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INSTRUCTOR: Niurca Marquez
SECTION: UHF
SCHEDULE: Wednesdays, 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Course Description
Centered on concepts of environmental choreography, this interdisciplinary course analyzes the interconnectedness of body and land in the formation contemporary politics, spiritual practices, and identity. By focusing on choreographic principles and some of the latest research in botany, embodiment, somatics, and environmental sciences, the course will expose students to considerations about the body and land that point that the inextricable connections between humans and their environment. We will explore layers of relationality and lines of tension that emerge in the discourse and practice of the body and land. Choreography in this context is presented as an expression of a more general sensibility, to be transited, to be sensed, to be explored. The course includes interactive sessions in three sites where students will have an opportunity to engage with methods and approaches to site-specific and site-responsive work while engaging some of the more complex problems we face today.