DANC 350 - Contemporary Global Dance

FC ARHU CD WINT

4 credits
This course asks what it means to dance ‘locally’ in a global world. Through close consideration of social and theatrical dance forms, it investigates how they animate the formation of national, racial, ethnic, and gendered (post)colonial identities, chart global migration patterns, form the basis of innovative fusion styles, and complicate facile understandings of cultural ‘authenticity’ and ‘originality.’ The course will place dance at the center of our inquiry, understanding it as a rich site of cultural negotiation, contestation, and exchange uniquely privileged to shed light on ongoing globalization processes and the persistence of colonial configurations.