TMD: Practice + Process: Hip-Hop as a survival tactic / Glitch in the social dance
Course Description
Summary
Through an analysis of Hip-Hop elements (DJing, House, Rap), we will decode how survival tactics show up through black music, dance, and literary revolutions.
Glitch and dissolve will be used as entryways to a further understanding of how time and time travel play a role in art making. Practices of “sampling the ancestor” and sound layering will help inform ideas of assemblage for artistic identity. We will explore the connection between traditional West African grooves and contemporary/modern modalities. The expression of polyrhythms through House Music, Afrobeat, Afro Jazz, and traditional West African sonics acts as a compass toward the manipulation of rhythm.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will work together to develop practices that reflect on and support creative research.
- Students will integrate movement, visuality, sound and poetics through the frames of time and space.
- Students will create and share small scale aesthetic projects as manifestations of their creative research.
- Students will shape and participate in processes of critical feedback and self-reflection.
Prerequisites
Previous dance experience required.
Please contact the faculty member : kingsleyibeneche1@bennington.edu
Cross List
- Black Studies