Our bodies are us, and they are not only us--they're also the sensuous, site-specific, mobile medium of live art. "Social Bodies" provides a studio foundation in the techniques you'll need to make socially relevant short performances, and to interlace performance tools with the skills and perspectives of your major discipline. A lot of this course explores how borders, boundaries, and openings influence our bodies, our nations, our creative fields, and our lives.
In studio we'll learn to warm up physically and socially to support our collective participation in a collaborative and friendly performance environment. We'll improvise solo movement and use it to build collective choreographies; we'll watch videos and re-enact iconic post-modern dance and conceptual art/performance pieces to understand how they work from the inside; and we'll write and interpret short performance scores to help give form to our concepts.
Assignments ask you to integrate somatically-informed performance tools with skills and concepts from your major disciplines, looking at how their different techniques and understandings of the body can inform and change one another to make something uniquely yours in response to the broad question: how will you be a body among other bodies?
In studio we'll learn to warm up physically and socially to support our collective participation in a collaborative and friendly performance environment. We'll improvise solo movement and use it to build collective choreographies; we'll watch videos and re-enact iconic post-modern dance and conceptual art/performance pieces to understand how they work from the inside; and we'll write and interpret short performance scores to help give form to our concepts.
Assignments ask you to integrate somatically-informed performance tools with skills and concepts from your major disciplines, looking at how their different techniques and understandings of the body can inform and change one another to make something uniquely yours in response to the broad question: how will you be a body among other bodies?
- Instructor: Julian Carter