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Course Description

Summary

This course is for students with prior experience making dance or performance art. In this class we will begin by looking at dances or performances from students’ own past work, or work they admire or are inspired by. We will use these as a springboard to discuss what attracts us in terms of aesthetics, site, style, identity, narratives, politics, etc., and consider how aesthetic issues are directly related to ideology. We will then explore making our own work from that lens in a spirit of curiosity and pushing new limits. The students will develop their own material to further learn about their particular aesthetic interests and what is behind them, in order to arrive at a deeper understanding of themselves and their work. Students will discover aesthetic rigor and creative methods rooted in their own particular ideology. This class will meet once a week but will have assignments and some reading; it will be held in-person one week and remote the next.