Course Outline

Course Outline

*All blog entries due on Sunday at midnight for the previous week of classes.

Week 1

3/31 Sensory Meditation, Syllabus and Class Protocols

Reading: Natural Intelligence, Chapter 1, Susan Aposhyan

4/2 Embodied Relationships

Reading: Natural Intelligence, Chapter 3, Susan Aposhyan

Don’t Forget to Blog!

Week 2

4/7 Authentic Movement Introduction, Project Overview

Reading: Authentic Movement; An Introduction by Daphne Lowell,
& Natural Intelligence, Chapter 2, Susan Aposhyan

4/9 Authentic Movement Practice

Reading: A Description of Authentic Movement by Janet Adler

Blog entries due midnight on Sunday!

Week 3 * Topics due!

4/14 Water Evolution

Reading: BodyStories, Day 5, Andrea Olsen
& Body and Earth, Day 3, Andrea Olsen

4/16 Evolution to Standing

Reading: BodyStories, Day 6, Andrea Olsen
& Body and Earth, Day 4, Andrea Olsen

Did ya blog?

Week 4

4/21 5 Fundamental Actions and Endpoints

Reading: Natural Intelligence Chapter 4, 60 – 73.


4/23 Alexander Technique

Reading: Body Awareness in Action, Frank Pierce Jones.

Bloggerrific!

Week 5

4/28 Guest teacher Doug MacKenzie Fluids, Organs

Reading: Natural Intelligence, Chapter 5, 105 – 128.

4/30 Body Systems

Reading: Natural Intelligence, Chapter 5, 128 – 148.

Blog entries due Sunday at midnight!

Week 6 * Project Check In!

5/5 Contact Improvisation

Reading: Some Thoughts on Improvisation, Yvonne Rainier
& Looking at Movement as Culture: Contact Improvisation to Disco, Cynthia Jean Cohen

5/7 Contact Improvisation

Reading: 10,000 Jams Later: Contact Improvisation in Canada, 1974-95., Peter Ryan & Sense, Meaning and Perception in Three Dance Cultures, Cynthia Jean Cohen.

Blog, Blog, Blog


Week 7

5/12 Contact Improvisation

Reading: Experiencing the Body, Cynthia Novack.

5/14 Contact Improvisation Jam!

Reading: Contact Quarterly, Read any article! Found in periodicals in Odegaard Library

Blog for the fun of it!

Week 8

5/19 Skinner Releasing Technique

Reading: Releasing into Process, Chapter 3, The History of the Skinner Releasing Technique, Bridget Iona Davis. & You can’t make a leaf grow by stretching it, Kirsty Alexander

5/21 Skinner Releasing Technique

Reading: Releasing Into Process, Chapter 4, Description of the Skinner Releasing Technique, Bridget Iona Davis & Unraveling the Dance, Kirsty Alexander

Blog entries due before midnight!

Week 9

5/26 Butoh

Reading: Embodying the Spirit, The Body Concrete, Chapter 3, Joan Laage

5/28 Butoh Guest teacher – Joan Laage

Reading: Embodying the Spirit, The Body Ethereal, Chapter 4, Joan Laage & Hijikata Tatsumi, The Words of Butoh, Kurihara Nanako

Contact Improv field notes due!

Can’t wait to read you blog entries after this class.

Week 10

6/2 Ecstatic Dance,
* Journals due!

6/4 Final Presentations

Guess what!...Blog

Final Period

Final Presentations: