Introduction to Dance

Catalog description

This course introduces students to theories and methods in dance. This active studio class explores dance through political, cultural, philosophical, and aesthetic lenses to consider dance as a distinct mode of analysis and practice. What makes a dance? How does dance ask and answer questions? Drawing on choreographic analysis, embodied research, and archival studies, this course asks students to engage in a number of dance forms to explore the meanings, makings, and power of dance, dances, and dancing.