2017-18 Academic Catalog

Dance is an art of the body in time and space and culture. This course will look at dance as a symbolic system of meanings based on bodily display. The investigation of the body as a “text” will be anchored by, but not limited to, feminist perspectives. Topics include Native American concert dance and the Africanist base of American Modern dance. Through reading, writing, discussing, moving, viewing videos and performances the class will “read” the gender, race, and politics of the dancing body in the cultural/historical context of Modern, Post Modern and Contemporary Dance.