Delicious Movements for Forgetting, Remembering and Uncovering
EAST 244
Spring 2007
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01
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| Crosslisting:
DANC 244 |
This course combines the "Delicious Movement Workshop" and the study of postwar Japanese arts. Grounded in Eiko & Koma's movement vocabulary, the "Delicious Movement Workshop" is emphatically noncompetitive and appropriate for all levels of ability and training. Students of all majors are invited to attend. We will move/dance to actively forget the clutter of our lives so as to fully "taste" body and mind. Space and time, in which we move and create, is not a white canvas that stands alone and empty. Here and now is a continuous part of a larger geography (space) and history (time) and as such is dense with memories, shadows, and possibilities. Therefore it is important to learn about historical traumas and the resulting emotional implications of the violated lives of both the dead and the living. How does (did) art respond to violence and does (did) art help us survive? We will see art works and films from postwar Japan as examples of the artistic representations of despair and perseverance. We will also read literary works about the atomic bombings as those works aim to express what is essentially inexpressible. What is it to forget, remember, mourn, and pray? How do we transcend violence and loss? How does being a mover, a dancer, affect our learning and creativity? These are among the questions we will explore. |
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Essential Capabilities:
None |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA EAST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CEAS-MN)(CEAS)(DANC-MN)(DANC) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Oe, Kenzaburo, ed., THE CRAZY IRIS, New York: Grove Press, 1985
Oe, Kenzaburo, HIROSHIMA NOTES, New York: Grove Press, 1996
Sontag, Susan, REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS, New York: Picador, 2003
Bird, Kai and Lifschultz, Lwrence, eds, HIROSHIMA'S SHADOW, Stony Creek, Conn.: The Pamphleteer's Press, 1998
Selden Kyoko and Selden, Mark, eds., THE ATOMIC BOMB: VOICE FROM HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI, Armonk and London: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1989
Course reader available at ...
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Required viewings:
Film, "Hiroshima Nagasaki" 1945
Film, "Naked Island" 1960
Film, "Black Rain", 1988
Film, "Drunken Angel", 1946
Film, "Stray Dog", 1947
Video, "Media Dances" by Eiko & Koma
Video, "Death Poem" by Eiko & Koma
Video, "Dances of Kazuo Ohno" |
| Instructor(s): Otake,Eiko Times: ...W... 07:00PM-10:00PM; Location: FEAS SEM; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 25 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 0 | | |
| Seats Available: -6 | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: 5 | JR non-major: 5 | SO: 5 | FR: 5 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 25 | 1st Ranked: 10 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 3 | 4th Ranked: 1 | Unranked: 10 |
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