Dance 377 - ADV ST HST & AESTHETCS-CONTEMP

This course explores a specific idea, concept, period, person or event important in the history and/or aesthetics of dance. Topics vary depending on the instructor’s research and expertise. Enrollment limited to 20: This seminar, which examines current trends in the field of contemporary dance, functions as a tool for students to expand, deepen, and refine their engagement with contemporary dance - as choreographers, performers, spectators, critics, or scholars. Among the trends analyzed in the course are intercultural choreography, queer performance, dance and eco-sustainability, political performance, embodied critiques of neoliberalism, stagings of hip hop, de-skilled choreographies and untrained bodies, dancefilm and multimedia, digital performance, dance dramaturgy, economically precarious dances, the body as archive, performance as research, interdisciplinary dance, conceptual dance, collaborative creative processes, audience participation, dance in the museum, and dances of occupation in urban spaces. Students will analyze videos illustrative of these trends and discuss recent scholarship that theorizes the topics. The course is open to all students interested in dance and contemporary art.