Fall 2025 Dance BC3576 section 001

DANCE CRITICISM

Call Number 00589
Day & Time
Location
TR 1:10pm-2:25pm
To be announced
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Siobhan F Burke
Type SEMINAR
Course Description

This course offers intensive practice in writing on dance and explores a range of
approaches to dance criticism from the 1940s through today. Starting from the premise
that criticism can be an art form in itself, we ask: What are the roles and responsibilities
of a critic? How do our own identities and experiences inform how we see and write?
With the proliferation of dance in digital spaces, what new possibilities arise for dance
criticism? Class meetings include discussion, writing exercises, and peer workshops.
Assignments involve viewing performances outside of class.

Web Site Vergil
Department Dance @Barnard
Enrollment 0 students (20 max) as of 9:05PM Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Subject Dance
Number BC3576
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Note Must attend first 2 classes.
Section key 20253DNCE3576X001