ClassInfo - Fall 2023 Dance Classes

Fall 2023 | DNCE 3411 Section 001: Dance and Popular Culture: Choreographing Race, Class, and Gender (20410)

Instructor(s): Cindy Garcia
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Enrollment Requirements:: junior or senior
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023

Tue, Thu 09:05AM - 09:55AM

UMTC, West Bank

Barbara Barker Ctr for Dance 301
Enrollment Status:: Open (18 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:: Fall 2023
Fall 2022
Fall 2021

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 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/20410/1239
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 8 April 2009

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