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Course Description

Summary

The practice sessions are inspired and influenced by artist and choreographer Camille Brown. The movement practices investigate various styles of the African diaspora including but not limited to step dancing, body percussion, fusing and contrasting footwork, hip hop, and street dance. Students will be encouraged to explore in and through movement the “possibilities of the imagination.” During the process sessions, students will read, journal and discuss together the varied ways that intersubjectivity and notions of “the personal” meet up. This course emphasizes themes of freedom and liberation, challenging dancers to question societal constraints as they relate to class and race. Participants will take part in improvisational exercises that work towards building community with each other. The practice regularly culminates in instances of collaborative performance. These moments aim to produce critical reflections on love, conditions of relationality and expressivity. Throughout the course, we will interrogate and celebrate how each of us is shaped by distinct experiences as well as shared conditions of survival. Artists and scholars that will help instruct us as we engage in this practice include: Alua Arthur, James Baldwin, Thomas F DeFrantz, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughn Mondays 1:40PM-5:30PM Tuesdays 2:10PM-4:00PM and 4:10PM-6:00PM Wednesdays 7:00PM-8:50PM Thursdays 1:40PM-3:30PM Fridays 4:10PM-6:00PM Module dates: February 24-March 7