TMD: Practice + Process: Mapping Gestures - Remembering Black M/Othering, Choreographies and Intergenerational Praxis
DAN4387B.01
Terms Fall 2026 TMD: Practice + Process: Mapping Gestures - Remembering Black M/Othering, Choreographies and Intergenerational Praxis
Course Description
Summary
This course references ten years of research led by Jasmine Hearn who traveled throughout the United States to interview a constellation of organizers, community leaders, nurses, care-givers, artists, land stewards, chefs, and educators. Students will be guided in a series embodiment practices that braid interdisciplinary methodologies of rooting, listening, responding, shapeshifting, rerouting, and composing. In dialogue with performance works by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Bebe Miller, Alisha B. Wormsley, and Tsedaye Makonnen, students will dance, move, sound, write, and design embodied practice recipes for performance.
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.
Cross List
- Black Studies