Course Info: HACU-0178
| Course | HACU-0178 Critical Dance Studies |
| Long Title | Moving Questions, Writing Dancing: Approaches to Critical Dance Studies |
| Term | 2019S |
| Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Music and Dance Building SMALL on T,TH from 10:30-11:50 |
| Faculty | Dasha Chapman |
| Capacity | 23 |
| Available | 18 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
Culture, Humanities, and Languages |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives |
| Additional Info | Field trip fees: TBD. In this course, students can expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time. |
| Description | Critical Dance Studies offers us a way to sharpen our awareness of the impacts of dancing both on and off stage, while also developing our ability to analyze bodies in a socio-cultural context. How do we ask questions with our bodies? What does dance do in the world and how can it help us understand social identities? What does it mean to write dance, and why would we want to do it? This course introduced students to the interdisciplinary field of Critical Dance Studies and its historical, ethnographic, and theoretical approaches. Centered on an exploration of the relationship between theory and practice, this course engaged dance and movement through readings, viewings, discussions, our own embodied practices, interaction with artists and attendance at live performances. Students wrote 3 short essays grappling with course readings and concepts, attended 4 live performances and wrote 9 responses to them, engaged in in-class movement and writing activities, and developed a research project shared through an in-class presentation and a 6-8 page writing assignment at the end of the semester. |