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.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.