Anya Cloud (she/her) is an an experimental contemporary dance artist who is originally from Alaska. Her research involves the intersections of Contact Improvisation, Improvisation, Contemporary Dance, Somatics, Dance Activism, Choreography, Collaboration, and Performance through queer, feminist, and anti-racist perspectives. Her choreographic and performance work, both live and dance film, has been presented nationally and internationally through numerous venues, festivals, universities and in obscure spaces/places. Collaboration as a queer survival practice is central to all of her work. Anya orients her research, pedagogy, and practice through embodied questioning and sensitizing to cultivate radical aliveness. She believes in the transformative power of dancing with the bodies that we have as the people we are. Anya is committed to ongoing justice and decolonizing work, community facilitation and engagement, and supporting the viability and sustainability of experimental dance in relationship with the current world. She is currently working with the research question: what can we do together that we cannot do alone?
DNCE 1013 - Dance Improvisation
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Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023
An opportunity for students to develop skills of dance improvisation through the exploration of structured movement problems. Students study selected contemporary dance artists whose work stresses improvisation in performance and/or as a training vehicle. Department consent required for dance minors.
DNCE 2021 - Major Technique
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2021
Designed for Dance majors. Enrollment by audition only. May be repeated up to 16 total credit hours.
DNCE 3033 - Choreographic Resources
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Spring 2023
Explores movement invention and strategies of choreographic manipulation of body, space and time. Students add to their toolbox of compositional resources through solo and duet studies. Class interrogates and supports the students' developing language for addressing, critiquing and comprehending compositional choices and structures through verbal and written feedback practice. Can be taken out of sequence with DNCE 3043. Formerly DNCE 2033.
DNCE 3041 - Major Technique
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Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
Designed for dance majors. Enrollment by audition only. May be repeated up to 16 total credit hours.
DNCE 3901 - Technique Practicum
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Spring 2021 / Spring 2022
Topical course (intermediate level) in dance technique. See subtopic for specific form. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. May require an audition.
DNCE 4038 - Dance Repertory
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Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
Learning and performing dances from the repertory of current faculty members, artists-in-residence and upon occasion from the repertory of historic modern dancers. Dance majors may repeat up to 9 total credit hours with different instructors. Enrollment by audition only. Same as DNCE 5038.
DNCE 4053 - Advanced Dance Composition
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2021
Focuses on deepening the artistic voice and engaging with other art forms. Students explore the integration of technology and collaboration in creative projects and continue to engage in an objective critical process of their own work and the work of others. Meets with DNCE 5053.
DNCE 4909 - Special Topics
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Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
Explores topics and research in relation to areas such as technology, environment, teaching methods, performance, world dance, arts in society, and/or criticism that the normal sequence of offerings may not allow. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as DNCE 2909 and DNCE 5909.
DNCE 4939 - Dance Internship
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Spring 2022 / Spring 2023
Provides an opportunity for upper-division dance majors to serve apprenticeships in the community in work areas related to their major interests and career goals. Internships are available in areas such as arts administration, dance therapy, and technical production. May be repeated up to 3 total credit hours. Instructor consent rquired.
DNCE 5001 - Graduate Technique
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
DNCE 5909 - Special Topics
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Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
Explores topics and research in relation to areas such as technology, environment, teaching methods, performance, world dance, arts in society, and/or criticism that the normal sequence of offerings may not allow. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.Same as DNCE 2909 and DNCE 4909.
DNCE 6969 - The Graduate Project
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Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023
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.
