Hours

• H(2S-2)

Prerequisite(s)

• Consent of the Division Chair, Dance.

• 	LAB 1	MTWRF 13:00 - 16:30		Melanie Kloetzel
  	SEM 1	MTWRF 09:00 - 12:30		Melanie Kloetzel		Outline
  	Notes: In this course, we will explore what it means to create performance that responds to particular sites. In particular, we will examine what creating for spaces outside of the theatre context might mean for performance both from a theoretical and a practical perspective. After looking at some of the roots of site-specific dance, we will broaden our frame to examine how sited practices have changed over the last fifty years. We will explore what these changes may mean about human-place interactions with both natural and built environments. Taking our class into some of these environments, we will investigate how our own bodies respond to place and what the steps might be for making a site-specific performance. Finally, through the lab sessions of this course, we will engage in a large-scale sited process and performance.