Perspectives in Arts as Culture: (DE)Composing Dance (Let's Play!)
DANC 377
Fall 2025
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02
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| Crosslisting:
CSPL 367, ENVS 377, REES 377 |
This advanced research in dance course is an introduction to an embodied way of working that continually asks questions without seeking answers or solutions through decolonizing and decomposing our expectation of dance making and choreography. This method has been developed through mayfield brooks' ongoing art/life/movement project, Improvising While Black or IWB. For this course, the movement practice will focus on aspects of IWB through the following questions: What personal stories, life experiences or political events have the potential to shape improvised performance? What kind of structure and support does the voice, body, and breath need to improvise with awareness, skill, and playfulness? What somatic techniques are useful for sustained dance and vocal improvisation? What is a dance score? What is dance composition and dance (de)composition? How can ecological systems such as compost or the whale fall offer an example of (de)composition that give way to radical creative processes? What kinds of rebellion can the body enact through play and chance encounters? What does it mean to surprise oneself while dancing, singing, choreographing? What does it mean to (de)compose expectations for performance? What kinds of choreographies show up in everyday life? What choreographies liberate, what choreographies dominate, and how can these binaries be challenged, changed, decolonized, and (de)composed? To approach some of these questions, we will explore moving from the ground up, utterances and bodily tremors, disorientation, spontaneous dance parties, states of suspension, and taking time to rest and rebel against perfectionism. We will also explore endurance practices by sustaining a movement, vocal, or quiet practice over a long period of time. Let's create a playground of movement and vibration, decomposition and imagination. Let's play! |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA DANC |
| Course Format: Studio | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
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Instructor(s): STAFF
Times: .....F. 01:00PM-04:30PM; Location: CDS; |
Permission of Instructor Required
Enrollment capacity: 12 | Permission of instructor will be granted during the drop/add period. Students must submit either a ranked or unranked drop/add request for this course. |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 0 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
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