Course Info: HACU-0266
| Course | HACU-0266 Desire Lines: Map/Home/Body |
| Long Title | Desire Lines: Mapping Home in the Dancing Body |
| Term | 2020F |
| Note(s) |
Prerequisites Required Limited to Div II/III Students Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Music and Dance Building MAIN on M,W from 10:40-12:00 |
| Faculty | Deborah Goffe |
| Capacity | 16 |
| Available | 7 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
|
| Cumulative Skill(s) | |
| Additional Info | This course includes both in-person and remote elements, but can accommodate fully remote students. Virtual field trip fees: $30-$50 to attend performances. Prerequisite: two or more semesters of previous study of dance technique and/or composition. Students in this course can expect to spend 6 to 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time. |
| Description | "Desire lines" refer to the well-worn, yet unruled paths made by bodies finding their way. What bodily pathways are prescribed by dance and movement training, and where do our bodies really want to go? How might individual and shared making processes activate tensions between what has been prescribed and the movement(s) we most desire? What do concepts of home teach us about the contours of our interior worlds? How might we map and choreograph home space? In this course, we will activated the intersections between embodied, performance, and site-based practices to consider our bodies as home, and home as intimate and personal spaces where care, and safety might be nurtured. These processes unfolded, first, in home spaces. Culminating work(s) were then develop and presented in a virtual sharing with our semester-long partners in the “Desire Lines: Theatre/Text/Movements through Space and Place,” and will be performed more fully in Hampshire’s Winter Dance Concert in Spring 21. |