DANCE 3530 - [Music and Choreography]

(crosslisted)
(also MUSIC 3513) (LA-AS)

3 credits.

Next offered 2012-2013. Attendance at dance concerts and music concerts required.

Staff.

Intended to expose students to music they probably have not heard and are unlikely to seek out on their own, particularly contemporary “classical” music and music used in modern concert dance; to mark out the possible relationships between music and dance when combined in concert; and to pull apart the compositional construction of musical pieces to consider what musical structuring ideas might be profitably applied by choreographers to making dances. The course also considers examples from film and the plastic arts, provides students with some experience making sound and movement, and includes discussion of and writing about concerts, and audio and video recordings. Reading topics include criticism and aesthetics of dance, music, and the arts in general, in particular concentrating on counterpoint, minimalism, improvisation, and polystylism.