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Class |
Instructor |
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Acting Class: Acting for Period & Style Plays
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Amy Freed |
Will focus on scene work and techniques for period and classic plays.
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Alumni Panel:
The Road Less Taken: From Stanford to the Stage
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ACT artistic director Carey Perloff, '80; performer Aleta Hayes, '91; and dancer Janice Garrett, '75 |
Join our alumni panelists in a discussion of how their involvement in dance and drama at Stanford has affected their careers. What one theatrical experience most impacted their present life? Were there any missed opportunities that they wish they had taken advantage of? Come and listen as moderator, Harry Elam, Director of the Stanford Drama Department, leads the participants in a very open, honest, thought provoking discussion. There will be time for questions from the audience. |
Argentine Tango
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Chelsea Eng |
The Argentine Tango is a passionate, earthy, dramatic dance. Close embrace and walking movements dominate dance styles. Argentine Tango is danced throughout the world with many variations. |
Balboa
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Carla Heiney |
Balboa is a very energetic enthusiastic dancer’s dance done in very close embrace to extremely fast music. It is a form of a swing dance that emerged in the 1930s and 1940s. Balboa is danced with the lead and follow dancing where their chests touch for a body lead connection. The art of Balboa is the subtle communication between the lead and follow, like weight shifts, that most viewers cannot see. |
Ballet in South Africa: Gugulethu Ballet
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Kristine Elliot |
Kristine will show film and photos, talk about the link between the art of dance/classical ballet and social change, and tell stories, leaving plenty of time for questions. |
Blues
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Damon Stone |
Blues is a slow, personal, emotional, intimate soulful dance. Dancing is done to blues music that can be lonely, longing, sad, angry, or joyful. Blues dancing emerged from 19th century dances like the Cake Walk, which was one of the earliest combinations of European and African dance traditions, just as blues music emerged from work-songs and gospel music, which were a combination of African and European musical traditions. |
Brazilian Dance
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Susan Cashion |
Experience the samba and carnival dances of Brazil. No dance training necessary. Kick off your shoes and join us! |
Cha Cha
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Robin Rebello |
Cha Cha is a sexy sensual, sometimes elegant, slower latin dance. The basic step of the cha cha has a side–together-side step that is unique among dances. |
Character Lab
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Jeffrey Bihr |
A rollicking class that celebrates transformation of body, voice, and image. Create a 'new' human being that walks and moves, speaks and sounds, dreams and emotes differently from you. Discover new approaches to voice and timbre, body and gesture, image and emotion. |
Cross Step Waltz
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Joan Walton |
Cross Step Waltz is a smooth, melodic, emotional, slower, romantic, waltz. A variation on the basic rotary waltz, it is a typical ¾ timed waltz, danced in ballroom or vintage stance. In contrast to rotary waltz, Cross Step waltz begins with crossing the back foot first. |
1970s Disco
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Richard Powers and Kari Doyle |
The most popular couple dance in the Disco era was the Latin Hustle, a 6-count triple pattern with many variations. If you missed the Polyester Decade, here's your chance to learn both the basic Latin Hustle and variations, plus a little Rope Hustle and the Bus Stop. |
East Coast Swing
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HepJen |
East Coast Swing is fun, simple basic swing dance good for ballroom and club dancing. It is a circular, rotating swing dance that has many wraps, tunnels, and turns. The basic step is: triple step, triple step, rock step. The music is diverse and includes oldies (Elvis and Chuck Berry), jump blues, country, big band, and top 40. |
Hip Hop
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Carla Service |
Hip Hop is a high energy, street-dance based class utilizing the newest funky patterns and variations, combining hip-hop, funk, and dance techniques that are challenging and fun. Hip hop is a basic dance at many urban dance clubs and bars. |
Hustle
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Raul Ante |
Hustle is a very fast, continuously rotating, high energy, smooth dance which is all about hands and body position. The lady spins almost continuously, while her partner leads her back and forth in a "slotted" linear formation. |
Improv Wisdom: Showing Up for Your Life
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Patricia Ryan |
Each of us is improvising every day. The improv classroom is a safe and entertaining way to practice "thinking on our feet." Improv is more about common sense intelligence than it is about comedy. You don't need to be Robin Williams to show up and play easy, fast-paced theater games that will stretch your mind and heart. Learn some of the secrets from Patricia's new book.
Patricia Ryan Madson, Emerita, founder of the Stanford Improvisors, winner of the Lloyd Dinkelspiel Award for outstanding innovation in undergraduate education and author of Improv Wisdom, Don't Prepare, Just Show Up (Random House, 2005)
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| Improvisation Plus Contact |
Tony Kramer |
We'll work with sharing weight, knowing what to do without knowing what will happen, cooperating as we wrestle, perhaps contacting old friends and, perhaps, contacting new… |
Jazz Style Basics
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Robert Moses |
This class will include a short warm up and movement phrase to classic jazz music. |
Lindy Hop
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Carla Heiney |
Lindy Hop is fast, inventive, creative, expressive, youthful, swing dance done with both 6 and 8 count steps. There are an endless number of steps. |
Makeup Demo
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Connie Strayer |
Will use students to demonstrate makeup techniques for the audience.
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Master Acting Class
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Kay Kostopoulos |
What are the elements of good acting? What makes an actor extraordinary? What techniques do great actors use? In this master class the student will learn how to see the acting in plays and movies differently, from an actor's point of view. We will review acting vocabulary, instantly analyze the good acting in our favorite films and plays, and try out these techniques for ourselves through theatre games. Objective, Action, Obstacle, Focus, Follow Through, Risk, Personalization--accessible, enjoyable! |
Merengue
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Ava Apple |
Merengue is a fun, easy, simple, latin dance dance to festive, up-beat music. Done usually in closed postion, body motion is important. Hundreds of steps are possible. Most Latin clubs and dances have several Merengue tunes. |
No Wrong Answers: Chance and Change in Choreographic Choices
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Diane Frank |
How do chance processes encourage movement invention in choreography? To find out, we will view parts of three evocative alumni commissions from the Lively Arts' "Encounter:Merce" residency—live and on video. Discussion leads to action: we will get on our feet and create a composition conspiracy activity, constructing an alumni dance using chance procedures. Open to all levels of dance experience.
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Rotary Waltz
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Joan Walton |
Colorful flowing ballgowns! Tails! Weddings! Beautiful music! Strong melodies. The rotary waltz is a ballroom dance in 3/4 time with strong accent on the first beat and a basic pattern. The basic pattern is a constantly turning or rotating step.
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Salsa
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Ava Apple |
A fast, energetic, Latin dance in closed position. Salsa is danced the world over. Salsa is a non traveling dance often found on very crowded dance floors. There are many Salsa styles and steps. |
Seminar: Mapping and Wrapping the Body: What the body Reveals
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William Eddelman |
The decorated body, modesty and immodesty, status and class, conformity and societal control, "star" images and fantasy, drag and cross dressing, shoes and feet, and changing concepts of gender. We will look at the ways in which the covered body presents itself and as Rue Paul has said" we are all born naked everything else is drag"!!! There are no boundaries to the lecture and the participants can ask any question(s). |
Seminar:
What Performance Studies Can Show us about Politics: from Ronald Reagan to Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Peggy Phelan |
This class explores how issues of performance, especially film performance, have become central to world politics. Reagan's use of film as a way to understand the world became for Schwarzenegger a campaign strategy. Thus, the themes and lines of The Terminator became re-mixed as political slogan. The reasons why this has happened and what it portends for the future of both politics and performance will be discussed. Requirements: open mind, interest in discussion. |
Sweetheart Waltz Variations
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Richard Powers and Kari Doyles |
This is one of those rare classes where you can learn twelve easy waltz variations in less than an hour. Sweetheart Position, also known as Shadow Position, allows couples to waltz-walk forward while incorporating easy swing moves. The prerequirement is already knowing to do a rotary waltz, also known as a natural turn or clockwise (right turn) Viennese waltz. |
"The Secrets of Improv": A crash course in collaborative creativity
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Dan Klein |
Dan Klein was a Founding Member of the SImps, a professional improviser for nearly 15 years, and the Dean of the BATS Improv School. He then followed Patricia Ryan, his first teacher and mentor, and now holds the funnest job in America: Stanford Improvisation Instructor. |
Viennese Waltz
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Joan Walton |
An extremely fast, thrilling, elegant, continuously rotating waltz danced with romantic music. Sometimes called “left turning waltz.” |
West Coast Swing
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Phil Trau |
West Coast Swing is a slower, sexy, sometimes sophisticated, smooth swing dance. West Coast Swing is danced in a slot. |
Zydeco
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Dana DeSimone |
Zydeco is a friendly, easy, simple, fast tempoed, comfortable, heavily syncopated, energetic dance. Zydeco is from the Francophone Creole peoples of south-west Louisiana and influenced by the music of the French-speaking Cajuns. The music is dominated by the button or piano accordion and a form of a washboard. The basic dance is similar to East Coast swing, with triple, triple, rock step, but with very little upper body motion, and much more hip and lower leg dancing. |
