Section Info: DANCE-151-01

Course Title: Composition I
Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025
Term: Fall Semester 2025
Description: A study of the principles and elements of choreography through divers approaches to dancemaking. How is movement design and meaning constructed? How do the different dimensions of the medium of dance inform and inspire choreographic choices? Course work will focus on experiential and analytical approaches to these questions through readings, video viewings and guided improvisational and compositional explorations of such issues as sensation, time, rhythm, desire, image, shape, space, and effort quality. Students will experiment with a range of tools and strategies for dance making, including movement phrasing, musical structure, collage, group forms, improvisational scoring, and the design of movement in relation to objects and environments.
Distribution(s): I - Humanities
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Barbie Diewald             bdiewald@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025   Performance   Tuesday and Thursday   09:00AM - 10:15AM   TBA   TBA   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

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Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 18     Enrollment: 17     Available: 0     Waitlist: 5
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

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This is NOT the complete book list for this class.