Course Content
Week 1: What is Dance? When is Dance?
Introduction and Welcome Week About me How the class will function Components Assignment days Acquisition days Discussion days Implementation days When assignments are due Why so much watching of video Why assignments will vary in form and tools Assessment quiz–what do you see in the video; analyze these paragraphs; prompting an AI; what do you consider your home movement form Where does dance reside/Can dance be owned? Definitions Import of memory and math Discursive properties of dance Archival properties of dance Coherence and practical side of dance Dance cultures, but do we conflate culture with race? Culture with producing?
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What is Dance, A playlist
Wednesday lecture & discussion
Week 2: The People’s Dance vs Choreography, a false dichotomy
This week we start to think about the differences between designing a dance for performance/consumption and a dance arising in a community for a special need, identified or not.
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Monday lecture and discussion
Wednesday lecture and discussion
Week 3: Understanding Geopolitics and Dance
This week we investigate the concept of "nation" to understand how politics impact dance communities when policy makers and autocrats seek to create a narrative to define and distinguish the nation state and its territories from "others."
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Monday Lecture & Discussion
Wednesday lecture and discussion
Week 4: Dancing up a Festival
The state-sanctioned dance festival often behaves quite differently from one that the homies put together to enjoy themselves. It's also different from the festival that has brought the community together for generations.
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Monday lecture and Discussin
Wednesday lecture and discussion
Week 5: How to put together your festival
Producing Change or Producing Archive? Applying theories we have learned, analyze the format and function of the festival. What might be some of the outcomes from its structure, both intended and unintended? What would you shift, if anything, to achieve a different outcome? Why or why not?
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Written sketch
Visual Sketch
Organizational and Financial Sketch
Pitching your idea
Dance and Diplomacy
About Lesson

What is Dance/Where does dance reside/Can dance be owned?

  • Definitions
  • Import of memory and math
  • Discursive properties of dance
  • Archival properties of dance
  • Coherence and practical side of dance
  • Dance cultures, but do we conflate culture with race? Culture with producing? 

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