DCED 242: Contact Improvisation

Course Description

Credits 2.
1 Lecture Hour.
3 Lab Hours.Introduction to and exploration of the principles of improvisational partnering including touch, trust, weight sharing, and non-verbal communication; experiment with non-codified/free movement in collaboration with peers including concepts of listening, responding, leading, following, pushing, and pulling; understanding principles of safe alignment and lifting; learning about the history of contact improvisation from creation to present day and understanding the social/cultural influences which shape the form.