DANC 270 - Dance, Gender, and Sexuality

How do global dance practices perform and/or contest gender and sexual identities? What is the relationship between quotidian and danced identities? This course introduces and explores the intersections between dance studies and gender, queer, feminist, and transgender studies, with special attention to how these fields intersect with questions of race, class, and nation. It will consider a wide range of practices ranging across concert dance, social practices, club dancing, ballroom culture, and popular forms. Work inside and outside the classroom will focus on readings, viewings, class discussion, and written assignments. Additionally, we will share embodied activities and class visits with leading artists and scholars in the field throughout the course of the semester.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Instructional Method: Conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Notes: Recommended: DANC 201. This course may be applied toward the dance studies requirements.
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts).