Curriculum Brief

Laban Movement Analysis (LMA)

Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) is a conceptual and practical model for observing, describing, and exploring movement in function and expression. The focus of the workshop concentrates on the issues of expressiveness and performance qualities, in particular on how circumstance or intent behind an act affects the quality of the movement. The workshop will be based on learning and personal problem solving. Movement ideas and kinesthetic principles are translated into kinetic images and moving experiences with the focus on the students' ability to identify physically and visually the dynamics being used. Students will then learn how to apply and make use of the various expressive potentials in their creative endeavor. Observation and articulating skills will also be stressed throughout.

Instructor ：Aaron Wan

'East meets West' Movement Technique

To cultivate students' growth as artists, Ma teach es dance technique with context, emotion, and kinesthetic awareness by blending Eastern and Western art forms and philosophies. By blending Western contemporary dance technique with meditation concepts and practices, the goal is to help students realize dance as a meaningful art based on both internal and external expression. Dance education requires not only technical mastery, but cognitive and emotional development. The unification of body and mind is a spiritual experience, enabling dancers to recognize they are more than a body devoid of context and meaning. Dancers' heightened awareness of their existence encourages imagination, acceptance of diverse perspective and approaches, profound commitment to movement and classroom communities, and connections between academia and everyday life.

Instructor ：Ma Shouze

Paul Taylor Technique

Science and somatics support technique. They are supplemental. To find technique that is fully serviceable, knowledge of oneself and the world is key. Technique must be understood as it truly exists, a complex and constant negotiation between soma and the materials of nature, history, and society. Performing and creating dance requires simultaneity of inward and outward awareness.

Instructor ：Mary Cochran

Release Technique

The technique focuses on training the mind and body to work together whilst employing kinesthetic and anatomical principles, so as to improve strength, flexibility, alignment, joint mobility, balance, coordination, musicality, and endurance. Particular emphasis is placed on articulation, quality and precision of transitional movements, dynamics, visualization, emotional quality and spatial awareness. At the end, the dancers will move with greater economy and attain the level of “effortless effort“.

Instructors ：Csaba Buday, Lin Chao Jung ， Wu Yi-san ，Li YongJing ，Rebecca Wong

Modern Dance Technique

Modern dance has four pillars: articulation, freedom, strength, and witty rebellion. These are necessary qualities of mind as well as body. The blend of abilities required to achieve a physical result may be quite different from the illusion one desires to create. One must embody, physically and psychically, reality and fantasy at the same time. The method through which one can achieve both truth of form and transcend mere structure is wonderfully absurd. Constant and spontaneous experimentation applied to dogged repetition and slavish devotion to an ideal is a beginning. Dance technique is not a science; it is an art and requires magic. Magic is shorthand for authentic intention.

Instructors ：Lin Chao Jung 、Hu Xiao 、Annick Charlot 、Wu Yi-san 、Rebecca Wong 、Li YongJing 、Ouyang Wenliang 、Yan Xiaoxiao

Modern Ballet and Pointe

Classical ballet is based on formalized movements and positions, while modern ballet seeks to modify the inherent system.and knits contemporary dance elements together. The workshop starts with barre work, proceeds to centre work and practice on modern ballet repertoire.

Instructors ：Keriguy Philippe 、Susan Leclercq 、Chen Xiewei

(UN)Defined Trajectories and (IN)Formal Orders

The workshop is an investigation of the notion of "system". Inparticular it will focus on a systematic and methodological process towards an exploration of mathematical model as reference for dance composition and choreography. In encountering of this analitical procedures, the workshop will navigate and negotiate this condition,dealing with VCCT - vedic choreographic cube tool. The aim is to pursue practical exercise on the role of Joints, Weight, Slowness and Breathing addressing them to the idea of "pre movement".

Instructor: Alessandro Carboni

Improvisation

What brings you to movement and what would you like to bring across with your movements? How can language and sound be part of your movement and when does ?language“ add another level to dance?With the help of different tools of improvisation and composition ， the improvisation class will search and explore the motivation to move. Through various improvisational tasks and compositional games, it also creates a room for questions, develops interests in sentimental bodies as well as physical spaces away from language and accustomed behavioral patterns.

Instructors ：Antje Pfundtner,Rebecca Wong

Chance Choreographic Workshop

The workshop studies the use of logic, non-logic, chance, deliberativeness and exploration in choreography, and helps the students build up the unique expressions for individual ideas and emotions.

Instructor ：Long Yunna

Korean Dance

Korean dance, which is bas ed on movements and K orean contemporary dance, covers a wide range of genres including improvised dances such as the sword dance performed with folk melodies, mask dance, shaman dance, as well as the high-spirited recreation dance.

Instructor ：Kim Yong-chul