TMD: Practice + Process / RAVING: Encounters & Collisions in Night/Life
Course Description
Summary
“…ones who are in the mist, who are the midst, who mix disorder. You the mixer, minor mixmaster in mining, digging with love … life demands we bring forth this potential again and again … “ (Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, All Incomplete)
This course is a study on turbulence and beauty through raving as living-socializing-dancing praxis.
RAVING: Encounters & Collisions in Night/Life will explore the lives and afterlives of queer rave culture as gestural and incomplete, analogous and conterminous demonstrations of complex societal networks that inform the aesthetic, political, and subjective forces that implicate us as cultural consumers, producers and participants. As an operating system for overriding the present, situated at the confluence of Blackness, queerness, and transness, rave culture propels and alters conditions for practicing temporary liveness through rapture & rupture.
CLASS
remains
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CONSTRUCTION ;
“ YOU READY ? ”
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 : nialljones@bennington.edu