ENG 271 Dancing Cultures

What is dance?  What constitutes performance?  In this course we explore how the body, identity and culture are represented through aesthetic traditions, cultural contexts and texts from many genres in order to create social and cultural meanings.  We examine how performance and dance are connected to questions of gender, ecology, and national identity.  Students will consider embodied knowledge practices as they are represented textually in memoirs, essays, films, graphic novels, poems, and novels.  The course is for all students interested in movement studies and in the cultural and textual exploration of dance practices. [H, V]

Instructor

Rohman