Delicious Movement: Time Is Not Even, Space Is Not Empty
DANC 244
Fall 2021
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01
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| Crosslisting:
CEAS 244 |
Taught online by NYC-based artist Eiko Otake of Eiko & Koma, this course contemplates metaphorical nakedness and human and bodily experiences of time and space through interdisciplinary discourse. Students will examine how being or becoming a mover reflects and alters each person's relationships with challenges of the current world, with environment, with history, and with other beings. Topics of study and discussion include atomic bomb literature, postwar Japan, environmental violence such as Fukushima nuclear explosions, death, and pandemic. Together we will acknowledge how distance is malleable and how going to places is an act of choreography and self-curation. Through movement study, reading, writing, drawing, and discussion, the class will be a place of collective learning. Reading, film viewing, movement reviews and journal entries are required every week. Final Project will include an in-class presentation and final paper. Journals are graded by quality of thinking/writing and how they reflect homework assignments. The instructor is available for individual consultation throughout the course. Students are strongly encouraged to nurture their own rigor. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CEAS |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| 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
Kyoko Hayashi: FROM TRINITY TO TRINITY Michiko Ishimure: PARADISE IN THE SEA OF SORROW: OUR MINAMATA DISEASE Kenzaburo Oe ed: CRAZY IRIS: More TBA
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Examinations and Assignments:
COURSE MEETS OVER 7 SUNDAYS: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm on these dates: Sept 19, Sept 26, Oct 3, Oct 10, Oct 17, Oct 31 & Nov 7. No class fall break: 10/24
Interested students email: eotake@wesleyan.edu / SDC Schonberg Dance Studio/247 Pine St
No class fall break: Oct 24 & 25 |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Movement material in the course is not athletic, fast, or difficult. No dance/movement experience necessary, but willingness to experiment and share your movement with others is essential. This course is part of the Creative Campus Initiative (www.wesleyan.edu/creativecampus) |
| Instructor(s): Otake,Eiko Times: TBA; Location: SDC; |
Permission of Instructor Required
Enrollment capacity: 18 | Permission of instructor approval will be granted by the instructor during pre-registration through the Electronic Portfolio. Click "Add to My Courses" and "To request a POI electronically, click here" to submit your request. |
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