DANCE 101G: Introduction to Dance and Creative Processes is a 12-week university paper, designed for a first year student. The paper aims to develop an understanding the moving body. It does this through movement awareness, dance improvisation, choreography and creative and analytic writing. Students undertake both theoretical and practical classes focusing on a range of practices that dancers and movement practitioners use to facilitate kinaesthetic awareness, experimentation, communication and choreography. Students explore somatic theory and practice, improvisation scores, choreography and dance analysis.

 

DANCE 101G offers a range of approaches to creative thinking both within the studio space and in the domestic environment. The course takes a blended approach to learning - it is hybrid (in person/digital) to allow for international student engagement as well as course continuation during a time of pandemic.

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This digital site is for educators and artists interested in creative education, for future students, present students, past students and people who would like to see some of the thinking that's occurring within DANCE 101G - a course that has been taught at the University of Auckland since 2005. 

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