Dance/Movement Fundamentals
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This class is an introduction to the basic principles of contemporary and ballet practices. The fundamentals class will develop skills basic to all movement studies, such as dynamic alignment through coordination and integration of the neuro/skeletal/muscular system, strength, balance, and basic spatial and rhythmic awareness. Students may enter this yearlong course in the second semester only with permission of the instructor.
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Related News: Dance
- The New York Times profiles choreographer Pam Tanowitz MFA '98
Theatre and Dance faculty member Dan Hurlin wins Rome Prize- Harlem World lauds Paul Taylor Company dancer and preservationist Carolyn Adams '65
- Choreographer Pam Tanowitz MFA '98 named Hodder Fellow
- Choreographer Jennifer Monson '83 profiled in The New York Times
MFA Dance Program courses
- African Dance
- Anatomy in Action
- Anatomy Seminar
- Ballet
- Beginning Improvisation: Embodied Awareness
- Composition
- Contact Improvisation
- Dance History
- Dance Making
- Dance Meeting
- Dance/Movement Fundamentals
- Dance Training Conference
- Experimental Improvisation Ensemble
- Feldenkrais: Awareness Through Movement®
- Flamenco
- Improvisation
- Improvisation: Inside Out
- Labanotation/Repertory
- Lighting Design and Stagecraft for Dance
- Media in Performance
- Modern and Post-Modern Practice
- Music for Dancers
- Performance Project: Cross Reference, The Body and Gesture
- Performance Project: Martha Graham’s ‘Primitive Mysteries’
- RumbaTap
- Senior Seminar
- Teaching Conference
- Yoga
Vera Wang '71 addresses Class of 2013; photos, videos, media clips available on Commencement site