Body and Performance An Introduction to Critical Dance Studies as Curatorial Practice

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Body and Performance is meant to introduce students to the fields of Dance Studies and Curatorial Practice, as well as to performative moments in the history of dance. We will learn to theorize the body in performance, and discuss how to curate the body in performance in found spaces. Part dance—history, criticism, ethnography, and body theory—and part curation—site-specific performance art—we will pursue a wide range of texts and performative works of art in a multiplicity of architectural spaces and stylistic genres. Designed as an introduction to dance and museum studies, Critical Dance Studies as Curatorial Practice is ultimately concerned with the historical, artistic, and physical spaces in which performance takes place.