DANC 309 Ethics/Aesthetics/Gender in the Performing Arts
This course explores the intersection of ethics and aesthetics in 20th and 21st century performing art history as it relates to the formation and understanding of gender. This course identifies various ethical dilemmas that come up in the complicated relationships that exist between power and the formation of a subject and object, which infuse both gender relations and the performing arts. The course pays particular attention to how ideas of beauty and moral righteousness often become conflated and how various female artists, queer artists, and artists of color have created work that stands in direct opposition to these cultural norms and expectations.