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Rigorous daily practice that will challenge and expand students¿ understanding of and perspective on the art form. Focus on strengthening technique, exploring ballet as an expressive form and performing art, and developing an artistic voice.

Interested in putting your hands in the clay? In this hands-on course, dancers will investigate and re-choreograph some of Robert Moses' signature works. Robert and long-term dancers in his company, Robert Moses' Kin, will collaboratively guide students in intensive studio sessions as they revisit the significant issues, techniques, and directions in such seminal works as Word of Mouth, The Soft Sweet Smell of Firm Warm Things, and Helen. Elements used to create the works will be re-investigated and re-framed through the lens of the students' experience and perspective. Students will coordinate a showcase of excerpts of their remolded choreography.nnThis class will utilize the language of Robert Moses' repertory to train dancers in the basics of Moses' movement vocabulary. Students will improve and reinforce technical proficiency, artistic range, and performance skills. In addition, students will expand their movement range and vocabulary in a manner that demonstrates an increase in strength, agility, flexibility, and endurance through classical ballet and contemporary modern dance techniques.

This course is a choreographic workshop and performance seminar, inspired by the abstract expressionist art found in the Anderson Collection at Stanford set to open in fall 2014 and the Cantor exhibit of Robert Frank¿s photography on view also in fall 2014. The period between the 1950¿s and early 1960¿s was a rich time for painting, dance, and conceptual and interdisciplinary art movements. Through this course we will consider how contemporary dancers/performers might express these ideas as a direct response to the impulses seen and felt in the art of this period. We will create a site-specific dance performance and runway show throughout the exhibition spaces in celebration of the opening of the Anderson Collection building at Stanford. nStudents will be encouraged to identify and investigate similar currents in contemporary dance, music, fashion, and visual art, integrating the historical and the contemporary into the choreography and performance. Students should be prepared to present, justify, and challenge what they see as viable artistic content from their contemporary world of dance, fashion, art, and music. nThe course will include studio practice in the galleries, guest lectures from Stanford faculty, curatorial staff, and outside experts in fashion and music, as well as field trips to San Francisco. Culminating performances will be presented during the fall quarter, at the program showcase, in collaboration with the Robert Frank exhibition at Cantor Arts Center and coinciding with the grand opening of the Anderson Collection.

This new dance will be episodic, consisting of both solo/duo sections and small group sections, layered. Material will be developed Autumn quarter, performed in a mid-week showing of faculty/student works in an informal concert setting, 9th week of Winter quarter. nThe work will be physically & technically demanding. Students may enroll pending casting, by audition and/or invitation.

Students from diverse dance styles (ballet to hip-hop to contemporary) participate in the dance-making/remix process and collaborate with musicians, visual artists, designers and spoken word artists, to co-create multidisciplinary fully produced production and installation. Open to student artists of different genres, styles, disciplines and levels. By audition and/or discussion with the instructor.

Students who participate in the Chocolate Head-Space will engage in a dance and music activities and collaborative crowd-sourced performance on the Stanford campus. A mobile app using GPS data would be implemented to fellow Chocolate Heads students-- prompting them to engage, perform and collaborate with others in that space. Students( and audiences) would be encouraged to learn a piece (or multiple pieces with friends) and record themselves performing in a different places on campus. No prior experience is required.

Lyric Contemporary appeals to the creative mover with little or no experience in dance and will focus on developing a fluid coordinated dancer. The work in this course does not assume a technical or conceptual proficiency in any dance form. It does presume you have some interest in dance forms including Jazz, Hip Hop, Ballet, and Modern or at least have a strong interest in one or more of the arts. This class deals with the notion of movement as a mode of expression. We will try to find ways through movement to render as clearly as possible concepts central to the human experience.

Beginning Modern Dance appeals to the beginning mover with little or no experience in dance and will focus on developing a coordinated and technical dancer. We will use exercises from Limon, Cunningham, and Ballet techniques in training, but will not focus on any one-dance form. . This class deals with the notion of movement as a mode of expression. We will try to find ways through movement to render as clearly as possible concepts central to the human experience.

This introductory dance course combines the fundamentals of contemporary dance technique and exercises from various movement practices, such as yoga and Tai chi. Liquid Flow implies the continuum from the dance of the everyday to the studio to the stage. Students will develop articulation, flexibility and "grace", learn contemporary, popular and classic dance vocabulary, and gain freedom dancing with others. Designed for beginners, we welcome student movers from diverse dance traditions, non-dancers, athletes, and more advanced dancers, who desire fluidity in their daily life, from thought to action.