Courses
Want to take your interest in movement and art to the next level? Each quarter, we highlight a course related to the mission of MoveWell. Read below for this quarter’s courses.
Empowerment Self-Defense
WL Arts 19
Practical introduction to empowerment self defense (ESD): feminist, gender-inclusive, antiracist self-defense system. Empowerment self defense treats violence as tool of social control. Accordingly, ESD attends to recurrent scripts for violence and offers verbal and physical means of self protection and conflict resolution. ESD also recognizes that empowerment requires unlearning, challenging of social norms as we internalize them, and learning physical and verbal skills for self protection. Students learn verbal and physical strategies for countering violence, and mechanisms through which violence typically occurs. Focus on types of violence and harassment students are most likely to encounter. Studio-based class consists of physical drills, verbal exercises, readings by scholars studying self defense, and discussion. Students have chance to put skills into practice through dynamic training scenarios.
Instructor: Janet O’Shea
Spring 2018 | TBD
Title | Number | Department | Schedule | Instructor | School | Description | Pod | Flyer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginning Tai Chi | 10 | Dance | TR 8:30-9:50 Spring 2018 | Tsou, J.C. | Arts & Architecture | Beginning-level study of Tai Chi Chuan and other martial arts forms. | MoveWell | |
| Intermediate West African Dance | 56 | Dance | TR 10:30-12:00 Spring 2018 | Souly, W.G. | Arts & Architecture | Intermediate-level study of dances originating from Mandingo culture in sub-Saharan Africa. | MoveWell | |
| Beginning Javanese | 12(1) | Dance | MW 3:30-4:50 Spring 2018 | Yu, C. | Arts & Architecture | Introduction to foundational principles and techniques of Javanese dance, particularly those associated with classical repertoire from central Java in Indonesia. Students learn basic concepts, movements, choreographic techniques, and vocabulary of Javanese dance for both female and male styles. Study also enables students to gain understanding of historical, cultural, and social contexts of classical form. | MoveWell | |
| Beginning Contact Improv | 12(2) | Dance | TR 3:00-4:20 Spring 2018 | Yu, C. | Arts & Architecture | Contact improvisation is art of dancing with one or more partners while utilizing shifting points of contact, supporting weight, rolling, sliding, suspending, falling, recovering, and more. This contemporary dance form is practice of kinesthetic listening and responding to self and others through momentum, gravity, and friction; which develops technical, perceptual, and compositional skills. It is based on investigating how bodies can be in spontaneous relationship to each other through physics. Reading, writing, viewing, and discussion highlight social, political, and historical aspects of form to contextualize embodied material within practice and performance. | MoveWell | |
| Beginning Ballet | 13 | Dance | TR 3:00-4:20 Spring 2018 | Arts & Architecture | Beginning-level study of ballet as movement practice. | MoveWell | ||
| Beginning Yoga | 11 | Dance | MWF 9:00-10:00 Spring 2018 | Yu, C. | Arts & Architecture | Beginning-level study of yoga. | MoveWell | |
| Beginning Modern/Postmodern Dance | 15 | Dance | MW 2:00-3:20 Spring 2018 | Yu, C. | Arts & Architecture | Study of modern and/or postmodern movement practice. | MoveWell | |
| Intermediate West African Dance | 56 | Dance | TR 10:30-11:50 Spring 2018 | Souly, W.G. | Arts & Architecture | Intermediate-level study of dances originating from Mandingo culture in sub-Saharan Africa. | MoveWell | |
| Intermediate Hip Hop | 59 | Dance | TR 12-1:50 Spring 2018 | The Staff | Arts & Architecture | Intermediate-level study of hip-hop movement practices. Any practice classes that are at intermediate or advanced levels are available upon placement qualifications administered by the instructor and space availability. | MoveWell | |
| Intermediate Martial Arts | 60 | Dance | TR 8:30-9:50 Spring 2018 | Tsou, J.C. | Arts & Architecture | Intermediate-level study of Tai Chi Chuan and other martial arts forms. Any practice classes that are at intermediate or advanced levels are available upon placement qualifications administered by the instructor and space availability. | MoveWell | |
| Intermediate Ballet | 63 | Dance | MWF 4:30-5:50PM Spring 2018 | Tomita, N. | Arts & Architecture | Intermediate-level study of ballet as movement practice. | MoveWell | |
| Intermediate Modern/Postmodern Dance | 65 | Dance | MW 10-11:50 Spring 2018 | Coad, G.W. | Arts & Architecture | Intermediate-level work in modern and/or postmodern movement practices. Technical training with emphasis on increasing skill. Any practice classes that are at intermediate or advanced levels are available upon placement qualifications administered by the instructor and space availability. | MoveWell |
