DANC103 - Dancing Bodies

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Academic Year 2000/2001

Dancing Bodies
DANC 103 FA

This course will introduce students to the human body in motion in a broad range of contemporary, ethnographic, and historic dance forms. Dance on video and film, lecture-demonstrations, and group work in the dance studio will be used to develop basic dance literacy. Special attention will be focused on the relationship of dance, gender, and the body and the ability of dance to convey ideas and images that confirm or challenge our attitudes and beliefs about being a man or a woman.

MAJOR READINGS

Sally Banes, DANCING WOMEN: FEMALE BODIES ON STAGE
Ramsay Burt, THE MALE DANCER: BODIES, SPECTACLE, SEXUALITIES

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Small guided discussion groups, weekly writing assignments, final research paper, and attendance at dance concerts.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Enrollment limited to sixteen; eight spaces reserved for freshmen.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA DANC Grading Mode: Graded

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Feuer,William

Times: .M.W.F. 08:30AM-09:50AM; Location: ZLKA106

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 16)

SR. major: Jr. major:

SR. non-major: Jr. non-major: 4 SO: 4 FR: 8

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal: Reading Non-Verbal Texts, Focused Inquiry Course

Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001