Course Info: HACU-0145
| Course | HACU-0145 Moving, Making, Meaning |
| Long Title | Moving, Making, Meaning: An Introduction to Dance Studies and Practice |
| Term | 2020F |
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| Meeting Info | Music and Dance Building MAIN on M,W from 2:40-4:00 |
| Faculty | Deborah Goffe |
| Capacity | 16 |
| Available | 3 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Additional Info | This course includes both in-person and remote elements, but can accommodate fully remote students. Virtual field trip fees: $40 to attend performances. Students in this class can expect to spend 6 to 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time. |
| Description | This beginning-level course invited students to develop movement, making, and performance practices as vehicles for thinking about and supporting new beginnings. The course functioned as dance class, rehearsal, and research seminar where we examined assumptions about whose bodies are afforded the opportunity to be expressive, and learned to trust what our bodies already know. We also worked to expand our capacities for embodied play, experimentation, meaning-making, physical and intellectual rigor, and employ a range of creative modalities (including use of the written word, video and digital media) to contextualize and process embodied experience. Our work was bolstered by engagement with the work of artists and scholars who illuminated the ways movement is employed differently in different contexts; what those contexts teach about ourselves, each other and the world; and how we might want to reclaim our own bodies' capacities to move and build movements. We shared our work informally at the conclusion of the semester; a few students went on to perform the class’s concluding choreographic score in early in February 2021. |