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DANCE 1: Contemporary Modern I: Liquid Flow

Students in Liquid Flow will participate in a dance and movement class that teaches the fundamentals of dance technique and addresses the way we already dance through the world. By discovering our own movement signatures, and becoming aware of other people's dance, motion, and energy in space, we will transform the way we inhabit flow states, from the dance studio, into everyday life, and ultimately onto the stage. Accompanied by a live DJ, students will develop technique, articulation, flexibility, and grace, to gain freedom while dancing, and mine dance's potential for social transformation and connection. We will draw from various movement traditions and practices, including contemporary modern, ballet, lyrical, Tai chi and yoga, with opportunities to remix other styles. Designed for all levels, we welcome beginners, student movers from diverse dance traditions, athletes, and advanced dancers, who desire more fluidity in their lives.
Terms: Aut, Win | Units: 1 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE, way_ce
Instructors: Hayes, A. (PI)

DANCE 11: Introduction to Dance Studies (CSRE 11, FEMGEN 11, TAPS 11)

This class is an introduction to dance studies and the complex meanings bodily performances carry both onstage and off. Using critical frames drawn from dance criticism, history and ethnography and performance studies, and readings from cultural studies, dance, theater and critical theory, the class explores how performing bodies make meanings. We will read theoretical and historical texts and recorded dance as a means of developing tools for viewing and analyzing dance and understanding its place in larger social, cultural, and political structures. Special attention will be given to new turns in queer and feminist dance studies. This course blends theory and embodied practice. This means as we read, research, and analyze, we will also dance. Students enrolled should expect to move throughout the quarter and complete a two-part choreographic research project. TAPS 11 has been certified to fulfill the Writing in the Major (WIM) requirement.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Instructors: Jones, T. (PI)

DANCE 17AX: Circa's Leviathan: Art of Circus Movement

Stanford Live will host Circa's internationally-renowned ensemble and a local cast of circus performers, dancers and young people to perform Leviathan, a world premiere circus event. This Arts Intensive class will provide six students experience in movement, dance, and/or circus arts the opportunity to study the legacy of circus and join the rehearsals to ultimately perform in Leviathan with Circa on Sept. 30 & Oct. 1, 2022. Working with Circa's Artistic team and ensemble performers, students will be required to participate in three weeks of rehearsal to learn the show and perform. Students will also work with Circa's Artistic Director, Yaron Lifschitz, during final rehearsals and in season. Aleta Hayes will offer a supportive curriculum exploring the artistic themes of collaboration, movement, and using art to express the human experience. Curriculum will also focus on the emotional and physical aspects of mounting a complex performance.Circus studies within the academic field of perf more »
Stanford Live will host Circa's internationally-renowned ensemble and a local cast of circus performers, dancers and young people to perform Leviathan, a world premiere circus event. This Arts Intensive class will provide six students experience in movement, dance, and/or circus arts the opportunity to study the legacy of circus and join the rehearsals to ultimately perform in Leviathan with Circa on Sept. 30 & Oct. 1, 2022. Working with Circa's Artistic team and ensemble performers, students will be required to participate in three weeks of rehearsal to learn the show and perform. Students will also work with Circa's Artistic Director, Yaron Lifschitz, during final rehearsals and in season. Aleta Hayes will offer a supportive curriculum exploring the artistic themes of collaboration, movement, and using art to express the human experience. Curriculum will also focus on the emotional and physical aspects of mounting a complex performance.Circus studies within the academic field of performance studies is a heavily under-researched area. The 19th century circus offers fascinating histories of race and gender in performance. The history of the circus is also a history of technology and coincides with the industrial revolution's persistent push to merge the human and the machine - the constant attempt to test and push against the boundaries of humanity's frailties and mortality. Contemporary circus draws from current cultural aesthetics, street vernacular, movement improvisation-- blurring lines between dance, theater and circus. We will look at pioneers of the genre including Cirque Du Soleil, Pickle Family circus, Archaos and more recent examples like the Tiger Lillies, the Lucent dossier Company and others. The art of circus is taken in an exciting new direction as 36 performers hang from a grid suspended in the air and propel themselves across the stage, tumbling, balancing and soaring together. The dramatic power and extreme skill of Circa's trademark acrobatics thrillingly expose the tension between the mass and the individual in this epic theatrical event that is at once deeply moving and physically stunning. In these complex times, Leviathan offers hope by celebrating what can be achieved when we work together. This action-packed show connects the local with the global and the emerging with the visionary and genuinely pushes boundaries in a powerful new circus production. Please note that Arts Intensive and initial rehearsals with Circa will take place September 6-23. Additional evening rehearsals will be scheduled and required leading up to the September 30 and October 1 performances following Arts Intensive period. Students must commit to the full intensive in addition to the final rehearsals and ultimate performances the week of September 24 to October 1.
Last offered: Summer 2022

DANCE 25: Young Choreographers Festival: From Studio to Stage

This course is designed to launch young choreographers and performance makers in the TAPS Department. At the end of Winter Quarter 2023-2024, students will have the opportunity to audition for the inaugural Young Choreographers Festival. Twelve choreographers will be selected to debut new works. To be considered, student choreographers must take a Fall or Winter choreography class, or receive mentorship from one of the Dance Faculty members. Choreographers, performers and production crew can enroll to receive credit for their participation in the festival. Bay Area Dance Exchange @ STANFORD: Saturday, April 6th opportunity to show excerpts and get feedback ? Meet Dance Faculty members and your fellow dance peers, from colleges and universities across the Bay Area. Proposed Festival Dates: Friday, April 19th and Saturday, April 20th. Proposed Festival Location: The Nitery Theater in Old Union
| UG Reqs: way_ce

DANCE 26: Dancing Theories of Race (CSRE 26, TAPS 26)

What can choreography and movement practice lend a comparative understanding of race studies? Pairing critical theory in race studies with dance performance, this course moves through ten units to scaffold a nuanced orientation toward race and dance that moves beyond questions of representation toward agency, animation, and action. Each week centers one key dance performance alongside one formative text in comparative race studies to allow for close-analysis and critical interpretation, featuring choreographers such as Alvin Ailey, Trisha Brown, Lenora Lee, and Ralph Lemon alongside theorists like Frantz Fanon, Cedric Robinson, Edward Said, Patricia Collins, and Jose Muñoz. Through interdisciplinary modes of knowing, we will pair text and movement through the dancing body to (re)consider the social, historical, and political formations of race and its presentation on and off stage.
Last offered: Autumn 2022

DANCE 27: Faculty Choreography

Collaborative building, rehearsal, filming and editing of unique Spring QTR dance films by TAPS/Dance Faculty choreographers. Culminating films will be screened May 27, 28 & 29, as a TAPS Main Stage production. Casting by Audition & Invitation according to the needs of each choreographer. For detailed project descriptions, casting requirements, and full rehearsal schedules, contact instructors directly. Choreography by Diane Frank (diane.frank.dance@gmail.com); Choreography by Aleta Hayes (ahayes1@stanford.edu): Choreography by Katie Faulkner (khfaulk@stanford.edu). Dancers from diverse dance and movement backgrounds are encouraged to participate. Once cast, enroll under the instructor's individual section for 1-2 units.
Last offered: Spring 2021 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE, way_ce | Repeatable for credit

DANCE 27H: Faculty Choreography: Aleta Hayes (AFRICAAM 27H)

Creation, rehearsal, performance of faculty choreography by Senior Lecturer Aleta Hayes. Casting by audition/invitation.
Last offered: Spring 2023 | Repeatable for credit (up to 99 units total)

DANCE 27R: Faculty Choreography: Raissa Simpson

Through collaborative and dialogic processes, this course will investigate the real or perceived to be real systems of power as it relates to race, class and gender. Fall/Flight is an intercultural choreographic invention investigating the episteme of aerial dance, contemporary modern exercises - and the questioning of social constructs - as it relates to the body. An audition workshop will take place Jan 9 and 11. For questions please email raiisas@stanford.edu.
Last offered: Winter 2023 | Repeatable 3 times (up to 6 units total)

DANCE 27S: Faculty Choreography: amara tabor-smith

Working in collaboration with the students, amara tabor-smith will create a dance-theater performance piece celebrating the life and work of the prolific writer, educator, feminist and social activist, bell hooks.
Last offered: Spring 2023 | Repeatable for credit (up to 99 units total)

DANCE 29: Roots Modern I

In this course students will be introduced to a series of contemporary dance warm ups and dance combinations that are drawn from a broad range of modern dance techniques, somatic practices and dance traditions of the African diaspora with a particular focus on Afro Brazilian, Afro Cuban and Haitian dance forms. No prior dance experience is required. Each class will be comprised of a series of warm up exercises and fun dance combinations that express the connection between western contemporary technique with dance traditions of the African diaspora. Dance combinations will consist of dynamic movement patterns that condition the body for strength, flexibility, endurance, musicality and coordination. Through these exercises students learn how to become expressive and dynamic movers and gain a deeper appreciation of the multiple expressions of what is known as contemporary or modern dance.
Last offered: Autumn 2020
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