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 27H: Faculty Choreography: Aleta Hayes (AFRICAAM 27H)
Creation, rehearsal, performance of faculty choreography by Senior Lecturer Aleta Hayes. Casting by audition/invitation.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
(up to 99 units total)
Instructors:
Hayes, A. (PI)
DANCE 27R: Faculty Choreography: Raissa Simpson
Tailored in collaboration with the students, Raissa Simpson will direct a multidisciplinary dance piece for performance. Casting is by invitation or audition only. For questions please email raiisas@stanford.edu.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 6 units total)
Instructors:
Simpson, R. (PI)
DANCE 45: Freestyle Lab: Improv Strategies from Contemporary to Club (AFRICAAM 45)
In this dance improvisation class, we will develop techniques and practices to cultivate an improvisational practice in dance and domains beyond. This class is an arena for physical and artistic exploration to fire the imagination of dance improvisers and to promote collaborative and interactive intelligence. We will draw upon dance styles and gestural vocabularies, including contemporary dance, hip-hop, vogue and more. Students will learn how to apply these improvisational dance ideas to generate and innovate across disciplines. Accompanied by a live DJ, students will practice listening with eyes, ears, and our whole bodies. Open to students from all dance, movement, and athletic backgrounds. Beginners welcome.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Hayes, A. (PI)
DANCE 46: Social Dance I
Introduction to non-competitive social dance. The social dances found in today's popular culture include 3 kinds of swing, 3 forms of waltz, tango, salsa, bachata, cha-cha and nightclub two-step. The course also includes tips for great partnering, enhancing creativity, developing personal style, stress reduction, musicality, and the ability to adapt to changing situations. The emphasis on comfort, partnering and flexibility will enable students to dance with partners whose experience comes from any dance tradition. If the class is filled, register to get on the waitlist.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| UG Reqs: way_ce
| Repeatable
12 times
(up to 12 units total)
Instructors:
Powers, R. (PI)
DANCE 108: Hip Hop Choreography: Hip Hop Meets Broadway
What happens when Hip Hop meets "Fosse", "Aida", "Dream Girls" and "In the Heights"?The most amazing collaboration of Hip Hop styles adapted to some of the most memorable Broadway Productions.This class will explore the realm between Hip Hop Dance and the Broadway Stage. Infusing Acting thru dance movement and exploring the Art of Lip Sync thru Hip Hop Dance styles.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| UG Reqs: way_ce, WAY-CE
| Repeatable
9 times
(up to 9 units total)
Instructors:
Reddick, R. (PI)
DANCE 121: Creative and Contemplative Movement: Intro to Qigong (LIFE 121)
In the class, students will be introduced to qigong as moving meditation. Qigong, loosely translated as energy cultivation, is a branch of Traditional Chinese Medicine based on the principles of Buddhism and Taoism. It can integrate the mind and body and cultivate awareness of the present moment. In this class, we will conceptualize qigong through the lenses of both creativity and contemplation and practice it as a slow dance-meditation. Students will learn exercises based on the Yoqi Six Phases of Qi Flow, developed by Marisa Cranfill, as well as engage in creative, improvisational movement. Readings to support the practice include writings by contemporary scholars and practitioners, and articles about the most recent evidence-based research. Assignments include short written reflections as well as solo and collaborative creative projects.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Otalvaro, G. (PI)
DANCE 122: Moving the Message: Reading and Embodying the Works of Audre Lorde (AFRICAST 202, CSRE 125, ENGLISH 287, FEMGEN 201)
In this course, we will spend time reading, discussing and embodying the writings of poet, essayist, philosopher and activist, Audre Lorde. A prolific writer and thinker, Lorde's work focuses on practices rooted in the role of self-care in revolutionary politics, rescuing ourselves and each other from hegemonic forces, and building the components necessary for a life of liberatory politics. Through a process grounded in movement, and dialogue we will explore how the words of Audre Lorde can literally move us towards freedom and self recovery. This course is presented by the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, IDA.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Smith, A. (PI)
DANCE 123: Choreography: Hot Mess & Deliberate Failure as Practice
A dance class in how we become the worst dancer possible. The foundation of this class has many parts. One is that, in almost every respect the way we gain insight into anything is to understand more clearly its polarity. As a class we purposely explore chaos, failure, and "bad" dancing, with the hope that then we will have a greater chance to understand and refine our personal notions around beauty. The class also acknowledges that creativity is at times born from the loss of control. Instead of looking at this idea obliquely, Hot Mess looks at this directly by having dancers confront a number of movement and vocal prompts that are literally impossible to execute in any good way. This class embraces and celebrates destabilization, with all the exuberance, fear, and learning that can happen when we accept and practice being lost.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Ketley, A. (PI)
DANCE 128: Afro Contemporary Dance - Mixed Level (AFRICAAM 128)
In this course students will be introduced to a series of Afro-contemporary dance warm ups and dance combinations that are drawn from a broad range of dance traditions of the African diaspora with a particular focus on Afro Brazilian, Afro Cuban and Haitian dance forms, modern dance techniques, and somatic movement practices. Our study of these dance disciplines will inform the movement vocabulary, technical training, class discussions, and choreography we experience in this course. Students will learn more about the dances and rhythms for the Orishas of Brazil and Cuba, and the Loa of Haiti. Dance combinations will consist of dynamic movement patterns that condition the body for strength, flexibility, endurance, musicality and coordination. Through this approach to our warm ups and class choreography, we will deepen our analysis and understanding of how African diaspora movement traditions are inherently embedded in many expressions of the broadly termed form known as contemporary modern dance.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| UG Reqs: way_ce
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 3 units total)
Instructors:
Smith, A. (PI)
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