Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0294 - Embodied Practices

This course invites artists, designers, and other creative-workers to immerse in experiential physical practices as resources for art making, and self/community care. We will ask: What can be gained from listening to the body-yours, another's? How does a dialogue with the body enrich a dialogue with the world and vice versa? The practices in this course are drawn from dance improvisation, somatic movement, mindfulness meditation, and ecological movement-based research. They have been designed to focus attention on physical and sensory awareness, to provide access to multiple movement and thought pathways, to enhance connections between imagination and muscle, to build relationships with other practitioners and with the environment, and to shift energetic states. Respecting the different locations and histories housed in our moving selves, students will be encouraged to articulate their own unique intentions for, and applications of, this work in their lives and creative endeavors. Individual and group projects will launch these articulations into action. Reading, viewing, and creative assignments will connect our movement practices to conversations in contemporary art practice and cultural theory.

Independent Work Field Trip Fees: $30-$50 to attend performances/events. Prerequisite: Previous college study in arts practice. In this course, students are expected to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.