VISST 4580

Seminar in Dance Studies

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This seminar format course surveys the particular topic — choreography — with special attention to theories and practices of race and anti-racism. It introduces dance-based critical thinking, critical viewing, and research writing through written texts, recorded music and embodied performances mostly located in North America. Canonical and emergent dance research texts serve as principle lenses through which seminar discussions, presentations, and workshops, and writing will emerge. This specialized course takes students through a broad yet interconnected range of themes including racial formation and choreography theory, whiteness, Black dancing bodies, Latinidad, choreographing Asian America, and indigenous dance. Throughout the course students engage in interdisciplinary discussions on the racialized body, close readings of dance texts, and analyses of performances. Students will then be challenged to demonstrate their own original analyses through in-class activities, discussion, and a research paper.

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