DANCE 30S: Interdisciplinary Movement Lab: For Choreographers and Performance Makers

Course Description

TAPS/Dance Lecturer and artistic director of the Chocolate Heads Movement Band, Aleta Hayes, and visiting guest artist from NYC, JoAnna Mendl Shaw, who will offer workshops throughout the quarter. Each student will explore choreographic strategies to create an original work by the end of the quarter. The choreographic perspectives offered will include: Hayes' collaborative making process, developed through The Chocolate Heads Movement Band, which draws upon a wide array of academic and physical disciplines to produce contemporary dance; and Mendl Shaw's interspecies lens, developed through The Equus Projects, which uses choreographic scoring to generate performance with dancers and horses. Mendl Shaw's Physical Listening honors our "embodied, physical intelligence" and seeks to enhance "our human capacity for multi-sensory awareness." At the end of the quarter, students will have the opportunity to audition to debut new works for the inaugural Young Choreographers Festival. We invite emerging creators and movement-makers from any and all performance backgrounds to take the course and bring their diverse styles into the choreographic space. All levels of experience are welcome. Contact Aleta Hayes (ahayes1@stanford.edu) for questions.