Dance 339 - Movement Ecology and Performance in the Smith Landscape
MOVEMENT ECOLOGY
Spring
2021
01
4.00
Chris Aiken; Angie Hauser
TTh 01:10-02:55
Smith College
30679-S21
CREW HOUSE
caiken@smith.edu; ahauser@smith.edu
This course offers an opportunity to explore how place and landscape offer inspiration and opportunities
for dance, performance and embodied experience. Place can include natural landscapes, buildings, parks, pathways, stairways, living rooms, and the place of our bodies. The goal of this course is to create bridges between the ecological and the poetic realms of human experience. Students will explore how creativity is being in relationship to things, beings, environments, and the historical and cultural contexts. This course includes a series of public performances and is open to students interested in engaging in creative collaborative process. (E)
for dance, performance and embodied experience. Place can include natural landscapes, buildings, parks, pathways, stairways, living rooms, and the place of our bodies. The goal of this course is to create bridges between the ecological and the poetic realms of human experience. Students will explore how creativity is being in relationship to things, beings, environments, and the historical and cultural contexts. This course includes a series of public performances and is open to students interested in engaging in creative collaborative process. (E)