Dance Course Offerings
curriculum
The Hampshire College Dance Program curriculum includes a range of studio and theory courses taught by a stellar faculty of full-time artists, scholars, and educators. Courses have included modern and contemporary dance techniques, composition, repertory, somatics, authentic movement, dance and culture, dance and film, history and theory, curatorial studies, and interdisciplinary courses, such as arts, activism, and protest traditions in American dance, arts entrepreneurship, and collaborative art-making practice. We regularly invite professional guest artists to offer master classes, and performances. Hampshire students also have access to a wide diversity of other dance classes through Five College Dance.
Sample Courses:
- Production Management for Dance: An Exploration of Topics in Production and Design for Dance
- Queer Dance Theory and Practice
- Movement as Research: Interdisciplinary Dance Making
- Moving, Making, Meaning: An Introduction to Dance Studies & Practice
- Making Dances I: A Choreographic Laboratory
- Curating Performance: Fostering Environments of Care
- Intermediate Modern-Contemporary Dance
- Desire Lines: Mapping Home in the Dancing Body
- Desire Lines: Theatre/Text/Movement Through Space and Place
- Dance Improvisation: Practice and Performance
- Examining and Reimagining Contemporary U.S. Arts Ecologies
- Critical Moves: Performance, Politics, and Activist Bodies
- Performance in Practice: Dance Repertory Ensemble