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Contemporary Choreographers and Their Works

Departments: Dance

Professors: Lynn Garafola

December 29, 2004

Garafola, Lynn
Contemporary Choreographers and Their Works

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A pretty good class. Professor Garafola clearly has a lot to offer, and her extensive knowledge really brought in a lot of insight. She has some great stories too. Some of the actual choreographers we covered were a little weird - this class isn't about strictly ballet or modern choreographers, but it was all pretty interesting. If you don't have a background in dance though, I'm not sure how interesting the class would be. The setting was nice - my class only had about 6 people in it. Professor Garafola is nice, although sometimes she seemed a bit grumpy, especially when her videos didn't work. And she's actually a bit of a hard grader.

Workload:

A good amount of work. Reading assignments and watching videos in the media center almost every night. Two papers, a short oral presentation, and at the end of the semester you can choose either a take home final (mine consisted of 3 essays) or a final research paper.

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