Ms. Randall's research is articulated through her life-long study of dance and her pursuits of film. Unique in their modes of expression, her performance, choreography, directing, and screenwriting all serve her over-arching goal to examine, reconsider, and rewrite roles for women on the stage, the screen, and the street. Using the feminist idea of the 'personal is political' as her North Star, she navigates her own intimate narrative, looking for salient images and characters to mine for the physical and metaphoric content of her work. Most recently, through her feature dance film, 'Leading Ladies,' which she co-wrote, co-directed, co-choreographed, and co-produced, and through and her dance for the camera works like,'candy dish,' 'Paula + Francesca,' 'Down for the Count,' 'self defense,' 'more, ' and 'less,' Randall hopes to examine and transform gender roles through the medium of popular culture, dance, and film.
DNCE 3161 - Intermediate Ballet Technique
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2025
Offers intermediate-level ballet material, focusing on a biomechanically sound and sensorially engaged orientation. Students must work sensorially and efficiently to execute techniques and artistry with rhythmic nuance, clarity of line, investment, and openness to the unknown. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. Recommended prerequisite: DNCE 1100, DNCE 1120, or previous Ballet experience.
DNCE 4038 - Dance & Performance
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Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2023
An opportunity to research the relationship between dance, performance, making, feedback, magic, professionalism and the unknown through making a dance or participating in a dance-making process for a dance program production. Requires a high-level of investment and motivation, alongside participation in all rehearsals, showings, technical rehearsals, performances, and strike. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Same as DNCE 5038.
DNCE 4061 - Dance & Dancing: More Dancing
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2019
We will dance and dance some more. We will sweat, feel, connect, and think. In-depth, rigorous, current, and justice-oriented dance training occurs within a specific form. Technical skills are supported by context, histories, and potential futures of the form. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. May be repeated up to 15 total credit hours. Same as DNCE 2021 and DNCE 3041 and DNCE 5001.
DNCE 4128 - Ballet Repertory
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Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Develops understanding of the ballet canon through practice of major solos from Romantic, Classical, and New-Classical ballets. For the advanced classical ballet student. Enrollment by audition only. May be repeated up to 2 total credit hours. Meets with DNCE 5128.
DNCE 4181 - Advanced Ballet
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022
Investigates the full range of the advanced-level classical ballet vocabulary, focusing on an anatomically sound approach to the material. Exercises require strength and a deeply subtle understanding of principles of alignment, rotation, epaulement, and movement quality. Class moves quickly through enchainements of complex structure. Enrollment by audition only. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours.
DNCE 4939 - Dance & Community Practice
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Summer 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022
Offers an opportunity to go do something real in the community with dance. This student driven internship is supported by faculty mentorship in collaboration with an established arts or teaching organization. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
DNCE 5001 - Dance & Dancing: More Dancing
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2019
We will dance and dance some more. We will sweat, feel, connect, and think. In-depth, rigorous, current, and justice-oriented dance training occurs within a specific form. Technical skills are supported by context, histories, and potential futures of the form. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. May be repeated up to 15 total credit hours. Same as DNCE 2021 and DNCE 3041 and DNCE 4061.
DNCE 5101 - Intermediate Graduate Ballet
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2025
Offers intermediate-level ballet material, focusing on a biomechanically sound and sensorially engaged orientation. Students must work sensorially and efficiently to execute techniques and artistry with rhythmic nuance, clarity of line, investment, and openness to the unknown. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
DNCE 5128 - Ballet Repertory
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Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Develops understanding of the ballet canon through practice of major solos from Romantic, Classical, and Neo-Classical ballets. For the advanced classical ballet student. Enrollment by audition only. May be repeated up to 2 total credit hours. Meets with DNCE 4128.
DNCE 6073 - Choreography
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Spring 2020
Covers in-depth practical and theoretical approaches to dance composition for graduate students; solo and group forms; and analysis of historical and contemporary dance works. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours with different instructors.
DNCE 6101 - Advanced Graduate Ballet
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022
Open only to graduate dance majors. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
DNCE 6969 - The Graduate Project
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Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024 / Spring 2025
Provides the opportunity for synthesizing the graduate experience through the execution of a project related to the student's major area of interest. Project must be approved by the graduate faculty advisor.
THTR 4081 - Dance & Next Moves
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Spring 2021
Explores dance�s intersection with post-graduation realities and possibilities. Colliding dance with culture, health, professional practices, entrepreneurship, identity, politics, economics, technology, systemic racism, embodied cognition, and (insert your ideas here), we build portfolios, protocols, and sustainable networks for moving. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. Formerly THTR 4081.
