DANC 305 Movie Moves: Dance in Film

2019-2020 Catalog

This course examines the relationship between dance and film by surveying the aesthetic, social, and political functions of dancing bodies across 20th and 21st centuries moving-image cultures. Considering a range of genres including musical, drama, comedy, and dance-film, the course proposes an interdisciplinary analysis of embodiment, movement, and choreography. Topics discussed will include the ways in which film and dance negotiate a series of methodologies, techniques and narratives, the effects of movement in the filmic representation of bodies, the impact of gender, sexuality, race and class in the intersection of choreographic and cinematic productions 

Credits

3

Prerequisite

WRIT 102 or WRIT 201