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There are spaces available in these dance classes

Students, Theater and Dance, Course and Registrar posted

Earn credit by moving!

At the heart of everything we do is motion. Learn to expand your awareness and create new possibility for yourself in these courses.

 

THDN 140-01  Improvisation as Composition

1.0 Credit

MW 1:15-3:15pm

Performance Lab, Trinity Commons 152

Prof. Peter Kyle

In this free-wheeling course where discovery of the unexpected is our aim, we embrace the idea of serious play alongside the specificity of embodiment. If we begin from choreographer Alwin Nikolais’ statement “All creatures, human and otherwise, move. Those who sense motion transpiring through their bodies, dance,” where we end up (in dance) is anyone’s guess! Open to all regardless of experience.

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THDN 150-01  Modern Dance I/II

.5 Credit

MW 11:30am-12:45pm

Performance Lab, Trinity Commons 152

Prof. Peter Kyle

In this practice-based course featuring live music, we focus on individual development and clarity of articulation. Explore technical and creative implications of time, space, shape, and motion through the body, supported by our imagination. How does the leg interact with the spine? What does sensing gravity do to the quality of our jump? When might an image or sound impact the way we execute a dynamic sequence or even a moment of stillness? Open to all regardless of experience.

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THDN 135-01  First Year and Second Year Dance Ensemble

.5 Credit

TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM

Trinity Commons 155

Prof. Peter Kyle

In this brand new course, we explore what dance can be in college and beyond. Building on our shared and diverse traditions we move together, create and perform together, investigate the possibility for connections across disciplines, across campus, and around Hartford and its environs. Open to all first and second year students, regardless of experience.