“The search for love continues even in the face of great odds.”
What is love? When we talk about love are we perceived as weak and irrational? We are living in the times where learning to love gets shadowed by a culture of narcissism.
In this class we will analyze bell hooks’s “all about love”, then embody written material through rigorous movement practice, breath work, sound exercises, and physical endurance practices. Through embodiment of hooks’ text via partnering work we will explore the ability to trust, take risks, respect while being vulnerable, striking mind and heart at the same time, using the power of love as a transformative force for change.
In moments when disappointment is hidden behind cynicism, and honest discussions about love are replaced with fantasy, we will use sensorial wisdom to grow our capacity to feel, inspire, provoke, sense, recognize in order to build a path to healing for the individual and the community. We will explore how “Love informs decisions, strengthens our understanding of community and keeps us together”.
“Face one another as we really are stripped of artifice and pretense, naked and not ashamed”.
quotations from bell hooks “all about love”
Learning Outcomes:
- Close reading of textual material through intellectual and risk taking embodied practice
- Read, analyze and assess pop-psychology and self-improvement literature critically
- Incorporate research practice and self-reflexivity into your everyday life, and movement
- Analyze through the embodiment of mind-body paradigm and challenge stamina of this united boydmind
- Learn “how” vs “what” to learn, contribute and participate
- Accumulate practical knowledge around nourishment and self-regulation through breath/movement/relation work
- Greater presence and experience of imaginative possibilities while improvising
- Ability to sense the subtleties of dancing with others with minimal contact
- Self awareness through movement tendencies and chosen concepts
Delivery Method: Fully in-person
Corequisites: Dance or Drama Lab Assignment if students are registered for 4 or more credits in designated dance courses.
Course Level: 2000-level
Credits: 4
Tu 2:10PM - 5:50PM (Full-term)
Maximum Enrollment: 16
Course Frequency: Every 2-3 years
Categories: 2000 , All courses , Dance , Four Credit , Fully In-Person
Tags: analysis , collaboration , dance , embodiment , endurance , performance , risk taking