World Dance

Semester and Year	SP 2011
Course Number	ARTS-UG1212
Section	001
Instructor	Kathryn Posin
Days	Thu
Time	3:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Units	4.0
Level	U
Foundation Requirement

Description

Dance reflects cultural heritage and is a key to understanding diverse societies. In this arts workshop, students will explore dance as it appears on six continents. Dance can be seen as encoded forms of a society's religious, artistic, political, economic, and familial values. Readings cover issues of globalization, fusion and authenticity. Migration, missionaries, trade routes and the diaspora have led to the creation of new dance forms like "Bollywood" and "Tribal" that are a synthesis of earlier forms. Each week students will be introduced to a different dance form through selected readings and a rich collection of video footage. After a brief warm-up, the class will learn simple steps, floor plans and rhythms from the music and dance of the culture being studied. The students chose a dance form as their project and themselves become researchers, performers and creators of new forms.

Course Type

Arts Workshops (ARTS-UG)