Course Info: HACU-0145
| Course | HACU-0145 Moving, Making, Meaning |
| Long Title | Moving, Making, Meaning: Introduction to Dance Studies |
| Term | 2025F |
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| Meeting Info | Music and Dance Building MAIN on T,TH from 2:30-3:50 |
| Faculty | Lailye Weidman |
| Capacity | 23 |
| Available | 15 |
| Waitlist | 3 |
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| Additional Info | Lab/Materials fee:50 Students should expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time |
| Description | This beginning-level course invites students to develop dance,
choreography, and performance practices as vehicles for thinking
about and supporting new beginnings. The course will function as
dance class, rehearsal, and research seminar where we will
examine assumptions about whose bodies are afforded the
opportunity to be expressive, and learn to trust what our bodies
already know. We will also work 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 will be
bolstered by the study of theoretical underpinnings of
contemporary dance, art-making and performance practices. We will
share our work in a collaborative all-day performance event at
the midterm, with a possible informal showing at the end of the
semester. No previous dance experience is necessary Keywords:dance, performance, choreography, movement, theater |