Dance and Performance Topics

Catalog description

This seminar introduces graduate students to dance and performance research and dance and performance theory by examining the work of contemporary scholars/researchers, dance/performance historians, and dance/performance critics. The class will include creative assignment correlated with theory and will cover several aspects of writing, including: research methods; literature review: dance and performance evolution and history; analysis of choreography and performance; performance descriptions; writing about dance and the moving body; and theoretical approaches to create original scholarship.