Dance and the Visual Arts after 1960: Performing the Everyday, Choreographing the Museum

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This course examines the mutual influences between the fields of dance and the visual arts since 1960. It surveys a series of artworks spanning early minimal art, happenings, and Judson Dance Theatre to contemporary global experiments in choreographing museal spaces. How can we map the “close correspondence” between choreographic and visual art practices across the performance of pedestrian bodies, dancing sculptures, and relational encounters? Students are invited to experiment collectively with dance archiving methodologies, to write about a performance event in the museum context, as well as to research the critical intersections between dance and art history; performance and curatorial studies.