Sunday, July 8 - Sunday, July 15, 2012
One-Week Program, Residential and Commuter Options
Come to New York City to dance, to learn, to explore
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Martha Graham. Alvin Ailey and Barnard's own Twyla Tharp. Great dance and New York City have always belonged together, and this summer you can be a part of it all. Hone technique and experience the beauty of dance with an insider's view. Dance in the City is your ticket.
Learn about dance from acclaimed Barnard faculty, special guest lecturers, and some of the City's most accomplished performing artists.
Fine-tune your technique with The Ailey Extension at The Joan Weill Center for Dance, home of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, in classes ranging from the modern styles of Horton and Contemporary to classical ballet.
Embrace the art of dance at professional performances throughout the city.
Open to young male and female students, rising high school juniors or seniors.
2012 Course Offering:
THE WORLD OF DANCE: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
This course constructs a bridge between topics in dance scholarship and applied practices. We will learn to critically analyze, write and discuss various forms of dance while engaging with New York City artists, institutions and live performances. Topics we will investigate include: reading dance as a cultural text, understanding the role of the teaching artist, understanding the effects of dance criticism, discovering post-modernism and its contemporary legacy in New York City, and understanding music-dance relationships from the perspective of composers & choreographers.
