WELCOME to the blog of the DA3257 Contemporary Choreography, Fall 2015 at DEREE- The American College of Greece.
The course introduces dancers to current approaches to
choreography paying particular attention to two equally important
processes: the creation of movement
material as well as the experience of moving.
The course focuses on solo and duet forms in order to consider the
interrelated processes of making, performing and reception. We explore a variety of stimuli and sources for choreography, but the emphasis is on the dancer/choreographer’s process as embodied
subjects who are paradoxically also the tool and the material through which the
dance forms is manifested and experienced. Dancers are encouraged to find an
emerging ‘voice’ as creative dance artist through discovery and
exploration. They are exposed to various
means to make and shape the experience of moving into shareable form. Emphasis
is given to developing an understanding of the relationship between the
evolution of a processes and the resulting form.
Over the course of the coming weeks we will share with you ‘thoughts
on the go’; reflections coming to you directly from the studio at the time of
our process. This will be complemented by
the participants’ individual pages, which will offer you thoughts, archival
material, and documentation of their individual process.
This semester, we are happy to be involved in a collaboration
with Kenyon College (Ohio) supported by the Global Course Connections. Students in both institutions will be working
‘virtually’ in a choreographic project exploring Body-Place-Identity as a means to investigate the manner in which
technology supports and expands on this. By pursuing the topic this way we aim
to achieve a double-pronged objective - the exploration of technology as a tool
for creative pedagogy, as well as technology as a very specific site in the
body-space nexus central to choreographic investigation.
The final results of the virtual duets will be presented as
a ‘live stream’ on December 17th 9.30 AM in USA/ 3.30 PM in GR . JOIN US!
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