DANCE 165: Let’s Dance! Live Art and Performance
TH 3:30-6:00pm
Instructor: T. DeFrantz
This introductory course offers an examination of major movements in the history of concert and social dance with an emphasis on performances of the 21st century. For example, considerations of popular culture and reality competition dance programs; feminist foundations of modern dance; and contemporary performance idioms that involve the presence of the body. CL: THEATRST 104; MUSIC 165
DANCE 290s: Queens and B-Girls: Expressions of Popular Dance Culture
M/W 8:30-9:45am
Instructor: I Presswood
Queens and B-Girls explores the histories, fundamentals, physical techniques, and expressions of Voguing/Couture, Stiletto, and Hip-Hop/Freestyle dance styles. Through texts, guided movement exploration, and choreography, students will understand the contexts of these styles and how these queer embodiments are performative representations of various queer identity groups.
DANCE 309s: Dancing States of Mind: The self, social and political practice of Dance
TH 3:30-6:00pm (online course)
07:00PM to 10:00PM
Instructor: M. Kliën
Dancing can be propaganda, protest, potential, and poetry. Dancing provides “the seeds for a new order” and makes change possible. We are all moving creatures born with the inert ability to dance. Our movement not only discloses our deepest held ideologies about the world we inhabit, but can also open up new realities. At times radically experimental, this is an invitation to move to the edge of knowledge and reflect deeply upon the state of the world and our role within. Everyone welcome. Equally suitable for novices and experts movers. CL: ICS 309S, CULANTH 311S, THEATRST 309S
DANCE 412: Modern Dance Repertory
T/TH 3:30pm
Instructor: A. Woods Valdés
Former Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company member Andrea E. Woods Valdés will restage Jones/Zane work for Modern Performance Repertory in the Spring Semester 2021. The course will be listed in-person but some rehearsals will be remote. The "performance" may be live-streamed, filmed then posted, or only virtual depending on COVID-19 restrictions. We will also cover the history and context of the company.
DANCE 356: Dance and Theatre of Asia
W-F 10:15-11:15am (online)
Instructor: P. Shah
A broad survey of Asian dance and dance-theatre performance genres covering cultural traditions of China, Korea, Japan, India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia—including the socio-religious as well as entertainment genres, looking at the traditional past in the context of the globalized present and offering a dialogue for intercultural translations. CL: THEATRST 233, RELIGION 241, ICS 378
DANCE 462: Performance- Interdisciplinary
F 3:30-6:00pm (in-person and online)
Instructor: S. Wilbur
The study of performance through participation in the research and creation of a collaborative art work (or works). Spring 2021 carries a Service Learning designation as a public art intervention where students work to support a creative collaboration with TimeSlips creative storytelling and Dementia Inclusive Durham alongside local artists working across dance, music, video, and theatre. Join this interdisciplinary research team engaged in a communitywide partnership aimed at creating meaningful connections to Durham-area persons living with Dementia through storytelling and creative gift delivery across a range of cultural traditions and arts disciplines, including but not limited to dance. No artistic training required. All students are welcome. Course format will include limited face-to-face contact (likely small groups or distanced service "delivery") and significant online participation, due to physical distancing regulations in place for older adults under COVID-19.