Special Topics in Dance Research (335-0-21)

Topic

Failure & Futurity in Dance

Instructors

Jeffery Hancock
847/467-5938
Ryan Center for Musical Arts, 5-145
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 3:00-5:00pm, other by appointment

Meeting Info

Wirtz Center Cellar: Mon, Wed 2:00PM - 3:20PM

Overview of class

This course focuses on dance and performance practices that refuse regulation, coherence, and standardization. Through studio experimentation and theoretical inquiry, students examine how bodies become sites of resistance, failure, and transformation. Attention is given to performance as a mode of critical and embodied knowledge production. A series of movement responses, reflective writing, and discussion will result in a faint performance at the end of the quarter.

Class Materials (Required)

All required materials will be available on Canvas No cost

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: This class is restricted to Dance majors/minors & Music Theatre Certificate students during pre-registration, after which time enrollment will be open to everyone who has taken the prerequisites (when pre-reqs are applicable) or have placed in the level