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 Chi10DanceTR 8:30-9:50 Spring 2018Tsou, J.C.Arts & ArchitectureBeginning-level study of Tai Chi Chuan and other martial arts forms.MoveWell
Intermediate West African Dance56DanceTR 10:30-12:00 Spring 2018Souly, W.G.Arts & ArchitectureIntermediate-level study of dances originating from Mandingo culture in sub-Saharan Africa.MoveWell
Beginning Javanese12(1)DanceMW 3:30-4:50 Spring 2018Yu, C.Arts & ArchitectureIntroduction 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 Improv12(2)DanceTR 3:00-4:20 Spring 2018Yu, C.Arts & ArchitectureContact 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 Ballet13DanceTR 3:00-4:20 Spring 2018Arts & ArchitectureBeginning-level study of ballet as movement practice.MoveWell
Beginning Yoga11DanceMWF 9:00-10:00
Spring 2018

Yu, C.
Arts & ArchitectureBeginning-level study of yoga.MoveWell
Beginning Modern/Postmodern Dance15DanceMW 2:00-3:20 Spring 2018Yu, C.Arts & ArchitectureStudy of modern and/or postmodern movement practice.MoveWell
Intermediate West African Dance56DanceTR 10:30-11:50 Spring 2018Souly, W.G.Arts & ArchitectureIntermediate-level study of dances originating from Mandingo culture in sub-Saharan Africa.MoveWell
Intermediate Hip Hop59DanceTR 12-1:50 Spring 2018The StaffArts & ArchitectureIntermediate-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 Arts60DanceTR 8:30-9:50 Spring 2018Tsou, J.C.Arts & ArchitectureIntermediate-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 Ballet63DanceMWF 4:30-5:50PM Spring 2018Tomita, N.Arts & ArchitectureIntermediate-level study of ballet as movement practice.MoveWell
Intermediate Modern/Postmodern Dance65DanceMW 10-11:50 Spring 2018Coad, G.W.Arts & ArchitectureIntermediate-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