DANC 282 - Dancing To Connect: Dance for Social Impact

Semester Offered: Fall
0.5 unit(s)

In this course, students learn ‘a dance for social impact’ methodology that enables youth, regardless of dance experience or background, to create and perform their own dance stories. Battery Dance’s Dancing to Connect program has been used as a tool for building bridges between communities, resolving conflict, and empowering marginalized populations across the United States and 70 countries. Instruction in the methodology takes place in two parts. In Part I, students learn the sequential activities that stimulate critical thinking and creative movement, by creating an original dance work that reveals individual stories. In Part II, students gain first hand-experience implementing the methodology with Poughkeepsie public school students that also yield new dance works. The culmination of this course is a final performance that showcases the works created. Miriam Mahdaviani.

Two 75-minute periods plus extra periods.

Course Format: INT