General Description
Put Your Movement Where Your Mouth Is: Dance as Protest
What kind of sacred movements bring about protest dance?
Dance Lab I Introduces Diasporic African and Global Dance theories and practices of movement and choreography through a political, cultural and social justice community performance practice.
Through in-class experimentation, discussion, and weekly assignments, we will investigate fundamental relationships of space, force, and time; explore sacred social justice movement invention and motivation as generating and articulating meaning; the incorporation of additional elements such as music, language/text, imagery, props and design; site specificity/environment; dance film; cultural expert master classes.
Weekly assignments center upon the creation and in-class sharing of short social justice dance studies, followed by constructive feedback and revision as part of the process.
Additional assignments: readings, video viewing, one paper, one ethnographic research project, maintain dance journal.
Put Your Movement Where Your Mouth Is: Dance as Protest
What kind of sacred movements bring about protest dance?
Dance Lab I Introduces Diasporic African and Global Dance theories and practices of movement and choreography through a political, cultural and social justice community performance practice.
Through in-class experimentation, discussion, and weekly assignments, we will investigate fundamental relationships of space, force, and time; explore sacred social justice movement invention and motivation as generating and articulating meaning; the incorporation of additional elements such as music, language/text, imagery, props and design; site specificity/environment; dance film; cultural expert master classes.
Weekly assignments center upon the creation and in-class sharing of short social justice dance studies, followed by constructive feedback and revision as part of the process.
Additional assignments: readings, video viewing, one paper, one ethnographic research project, maintain dance journal.
- Teacher: Jeannine Osayande