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OPDI-M9: Choreographic Sharing & Explorations - School, Studio, Personal
October 14, 2024 - November 24, 2024
This course is designed to encourage participants to share and explore choreographic projects created by them and others to expand their own ability to create new material, review choreography already produced, and envision new creative possibilities. In the process, students will understand more deeply how to look at the work of others, and how to best explore and review their own methods and results. The course is designed for dance teachers and artists who create choreography for their students in concerts and workshops, as well as for those who create original choreography independent of work environments. Through sharing and exploring work and process with peers and faculty, dance teachers and artists will have opportunities to make their choreography stronger and more meaningful, and enhance the power of dance for themselves and audiences. This course does not focus on one particular style or genre, but rather on overall explorations in dance and movement. Over at least the last three decades, choreographers whose basic training was in specific styles and genres (such as ballet, modern, post-modern, hip-hop, tap, and culturally specific) have utilized movement ideas from all of the above, going beyond their original training.
Book required: None
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Naima Prevots
<p><strong>Naima Prevots </strong>has been performer, choreographer, teacher, critic, historian, administrator, and in 2019 was awarded NDEO’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Early in her career she performed with Merce Cunningham’s company in 1952 as a student at Brandeis University, in 1955 with Marie Marchowsky at Henry Street Playhouse, and later with Pola Nirenska’s Company in Washington, D.C. Naima’s choreography was commissioned by Princeton Ballet, and the Jewish Community Centers in Maryland and Washington, and in the 1960s she co-founded Dimensions Dance Company, performing and choreographing in many venues.</p><p>She is Professor Emerita, American University, where from 1967 until retirement in 2003 she helped found the Department of Performing Arts, serving as Director of Dance and Chair of the Department. From 1971 to 1983 she created a summer program at the university, bringing in companies of Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Murray Louis, Erick Hawkins, Don Redlich, and many others to teach for students and teachers who came from all over nationally and internationally, and to perform for large Washington audiences.</p><p>As a critic and historian she has written numerous articles, reviews, monographs, and has published three books: Dancing in the Sun, Hollywood Choreographers 1915-1937; American Pageantry: A Movement for Art and Democracy; Dance for Export: Cultural Diplomacy and the Cold War. She has served on the boards of many organizations including CORD; SDHS; NDEO; ADG; Fulbright Association, and has been consultant for both National Endowment for the Arts and for the Humanities and the Arts and Humanities Councils of Washington and California. Her consulting includes working in Israel, where she helped develop the High School dance programs. As an arts educator she was designated an Artist in the Schools and was on the staff of PROJECT CAREL, one of the first government supported efforts to bring dance and the other arts into the schools. As the recipient of six Fulbright Fellowships, she worked in Belgium, The Netherlands, Australia, Portugal, and Germany. Naima has been teaching in NDEO's OPDI program since 2012, and created the current course in 2021.</p>
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