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DANCE 56: Ballet Repertory: Swan Lake Recalibrated

Series of directed studio practices focusing on the creation of a formal choreography to be integrated in the Dance Division repertory and performed during the Division Winter Concert. The course is designed to engage students in acquiring interpretive and expressive skills working one on one with a choreographer, increase adaptability of artistic technique and style, develop knowledge of movement possibilities and artistic voices, and cultivate presence and authority as performers. The new work, Swan Lake Recalibrated, will be a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional ballet, created by choreographer Alex Ketley. Students recruited via audition.nnContact: aketley@stanford.edu

Last offered: Autumn 2013 | Repeatable 4 times (up to 4 units total)

DANCE 57: Dance Repertory: Hope Mohr/Denae Hannah

Choreographer Hope Mohr/Denae Hannah will set contemporary work from her company repertory as part of an alumni commission initiative . Rehearsal Autumn Quarter. Culminate in performance on Winter Quarter concert. Participation by audition and/or invitation (Rehearsal Director: Diane Frank)

Last offered: Winter 2013 | Repeatable for credit

DANCE 58: Beginning Hip Hop

Steps and styling in one of America's 21st-century vernacular dance forms. May be repeated for credit.

Terms: Aut, Sum | Units: 1 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE, way_ce | Repeatable for credit

Instructors: Reddick, R. (PI)

DANCE 59: Intermediate-Advanced Hip-Hop

Steps and styling in one of America's 21st-century vernacular dance forms. May be repeated for credit.

Terms: Aut, Win | Units: 1 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE, way_ce | Repeatable for credit

Instructors: Reddick, R. (PI)

DANCE 60: The Evolution of Hip Hop and the Dance Stage: From Broadway to Hollywood and MTV

The repertory of Hip Hop history through steps and choreography. May be repeated for credit.

Last offered: Spring 2013

DANCE 63: Beginning Dance and Dance Making

This Choreography course is designed to expose students to fundamental techniques and approaches used in the creation of dance. All of the basic elements of dance composition will be creatively touched upon including: style, form, theme and variation, narrative versus abstract methods of expression, elements of time, quality and use of space, motif and repetition. These different tools will be illustrated and the options and restrictions of each will be explored. Practical assignments will culminate in a performance of work generated and arranged by the instructor and students. The course is recommended for all students interested in the artistic process in a creative situation.

Terms: Spr | Units: 1 | Repeatable for credit

Instructors: Moses, R. (PI)

DANCE 65: Construction Site

This movement-based introductory course to site-specific dance/performance art investigates one of humanity's basic drives: to build and express relationship to the external environment. Using their bodies as sensory information-gathering tools , student will examine the qualitative aspects of various sites, indoor and outdoor. Using skills/knowledge acquired through studio work supplemented by readings/ concerts/videos & films of site specific works, students will create short culminating projects/works in physical conversation with campus sites, building upon both the concrete and imaginative dimensions of place.

Last offered: Spring 2014

DANCE 67: Being S(c)ene: Dance, Fashion and Art as Exhibition

In everyday life we are constantly moving from the subjects of the public, to its objects--from seeing to being seen. This performance- creation, interactive seminar explores everyday/pedestrian movement as articulated through the language of dance. Looking through the interpretive lenses of fashion, dance and visual representation, we critically consider how we observe others and ourselves in the world, and how we respond performatively or unconsciously. In addition to seminars and rehearsals, we will host guest lectures by curators, artists and professors: incorporate fieldwork research in museums as sites of display, and discuss scholarly texts and films. A performance installation with dance, fashion and visual display will ensue in the galleries at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford, in conjunction with the Fall 2013 exhibition, Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video.

Last offered: Autumn 2013

DANCE 69: The Athletic Body in Dance: Conditioning to Aesthetics

This course provides instruction in the fundamentals of the goal-oriented body in the artistic practice. Emphasis will be placed on suing sports movement as a base for training in dance.

Last offered: Autumn 2012 | Repeatable for credit (up to 1 units total)

DANCE 100: Dance, Movement and Medicine: Immersion in Dance for PD

Combining actual dancing with medical research, this Cardinal Course investigates the dynamic complementary relationship between two practices, medicine and dance, through the lens of Parkinson's disease (PD), a progressive neurological disease that manifests a range of movement disorders. "Dance for PD" is an innovative approach to dancing --and to teaching dance --for those challenged by PD. Course format consists of: 1. Weekly Lecture/Seminar Presentation: Partial list of instructors include Ms. Frank, Dr. Bronte-Stewart and other Stanford medical experts & research scientists, David Leventhal (Director, "Dance for PD") and Bay Area "Dance for PD" certified master teachers, film-maker Dave Iverson, Damara Ganley, and acclaimed choreographers Joe Goode, Alex Ketley, Judith Smith (AXIS Dance). 2. Weekly Dance Class: Stanford students will fully participate as dancers, and creative partners, in the Stanford Neuroscience Health Center's ongoing "Dance for Parkinson's" community dance class for people with PD. This Community Engaged Learning component provides opportunity to engage meaningfully with people in the PD community. Dancing together weekly, students will experience firsthand the embodied signature values of "Dance for PD" classes: full inclusion, embodied presence, aesthetic and expressive opportunity for creative engagement, and community-building in action. A weekly debriefing session within Friday's class time will allow students to integrate seminar material with their movement experiences.nnnNO PRE-REQUISITES: No prior dance experience required. Beginners are welcome.

Terms: Spr | Units: 1-2 | Repeatable for credit

Instructors: Bronte-Stewart, H. (PI) ; Frank, D. (PI)

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