Each week following an artist's post, reflection questions and research ideas will get posted. These are aimed towards college level courses (senior seminar, composition, dance education, and more), but of course anyone can read the postscript and find thought-provoking questions and activities.

Discuss: Nina Haft's Artist Profile

What were one-three ideas from Nina's post that struck you and why? Discuss within a class.

Reflect: Movement Practices in Your Life

Nina described the many ways that martial arts is important in her life, and how that movement practice relates and effects her dance practice. Consider a non-dance movement practice in your life – such as running, swimming, rock climbing, etc. How has this movement practice supported your dancing, cross training, relationship to your body, relationship to moving in space, etc?

Research: Site Specific Dance

As a choreographer, Nina has created dances specifically for non-theater spaces that varied from the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, CA to parking spots as a part of Park(ing) Day each September. 

1. Have you seen site specific dances before? Where?

2. Have you performed in any?

3. Within your community, what spaces excite you as a dancer or choreographer to make a site specific dance? Do you have an opportunity in a choreography class to try an idea out?

4. Read the 2012 piece from the Huffington Post about site specific dance.

There is also a book available, Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces.

5. If interested, spend some time on your campus and out in your community looking for potential performance spaces. What draws you into a space? Who would be the potential audience for the performance?