Contemporary Dance Practices

Course Code

TAPS 10800 97

Course Description

This hybrid studio/seminar course offers an overview of the formal techniques, cultural contexts, and social trends that shape current dance practices. Through both scholarly and practical approaches to course content, students will gain a working knowledge of a wide range of formal and aesthetic approaches to dance. Other topics include the influence of pop culture, the role of cultural appropriation, and the privileging of Western-based perspectives within dance presentation, education, scholarship, and criticism. Selected readings and viewings will supplement movement practice to give historical, cultural, and political context.

Instructor(s)

Julia Rhoads

¹ UChicago students can self-register.

² Visiting students and pre-college students apply through the same application.