ideas – The Creative Process

Directed Teaching for Contemporary Dance Class

Reflections Taking this class last Spring semester at the Rpac was challenging due the distance that I had to walk everyday so taking it again in the department was exciting. This semester, I wasn’t just taking it as every other student in the class but as directed teaching under the auspices of my supervisor MomarContinue reading “Directed Teaching for Contemporary Dance Class”

Inevitable Circling:the works of dreams

Inevitable Circling: the work of dreams is a collaborative project by the second-year MFA cohort. This project is a recurrence, a spiraling return to origin and imagination. The collaborators come from a variety of nationalities, community origins, and cultural identities, to weave together their own imagined stories of the cosmos and creation. Through the performance,Continue reading “Inevitable Circling:the works of dreams”

The Mash Up

Creating a piece that has a beginning, a middle, and an end, all under a minute seems like a simple task but it is not. When it was mentioned in class that we needed to create a piece in less than a minute, I figured I will just be dancing till it’s a minute, thenContinue reading “The Mash Up”

The Space Within

I traveled last semester with the school of dance majors at Ohio University to Canada for a dance sharing at Concordia University, Montreal. At the sharing, one student spoke about how she had always done fast movements and was told by her professor to explore other tempos. She performed a slow piece which was interestingContinue reading “The Space Within”