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Movement for the Musical Stage (M4MS) is an exploration of dance in American musical theater. Students will analyze exemplars of musical theater; experience elements of dance and strategies of improvisation and composition; and apply choreographic tools and processes to create, individually and collaboratively, original movement studies and compositions. This is not a technique class, however, students will be moving, dancing, experimenting, creating and sharing throughout each session. No prior dance training required. Experimentation, wonder and joy, however, will be required!

In M4MS, students will use their bodies to communicate their thoughts and artistic choices through making dances. M4MS explores the body as an expressive, communicative instrument. The musical stage, for the purposes of this class, is the theatrical performance during which music (sound organized in time) is an integral and necessary element of the production, aka musical theater. We will focus primarily on the choreography of the body moving in time and space in relationship to the musical accompaniment, theme, plot and character.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all classes will be delivered via Zoom, an imperfect medium that will impact how we explore how we express and perceive the body moving in space, time and community. That said, all efforts will be made to acknowledge and address the challenges that this technology may provide and seek and exploit opportunities to experiment with M4MS on a mainly online platform. MFMS will be about dance in your spaces as well as the spaces that we will share on Zoom and through other electronic means of communication and learning.

And, one of the most important conditions of this class is to have fun learning and exploring.

Teacher: John-Mario Sevilla

Category: Fall 2020

Fall 2020-DANC-220-F-10052-Movement for the Musical Stage

Movement for the Musical Stage (M4MS) is an exploration of dance in American musical theater. Students will analyze exemplars of musical theater; experience elements of dance and strategies of improvisation and composition; and apply choreographic tools and processes to create, individually and collaboratively, original movement studies and compositions. This is not a technique class, however, students will be moving, dancing, experimenting, creating and sharing throughout each session. No prior dance training required. Experimentation, wonder and joy, however, will be required!

In M4MS, students will use their bodies to communicate their thoughts and artistic choices through making dances. M4MS explores the body as an expressive, communicative instrument. The musical stage, for the purposes of this class, is the theatrical performance during which music (sound organized in time) is an integral and necessary element of the production, aka musical theater. We will focus primarily on the choreography of the body moving in time and space in relationship to the musical accompaniment, theme, plot and character.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all classes will be delivered via Zoom, an imperfect medium that will impact how we explore how we express and perceive the body moving in space, time and community. That said, all efforts will be made to acknowledge and address the challenges that this technology may provide and seek and exploit opportunities to experiment with M4MS on a mainly online platform. MFMS will be about dance in your spaces as well as the spaces that we will share on Zoom and through other electronic means of communication and learning.

And, one of the most important conditions of this class is to have fun learning and exploring.