Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0272 - Desire Lines: Theatre/Text/Movements through Space and Place

Desire Lines:Theatre/Text/Move

Fall
2020
1
4.00
Lailye Weidman;William (Will) MacAdams
10:40AM-12:00PM M;10:40AM-12:00PM W
Hampshire College
332720
Emily Dickinson Hall 21;Emily Dickinson Hall 21
lmwHA@hampshire.edu;wbmIA@hampshire.edu
332720,332721
"Desire lines" sometimes refer to the unofficial and uncontrolled paths made by bodies that are finding their way. In this collaborative course, "desire lines" are an opening to create theatre and dance exploring our relationship to the environment during a time of uprising and pandemic. Students begin by creating writing and movement inspired by their living spaces. They then move outside, reading artistic/critical work, and creating movement and text pieces grounded in questions: how do our identities meet the worlds we move through? How do choreographies of protest movements redefine public space? How do we move and speak in relationship to water, soil, and sky? Throughout, we will explore land and memory, and how colonization has sought unsuccessfully to silence Indigenous histories of all our spaces. This course runs parallel with Desire Lines: Mapping Home in the Dancing Body. Culminating work(s) will emerge through collaboration and will be presented together. (keywords: Dance, theatre, theater, writing, environment)
Environments and Change This course includes both in-person and remote elements, accommodating fully remote students Students in this course can expect to spend 6 to 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.