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Fall 2020 | DNCE 3411 Section 001: Dance and Popular Culture: Choreographing Race, Class, and Gender (18135)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- junior or senior
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 09:05AM - 09:55AM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
Open (14 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- How race, class, and gender become aestheticized and are put into motion as popular culture. Choreographic analysis of moving bodies. How "popular" affects understanding of culture. Exoticism, binary structures of stereotypes, identity, hegemony.
- Class Notes:
- This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- This course addresses the ways in which race, class, gender become aestheticized and put into motion in/as popular culture. We will interpret sites of movement in popular culture broadly, allowing us to consider bodies on stages, screens, and through social practices, for example: staged performances of popular dance, motion picture versions of ballet or karate, animations of dancing penguins, and henna tattooing practices at parties. We will begin this course with an analysis of "dance," "popular," and "culture." Through choreographic analysis of moving bodies, we will examine how the term "popular" affects understandings of culture and how culture can be conceptualized as action. We will also learn beginning techniques of baile popular, Latin American popular dance and prepare a short choreography to perform at the campus Dia de los Muertos Procession on Friday, Oct. 30, at approx. 11:30 am.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18135/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 April 2009
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2020 Dance Classes