Let’s Talk About Dance

Introduces multiple frameworks for understanding and analyzing dance through movement sessions, lectures, and discussion. Students examine dance created for the stage, focusing on meaning-making, compositional tools, and movement analysis. We consider careers that engage with dance, including dance criticism and dance dramaturgy. These analytical tools are then applied to movement beyond the stage, including social, digital, political, and everyday contexts. Addresses issues of race, gender, and sexuality, challenging hierarchies and emphasizing the idea that movement communicates cultural and political meaning. Graded on A-F basis only.