SMTD alumna Leyya Tawil (BDA ’97, dance) will do a laboratory is based on her dance score "Day of the Innocents". Students will be led through a series of movement and conceptual experiments dealing with time repetition, and curiosity. The practice will begin with experiential anatomy and techniques addressing the nervous system. Tawil will then teach material from "Day of the innocents" as a way of investigating how and why to approach movement in the context of a research-based performance. "Day of the Innocents" was recently workshopped in Berlin at DOCK11 and continues its development in Suomenlinna-Finland with Jason Lescalleet and Heidi Alasuvanto.

Each session features a different guest artist who teaches a masterclass and sections from their repertory—this panorama of the contemporary dance field is presented to broaden the student’s awareness of what career possibilities are out there. The guest artist conducts a 30-minute technique class/warm-up and then teaches repertory that is performed by the class.

In the final 15-20 minutes faculty coordinator Bill De Young conducts a Q and A interviewing each guest artist about their career and what recommendations they have about the transition from student to professional and what they look for when they audition dancers for their projects