EDUCATION
EDUCATION
In my classrooms, students are motivated to take agency of their own learning and connect topics in theory and history with their personal movement practices and creative goals. My role as an educator is to assist and encourage students as they make these connections by: Providing safe and motivating spaces to learn and create; promoting opportunities to contextualize and synthesize their learning through discussions and projects; and leaving room for curiosity and questions.
In my rehearsal spaces, I encourage my dancers to contribute their voices and ideas in my work. Rehearsal studios take the shape of laboratories where experiments take place. Questions are posed and designs are created, changed, scrapped, and re-formed. Everything becomes a process including the products.
Photos by Brandon Demrey
Movement Genres I Teach
Postmodern Contemporary
Drawing from movement principles, compositional devices, and aesthetic choices from postmodern dancers and choreographers in the United States, this movement framework prioritizes a heightened sense of bodily and anatomical awareness and spatial orientation in tandem with play and experimentation. These historically informed and highly physical movement practices offer students avenues towards rich abstract considerations of their own personal interests while also challenging them to broaden their perceived capacities of the body and space.
Labanotation and Motif Notation
Carrel is a long time student of Labanotation, Laban Movement Analysis, and Language of Dance © Motif Notation. As he continues exploring these movement analysis systems at the advanced level, he currently teaches elementary and early intermediate notation skills to dancers and choreographers. These systems aid in student’s abilities to thoroughly describe the movement they see as well as offer new insights to various archival materials written in these notation systems. Through his inclusive pedagogy and classes centered around curiosity rather than “perfect” literacy, students have the opportunity to connect deeper to a wider field of dance history and theory.
University Courses I Have Taught and Assisted
Introduction to Dance - Dance Minors and Non-Majors
Tap (Beginner - Advanced Levels) - Undergraduate Musical Theater and Dance Majors
Dance History: Modernism/Postmodernism - Undergraduate Dance Majors
Dance History: Choreographies and Choreographers - Undergraduate Dance Majors
Introduction to Contemporary - Dance Minors and Non-Majors
Contemporary I - Undergraduate Dance Majors
Choreography - Masters Students in Dance Education
Laban Movement Analysis - Undergraduate Dance Majors
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