DANC 023A. Defying categorization: Contemporary dance and sign language performance

(Cross-listed as LING 091)
This course interrogates issues surrounding late twentieth and twenty-first-century movement-based performance focusing on dance, storytelling, and sign poetry including cultural hybridity and the relationship between movement and text. We will address materials in Euro/American contexts and Asian contexts. Jumping off from the history of aesthetics and methodologies developed by performance studies and dance studies, as well as sociological distinctions of in-group/out-group, we will ask what gets performed, where, and why.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for INTP.
Spring 2024. Gerdes. Napoli.
Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Dance
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/dance

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