Course Description
Summary
This course looks through multiple modes of questioning, research, and a critically theoretical lens to put into consideration the complex ways that dance shapes and reflects our lives. We will look to scholars, artists, thinkers, and ourselves to process the elliptical paths people take to understand material existence through the relationality of dance. We will try to bring a scope of questioning to regard dance as an artistic practice which illuminates the continuum of time rooted in the lived phenomena of recognizing aliveness as it is lived. By disrupting the colonial eurocentric models of historicity, research, and pedagogy within white supremacist patriarchy, our time together will become a time to figure out ways in which dance and experiential digging (research) can reveal insights into how the form is a distinct compass. The course will consist of meeting collectively for 4 hours each week to collaboratively discuss readings from the prior week, along with assigned viewings and any additional research. This gathering and processing of content through ideas, experiences, discussions, and independent work will include 8 hours of study outside of our classroom each week.
