Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0266 - Desire Lines: Mapping Home in the Dancing Body

"Desire lines" refer to the well-worn, yet unruled paths made by bodies finding their way. What bodily pathways are prescribed by dance and movement training, and where do our bodies really want to go? How might individual and shared making processes activate tensions between what has been prescribed and the movement(s) we most desire? What do concepts of home teach us about the contours of our interior worlds? How might we map and choreograph home space? In this course, we will activate the intersections between embodied, performance, and site-based practices to consider our bodies as home, and home as intimate and personal spaces where care, and safety might be nurtured. These processes will unfold, first, in home spaces. Culminating work(s) will then develop and be presented through physical and virtual platforms in semester-long collaboration with our partners in "Desire Lines: Theatre/Text/Movements through Space and Place."

Environments and Change This course includes both in-person and remote elements, but can accommodate fully remote students. Virtual field trip fees: $30-$50 to attend performances. Prerequisite: two or more semesters of previous study of dance technique and/or composition. Students in this course can expect to spend 6 to 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.