Description
410. History of Dance 3-0-3
This course will examine the theoretical writings on dance history, aesthetics and culture, covering the depth and range of contemporary scholarship with considerations for dance as process, as body, as art and as culture, while exploring ritual, choreographic, performance, critical and education processes in dance. A global perspective of dance and movement practices from various parts of the world will be considered, while focusing on the history of dance in the western tradition during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.