Fall 2024 Dance BC3567 section 001

DANCES OF INDIA

Call Number 00261
Day & Time
Location
MW 11:40am-12:55pm
207 Milbank Hall (Barnard)
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Uttara Coorlawala
Type LECTURE
Course Description A range of dance genres, from the traditional to the innovative, co-exist as representations of Indianness in India, and beyond. Identities onstage and in films, morph as colonial, national, and global contexts change. This course zooms from micro to macro views of twentieth century staged dances as culturally inflected discourse. We review how Indian classical dance aligns with the oldest of performance texts, and with lively discourses (rasa as a performance aesthetic, Orientalism, nationalism, global recirculations) through the ages, not only in India but also in Europe, Britain and America. Throughout the course, we ask:- How is culture embodied? How do historical texts configure dance today? How might they affect our thinking on mind-body, practice-theory, and traditional-contemporary divides? How does bodily patterning influence the ways that we experience our surroundings and vice versa? Can cultural imaginaries instigate action? How is gender is performed? What are dance discourses?
Web Site Vergil
Department Dance @Barnard
Enrollment 17 students (20 max) as of 11:06AM Saturday, December 7, 2024
Subject Dance
Number BC3567
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20243DNCE3567X001