Section Info: DANCE-272QF-01

Course Title: Dance and Culture: 'Queer and Feminist Performance'

Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025

Term: Spring Semester 2025

Description: What does performance teach us about subjectivity? How do bodies' cultural inscriptions shape meaning in dance? How does choreography complicate the performance of gender? This course poses an inquiry into euro-american contemporary dance performance through the lenses of queer and feminist thought. Students will study the body as a site of knowledge production and investigate how movement and performance can highlight the intersection of theory and lived experience. Class will read from authors including adrienne marie brown, Audre Lorde, Sarah Ahmed, Ann Cooper Albright, Petra Kuppers, José Muñoz, Fiona Buckland, and others. We will watch and be in conversation about performances by choreographers like Rosie Herrera, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Ananya Chatterjea, Miguel Gutierrez, and Ralph Lemon.

Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , TP - Topics Course

Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate

Credits:4.00

Faculty	Phone	Email address
Meredith Bove		mbove@mtholyoke.edu

Meeting Dates	Method	Meeting days	Meeting times	Building name	Room	Frequency
01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025	Performance	Tuesday and Thursday	09:00AM - 10:15AM	KEND - Kendall Hall/Sports Complex	130	Weekly

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Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted	Capacity: 18	Enrollment: 18	Available: 0	Waitlist: 3

Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

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This is NOT the complete book list for this class.