EI - Embodied Intelligence
Course Description
Summary
Find ways to your own thinking, writing, speaking, and creating by listening to your body and moving. Intellectual activities exist as part of the body, are rooted in the body, and resonate throughout the body. Observing, reading, and listening are physical acts. So is deciding. Thoughts can be rearranged, spatially spread, and musically timed. Thoughts can sprout up, gather, recede, and disperse like water. They can gain in momentum, spill over, and pool.
As we look more closely, we find ways to tune in and listen to what our own body knows and what it can teach us. As we excavate and investigate our own ways of moving, we explore our own manners of learning, and recognize/honor our own natures. This is the first step in applying this awareness in our collaborations with others. We will spend time noticing and finding pathways to experience embodied intelligence.
Learning Outcomes
- Investigate one’s own manner of moving and movement potential
- Through study/observation, take inspiration from movement found in nature
- Learn to notice and consider multiple ways to interpret what is noticed
- Explore the movement of words when writing, speaking, thinking
- Find new ways to create movement studies and expand into other art forms.
- Learn to attend to the work of others, practice giving and receiving feedback, and
collaborate in team projects.