Place-Based Dance and Performance

How can movement practices excavate buried histories and ignored rhythms to invite new understandings of place? In this hybrid studio-seminar course, we will develop critical and creative tools for making public performances that engage local sites through the body. Students will encounter site-specific techniques drawn from dance, performance art, and sculpture, as well as interdisciplinary decolonizing methods for doing place-based research. The class culminates in collaborative performance projects based on extensive research with a local site. This course is open to all who are interested in developing embodied methods of engaging with place and the public.