Dance and Dance Theater of Asia

Catalog description

The course is a broad survey of the socio-political, religious and aesthetic aspects embedded in the performing arts of Asia, covering China, Korea, Japan, and India, Indonesia, Thailand, including intercultural collaborative exchanges within Asia as well as with Euro-America. It will cover artistic forms of performance, including performative notions of hybridity emerging within the Asian American diaspora as well. There are no prerequisites required for the course.