Advanced classes meet for two hours three times per week. No outside work is required. Modern II and permission of instructor required. This course is designed for the most advanced ballet technicians in the department and requires an attitude of dedication that anticipates professionalism. The level of the class in general determines the material presented.
Advanced classes meet for two hours three times per week.
No outside work is required. All students are required to keep weekly journals, present classroom materials in a formal assignment and conduct a major research project to illustrate their command of kinesiological terminology and reasoning. Course offered every semester. The course will consider elements of support and gesture, direction, level, timing, part of the body moving, as well as effort dynamics, relationship to the environment, and kinespheric crystallizations, and ways of organizing the movement in the body. These methods of analysis are then applied to concrete movement situations selected and designed by the student ranging from sports situations to therapeutic situations to historical dances for reconstruction and performance.