Movement Practice: A Spell for Utopia
DAN2140.01
Course Description
Summary
Can Utopia be a practice instead of a destination? Is a new world possible if we learn to create our own language as an incantation for our new future bodies? During this course we will delve into the relationship of language and somatic states and how our embodied presence is directly related to how we perceive the world. How we perceive the world is dependent on the stories we tell ourselves and the language we use to tell those stories. We will practice automatic writing as a way to access our subconscious programmed thoughts to discern what is learned, what is ours and what wants to be heard, to be felt and to be “languaged”. We use achugar’s “pleasure practice” as a tool to let go of what is holding us back from being able to write our own spells to practice our embodied utopia! Let the body talk! This course will alternate between being in-person one week and remote the next.Corequisites
Dance or Drama Lab Assignment if students are registered for 4 or more credits in Dance.