Course Info: HACU-0118
| Course | HACU-0118 Dancing Coalition |
| Long Title | Dancing Coalition: Contact, Partnering and Ensemble Improvisation |
| Term | 2025S |
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| Meeting Info | Music and Dance BuildingüMusic and Dance Building MAINüSMALL on M,WüM,W from 1:00-2:20ü1:00-2:20 |
| Faculty | Lailye Weidman |
| Capacity | 23 |
| Available | 7 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Additional Info | Field Trip fee: (mileage, admission fees, etc.):$35 Students should expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time |
| Description | This course invites dancers and movers of all experience levels
to dive into the bold work of moving together. Over the semester,
students will learn techniques from contact improvisation,
contemporary partnering, and ensemble improvisation. We will
engage with dance artists who utilize these practices and view
choreographic works generated through related inquiries. In
dialogue with readings and audio materials (podcasts), we will
ask how dancing together relates to community organizing,
collective work, and building coalitions. While harmony and
shared affinity may arise in our dancing, this course
acknowledges that dancing together requires active-and sometimes
difficult-negotiations between one's own aims and those of one's
collaborators. Drawing on Bernice Johnson Reagon's theorization
of coalition, we will cultivate spaces for discomfort,
difference, and conflicting needs within our group practices.
Personal practices for grounding in one's own body and
environment will also be an essential component. keywords:dance, care, coalition, organizing, improvisation |