DAN 188 - Dance Improvisation

1. Build an awareness of dance’s basic elements (i.e., time, shape, space, motion, dynamics) first exploring then evolving to a more confident presentational sense.
2. Recognize improvisation as “instant choreography” and “instant performance” and the immediacy this implies. Student will receive a premise trusting his/her body and subconscious mind to define it without judgment - and later subject to conscious evaluation.
3. Use improvisation in alternative performing spaces, relating improvisations to these new environments.
4. Further use improvisation in the development of more facile and creative partnering skills.
5. Combine the use of extra-dance stimuli - props, costumes, sound, etc., as improvisational catalysts.