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Your search for courses · during 25FA, 26WI, 26SP · taught by jhoward · returned 7 results
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DANC 190 Fields of Performance 6 credits
This introductory course in choreography explores games, structures, systems and sports as sources and locations of movement composition and performance. Readings, viewings and discussion of postmodernist structures and choreographers as well as attendance and analysis of dance performances and sports events will be jumping off point for creative process and will pave the way for small individual compositions and one larger project. In an atmosphere of play, spontaneity and research participants will discover new ways of defining dance, pushing limits and bending the rules. Guest choreographers and coaches will be invited as part of the class. Open to all movers. No previous experience necessary.
- Spring 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice
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DANC 190.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THWeitz Center 165 1:15pm-3:00pm
- T, THWeitz Center 168 1:15pm-3:00pm
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DANC 205 Winter Dance 1 credits
Intensive rehearsal and performance of a work commissioned from professional guest choreographer. The class will culminate in a performance in the Spring Term, so students taking this course should plan to register for DANC 206 in Spring. Open to all levels.
- Winter 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice
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DANC 205.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- TWeitz Center 165 6:30pm-8:00pm
- SWeitz Center 165 10:00am-12:00pm
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DANC 206 Spring Dance 1 credits
Rehearsal and full concert performance of student dance works created during the year and completed in the spring term. Open to all levels.
- Spring 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): DANC 205 or DANC 215 or DANC 350 with a grade of C- or better.
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DANC 206.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MWeitz Center 165 4:30pm-5:30pm
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DANC 215 Winter Dance, Student Choreography 1 credits
For students enrolled in Dance 205, supervised student choreography with two public showings.
Requires concurrent registration in DANC 205
- Winter 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice
- DANC 205: Winter Dance
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DANC 215.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- TWeitz Center 165 8:00pm-8:30pm
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DANC 268 The Body as Choreographer 6 credits
"The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas-for my body does not have the same ideas I do." -Roland Barthes. Through guided movement sessions we will explore the body as a source for ideas. Using "Authentic Movement," experiential anatomy practices and compositional strategies, students will generate several small compositions and one larger gallery project exploring alternative spaces and the influx of various media (movement, text, images, technology, objects, sites, fabric). This choreography "lab" will help answer the question: How do you make a dance? For both beginning and advanced dance students.
- Fall 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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DANC 268.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 165 1:15pm-3:00pm
- T, THWeitz Center 168 1:15pm-3:00pm
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DANC 270 Performance As Ceremony 6 credits
This course re-frames Dance history and practice through the lens of “performance as ceremony,” foregrounding embodied knowledge as a site of cultural memory, resistance, and futurity. Students will examine Indigenous, Africanist, Latinx, and Asian modernisms, centering choreographers, performers, and theorists who challenge dominant narratives and the legacies of cultural appropriation. With particular attention to Indigenous contemporary performance and its cultural and historical contexts, students will engage in seminar discussions, embodied research, and site-based performance practices. Indigenous guest artist/scholar visits, and attendance at performances will be part of the class.
Extra Time Required: 1-2 field trips to performances in the Twin Cities
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DANC 270.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 165 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Extra Time Required: 1-2 field trips to performances in the Twin Cities
Taught by Judith Howard, in collaboration with Indigenous artist-scholar in residence Sam Aros-Mitchell (enrolled member of the Texas Band of Yaqui Indians).
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DANC 350 Semaphore Repertory Dance Company 1 credits
Provides advanced dance students with an intensive opportunity to develop as performers in professional level dances. Skills to be honed are: the dancer as contributor to the process of art-making; defining individual technical and expressive gifts; working in a variety of new technical and philosophical dance frameworks. In addition to regular training during the academic terms, participation in a "preseason" rehearsal period before fall term is required. A few pieces of student choreography will be accepted for repertory. The group produces an annual concert, performs in the Twin Cities and makes dance exchanges with other college groups.
Recommended Preparation: Admission by audition.
Audition required.
- Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 350.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤 · Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 3:30pm-5:30pm
- M, WWeitz Center 168 3:30pm-5:30pm
- THWeitz Center 165 7:00pm-9:00pm
- THWeitz Center 168 7:00pm-9:00pm
- SWeitz Center 165 12:00pm-3:00pm
- SWeitz Center 168 12:00pm-3:00pm
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DANC 350.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤 · Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 3:30pm-5:30pm
- M, WWeitz Center 168 3:30pm-5:30pm
- THWeitz Center 165 7:00pm-9:00pm
- THWeitz Center 168 7:00pm-9:00pm
- SWeitz Center 165 12:00pm-3:00pm
- SWeitz Center 168 12:00pm-3:00pm
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DANC 350.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤 · Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MWeitz Center 165 3:30pm-4:30pm
- MWeitz Center 168 3:30pm-4:30pm
- WWeitz Center 165 3:30pm-5:30pm
- WWeitz Center 168 3:30pm-5:30pm
- THWeitz Center 165 7:00pm-9:00pm
- THWeitz Center 168 7:00pm-9:00pm
- SWeitz Center 165 12:00pm-3:00pm
- SWeitz Center 168 12:00pm-3:00pm