Through the modulation of muscle tone, rolling, sliding, and counterbalance, students learn to give and support weight, creating spontaneous compositions. The emergent nature of the form challenges students to listen and adapt to one another's physical impulses while tracking their own sensations through the use of interception, exteroception, and proprioception. Trust, cooperation, and full-body awareness are at the heart of this movement practice. This course is open to students with no prior dance experience. This course may be repeated for credit. A half-course. Two class meetings per week. 

Spring semester. Visiting lecturer Revlock.

How to handle overenrollment: THDA majors given priority. Instructor will choose students based on a balance of class years.

Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: This course will involve regular attendance and class participation, class discussion, reading, and possible viewing and writing assignments. Additional assignments may include work with peers outside of class, rehearsal or other artistic assignments, as well as physical or vocal performance work and/or visual, aural, and physical analysis as applicable. Attendance at performances outside of class may also be required.