Wednesday Sessions
This style of dance was taught by Professor McDaniel, is heavily influenced by Hindu art/culture, and originated in the film industry based in Mumbai.
What is Bollywood?
This person/position works with the dancers collectively to set movement for the stage.
Who is the Choreographer?
These are the five elements of dance.
What are Body, Action, Space, Time, and Energy?
Dance To Be Free is a non-profit organization that shares the healing power of dance with this community in order to physically work through the trauma trapped in their bodies as a result of abuse and bring back a sense of joy and control in their lives.
Who are women in prison?
Heidi Duckler Dance showcases this type of dance.
What is Site-Specific Dance?
This person/position designs the visual world of the scenery based on the storyline.
Who is the Scenic Designer/Set Designer?
These are the two categories of dance movement.
What are non-locomotor/axial movement and locomotor movement?
This style of dance/form of expression started in the 70s in LA and the gay club scene where people could be themselves.
What is waacking?
This style of dance was created by a group of teens growing up in the late 60s in NY.
What is Breaking/ Break Dance?
This person/position is responsible for “calling the show.”
Who is the Stage Manager?
Dancers move through space and time with this, which can be described using attack, weight, flow, and quality.
What is energy?
This technique is rooted in a woman’s perspective and approach to expression and, therefore, challenges socialized gender roles and shifts the focus of dance from presentation to self-discovery.
What is Graham technique?
This is the original name of the dance created in the Disco Era of the 1970s in Gay Clubs.
What is punking?
This common approach to creating a production team for dance involves bringing in designers, choreographers, etc. who are not attached to any one specific employer to work on a project for a fixed period of time.
What is the Freelance Model?
This is a rhythmic pattern/use of time in choreography in which dancers may perform movement without using music, relying on cues from one another.
What is Free Rhythm?
This female Muslim hip-hop group led by Amirah Sackett spread their hip-hop–an “American” artform–all over the country to address misconceptions about Muslim women and bust stereotypes through performance.
Who is We’re Muslim Don’t Panic?
She is the instructor who led our Flamenco workshop and teaches Flamenco at The Music Center and the Ballet Folklorico Conservatory.
Who is Mercedes Ibarra?
She is the Chair of Production and Stage Management for the BFA’s production of Into the Woods and spoke with the class in the Bing Theater.
Who is El (Elsbeth) Collins?
This dance company is a non-profit organization dedicated to performing and teaching the African-American tradition of "stepping".
What is Step Afrika?
This group created the Dance for PD program which offers dance classes for people with Parkinson’s disease in Brooklyn and other communities around the world.
What is the Mark Morris Dance Center?