Interdisciplinary Dance Studies

2.0 credits

This course provides a forum for dance majors and minors, especially those with a concentration in Dance Studies, to develop their skills for conducting interdisciplinary, practice-based research. Through videos, readings and live events, we investigate the creative processes of professional dance artists making interdisciplinary work and explore in the studio how we might incorporate their processes into our own. We also consider how anthropologists, historians, scientists, educators and other scholars have approached studying dance from their interdisciplinary perspectives. Students enhance their practice-based research skills by developing and facilitating movement workshops, and choreographing a final project that translates research into a topic of their choice into a dance.