DANCE 101
Theories of Dance
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 45. Ideas of dance, choreography, and movement have achieved broad resonance in contemporary performance, art, politics, culture, and studies of social behavior. Examination of concepts and approaches to dance studies and deployments of its vocabulary within field and beyond, concentrated in four principal approaches: history, ethnography, choreographic analysis, and critical theory. Use of key ideas in dance to investigate allied areas of performance, embodiment, social constructions of identity and difference, and relationship between aesthetics and politics. Design of dance performances to illustrate link between theory and practice. How dance creates alternative modes of history and knowledge in range of cultural contexts. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Spring 2023 - The class itself for the material and discussion section was fine. Now the professor and the lecture section were often a mess. It's a matter of taking the class and being able to put up with the professor. There were weekly readings, guest lecturers were brought in bi-weekly, 2 group projects, and a 12-page final essay. One project was a presentation on the readings assigned to your chosen week and a dance presentation that tied in readings/ideas/discussion points of the class. The TA was Wesleigh and they were literally the light of the teaching staff for this course. They allowed students to use discussion sections to their preference. They reviewed readings and offered questions, went over exactly what they wanted for the final essay, and shared their own research with the students. Wesleigh also did a great job of advocating for the students, for example, the final essay was 20 pages, but they had it moved down to 12 pages. Incidents did arise where issues concerning the appropriation of ethnicity, race, and culture were raised with the professor, and Wesleigh allowed discussion space as well for students to voice their concerns. Overall the class was like a 8/10 for me and that's just because there was o much racial tension that did not need to be there and had touchy subjects been handled better or not put into the curriculum at all the class would have been better.
Spring 2023 - The class itself for the material and discussion section was fine. Now the professor and the lecture section were often a mess. It's a matter of taking the class and being able to put up with the professor. There were weekly readings, guest lecturers were brought in bi-weekly, 2 group projects, and a 12-page final essay. One project was a presentation on the readings assigned to your chosen week and a dance presentation that tied in readings/ideas/discussion points of the class. The TA was Wesleigh and they were literally the light of the teaching staff for this course. They allowed students to use discussion sections to their preference. They reviewed readings and offered questions, went over exactly what they wanted for the final essay, and shared their own research with the students. Wesleigh also did a great job of advocating for the students, for example, the final essay was 20 pages, but they had it moved down to 12 pages. Incidents did arise where issues concerning the appropriation of ethnicity, race, and culture were raised with the professor, and Wesleigh allowed discussion space as well for students to voice their concerns. Overall the class was like a 8/10 for me and that's just because there was o much racial tension that did not need to be there and had touchy subjects been handled better or not put into the curriculum at all the class would have been better.
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