Context and Cultures: Mapping the Dancing Body

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Description: This course orients students to the field of dance as an art form and academic discipline that exists beyond simple entertainment. Through readings, video viewing, discussions, writing, and creative assignments students will attune to "reading" the body as a space of intelligence, a creator and product of culture, and entwined within its socio-political contexts. Students will apply critical lenses of gender, race/ethnicity, economics, sexuality, and colonial/post-colonial/neo-colonialism to analyze systems of power. Coursework is curated to encourage curiosity, critical engagement, and a layered understanding of the rich lineages of dance. Students will demonstrate their understanding through written, spoken, and movement-based work.