Dance

Students in this course will explore the basic techniques of choreographing dance and put into practice teaching movement to their peers. Students will have opportunities to compose a variety of different movement styles. This course primarily used experiential learning to help students see the ways in which choreography fits into their personal career.  

This course exposes students to environmental mediation in art-making by exploring site-sensitive instillation, performance, writing, etc. The application of technology to exhibition/performance is encouraged.

Students explore the combined role of the body-mind in art making practices. Embodied research helps students examine their artwork in the context of human ecology. Students establish a strong home-based studio practice during non-resident periods to produce a semester portfolio, which includes individual and collaborative assignments, and self-designed projects. Online Critical Response Process included. Reinhardt provides a research mentor.

Students explore the combined role of the body-mind in art making practices. Embodied research helps students examine their artwork in the context of human ecology. Students establish a strong home-based studio practice during non-resident periods to produce a semester portfolio, which includes individual and collaborative assignments, and self-designed projects. Online Critical Response Process included. Reinhardt provides a research mentor.

Students explore the combined role of the body-mind in art making practices. Embodied research helps students examine their artwork in the context of human ecology. The course involves Intense creative practice with close mentoring. Students explore content, form, and materials in individual and collaborative assignments, and self-designed projects. Students demonstrate a cohesive conceptual and technical approach to art-making. Critical Response Process is included. 

In this course, students will participate in a teaching residency, either on campus at Reinhardt University, or through an alternate campus location, proposed and approved in advance by the professor. Students will complete self-assessments, collect anonymous student assessments, and be assessed by the professor on their quality of teaching and proficiency in communicating dance in class.     

This course explores the many interactions between dance/movement, and digital or media-based representations of it. The class will focus on application of skills and techniques, case studying specific real-world examples of digital dance or dance in the media. Students will pay close attention to both experiential “sides” of digital dance and dance in the media - the audience/consumer, and the creator/artist. Semester-long course — offered in the fall semester. 

This class explores dance as a reflection of culture and as an art form from the earliest societies to the present. Concert and Global dances will be observed closely as communication, art forms and commercial entertainment. Throughout the course students will analyze dance forms from both video and written material. Cultural influence and the contributions of individual artists will be investigated. This course specifically will concentrate on historically relevant choreographers and their processes, allowing the graduate level choreographers in the class to learn from, and possibly borrow concepts and practices of choreographers who came before them. 

This course emphasizes the essentially collaborative nature of performance practice. It offers the opportunity to experiment with new kinds of collaborative relationships and to observe, create, and discuss the choreographer's role in the transformation of ideas into performance works. Through collaborative projects, students engage with other artists and artistic practices and/or with various practitioners from other disciplines, such as: designers, scientists, actors, musicians, writers, mathematicians, etc. as a means of realizing their artistic vision. 

This course will cover the practical skills required for the successful management and funding of arts organizations. Areas covered will include budgeting, fundraising, analysis of financial statements, contracts, marketing/publicity, audience development, board governance, and issues associated with the founding of a nonprofit organization. Throughout the course, students will engage in practical exercises, case studies, and hands-on projects that mirror real-world scenarios in arts administration and grant writing. By the end of the course, students will have developed a comprehensive arts administration toolkit, enabling them to pursue successful careers in leadership roles throughout the arts.

This course helps students develop skills necessary to produce and/or direct productions involving dance and multimedia art works. Multiple elements, beyond the creative are included in this course, enabling students to consider the financial, and collaborative efforts involved in production. Students will develop aesthetic expression and produce or analyze creative works within traditions of visual and performing arts.

Somatic Study is an inquiry into our “lived body” by observing and exploring ourselves through sensing and moving. It is simply, and most profoundly, the study of how the human embodied experience unfolds. This course guides the student through academic research study and ties it into their somatic practice, guided by an ISSC representative. 

Somatic Study is an inquiry into our “lived body” by observing and exploring ourselves through sensing and moving. It is simply, and most profoundly, the study of how the human embodied experience unfolds. This course guides the student through academic research study and ties it into their somatic practice, guided by an ISSC representative. 

Students pursue a sophisticated thesis question via rigorous practice-led and academic research, and begin documenting their process in a context statement. Frequent interaction with both the onsite and Reinhardt faculty mentors is required. 

The student will complete and present the thesis exhibition/performance with appropriate docu-mentation, as well as an assessment portfolio. All materials must demonstrate mastery of conception, intention and production. An oral defense of the thesis exhibition/performance is required.

All MFA candidates must create an original 20-minute dance work or performance event that is based on a unique research project. Students work closely with their thesis advisor and committee members to create work that showcases synthesis of skills, mastery of craft and a deeply informed personal aesthetic. Students will develop a draft thesis proposal during their third and fourth semesters.

The thesis project is accompanied by written documentation (approximately 20-30 pages) that provides the critical and methodological context for the work. Because every project is different, the specific requirements for the project will be determined in consultation with the major advisor/chair and other members of the graduate faculty. Students are responsible for all logistics related to production, including venue, production rights, and other potential practicalities for production.