As we gear up for the academic year ahead, I hope to offer some inspiration, ideas, and resources for college professors. All writing has been previously posted on this blog. The goal here is to gather this information in one place during the month of August. Here's to a great year ahead!

1. For Inspiration: An Interview with Abby Fiat (retired professor from the University of Utah)
2. For Student Advising: A Job Survey for College Dance Majors
3. For a Technique Course: A Journal
4. For Guidance: Three Perspectives on Chairing a Dance Department
5. For a Freshman Seminar Course: A Reading List
6. For Inspiration: 20 Quotes from 20 Artists
7. For an Undergraduate Composition Course: A Reading List
8. For a Dance History Course: Two Reading Lists
9. For a Graduate Level Choreography Course: Essays, Book Recommendations, and Guiding Questions
10. For a Senior Seminar Course: A Reading List
11. For Guidance: Ten Dancers Share about Tenure
12. For a Dance Education Course: A Reading List 

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For a Graduate Level Choreography Course: Essays, Book Recommendations, and Guiding Questions

Today I would like to share some resources that I found to be useful during my two years earning my MFA. These are resources I created or discovered along the way. Professors – consider printing out the essays, adding books to a reading list, and using quotes and questions each week as springboards within a choreography course.

Essays on "The Choreographic Moment"

Over the past year, I have asked 5 artists to share their thoughts and experiences around the time and place when an idea forms and inspires. Read ideas here from Douglas Nielsen, Jo Kreiter, Keith Johnson, Stephan Koplowitz, and Jeanine Durning. 

http://blog.lifeasamoderndancer.com/the-choreographic-moment/

Book Recommendations

For graduate level experimentation, inspiration, reflection, and rigor, I loved these books and would like to recommend:

A Choreographic Mind – Susan Rethorst

The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making – Andrea Olsen

A Choreographer's Handbook – Jonathan Burrows

Hiking the Horizontal – Liz Lerman

Guiding Questions

Bringing together my blog writing and my graduate studies, over the past 2 years I pulled out quotes from various choreographers' artist profiles who have written for Life as a Modern Dancer. Some of the artists include Jennifer Monson, Rebecca Lazier, Tiffany Mills, and Peter DiMuro.

Read the various questions and quotes here. One example is in the image above, quoting Tiffany Mills.

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