Dance 267 - Embodied Archives: Reading, Writing, and Researching Dance
Read/Write/Research Dance
Fall
2020
01
4.00
Barbie Diewald
M 12:45PM-02:00PM;M 12:45PM-02:00PM;TTH 12:45PM-01:45PM;TTH 12:45PM-01:45PM;WF 12:45PM-02:30PM;WF 12:45PM-02:30PM
Mount Holyoke College
112181
Kendall Hall/Sports Complex STTH;Kendall Hall/Sports Complex 130;Kendall Hall/Sports Complex 130;Kendall Hall/Sports Complex STTH;Kendall Hall/Sports Complex 130;Kendall Hall/Sports Complex STTH
bdiewald@mtholyoke.edu
This course, open to all, is an introduction to qualitative research methods employed by dance scholars and practitioners. Texts will include live and recorded performances, movement-based workshops, and theoretical secondary sources. Students will gain an understanding of epistemology, autoethnography, and phenomenology as they pertain to dance practices; articulate the felt experience of dance in concrete writing; conduct interviews; develop a practice archive; and craft a detailed research proposal and review of literature. Trips to regional dance archives and local rehearsal visits will contextualize the work done in class.