Making Dances in the Twenty-First Century: Concepts, Strategies, Actions

Semester and Year	SP 2011
Course Number	ARTS-UG1208
Section	001
Instructor	Leslie Satin
Days	Wed
Time	11:00 AM - 1:45 PM
Units	4.0
Level	U
Foundation Requirement

Description

Dance composition is, simply, the process through which an artist selects and organizes movements. Less simply, it encompasses not only the interaction with other art forms but the expression of and resistance to cherished, or at least familiar, personal and cultural beliefs about how the body makes meaning. What is "the body"? What are the relationships of our movements, our experiences, our philosophies, our aesthetic frameworks and choices? In this workshop, we will grapple with these questions in the archive and the studio. We'll read works by and about twentieth- and twenty-first-century choreographers and make dances that take off from their concepts, strategies, and actions. We'll welcome students' explorations of principles outside Western concert tradition; we'll welcome however they wish to move, however they wish to move us. Readings may include essays by Lawrence Halprin, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Dunn, Elena Alexander, and others.

Course Type

Arts Workshops (ARTS-UG)