Site-based Practice: Choreographing the Logan Center

Undergraduate / Graduate

Students will be given a unique opportunity to create a collaborative, site-based work that culminates in a final performance at UChicago's Logan Center for the Arts. Using embodied research methods that respond to site through moving, sensing, and listening, we'll explore the relationship between the ephemerality of movement and the materiality of bodies and place, and consider how the site-based contexts for dance shift how it is perceived, experienced, and valued. Our quarter-long creation process will begin with a tour of the Logan Center that will provide context to the building's departments, exhibitions, programming, and its relationship to geography and community. Assigned readings, viewings, and conversations with guest artists will delve into the relationship between embodied performance and the sites where it happens-including multidisciplinary community-oriented spaces such as the Logan Center-and will consider the material relationship between bodies, objects, and architecture as well as the digital flows of choreography projected on buildings and exchanged online.