Courses in Institute for the Humanities
(Division 394)
101. First Year Seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies. (3). (HU).
Section 001 - The Movement Workshop: Embodying the Imaginary through Movement
Imagery. The class will meet once each week. Each class will be divided
into two parts. The first part, a studio class in the basics of movement
facilitation, will introduce students to various modern-day approaches to
dance movement. The second will explore ways of communicating various "image
orientations" using the moving body as the medium of expression. What
images haunt us? empower us? define our individual academic or artistic
disciplines? our own sense of self? How do we house imagery in an expressive
form? in our bodies as well as in our minds? How is the visual or verbal
linked to the sensory and sensual? How is experience (or human intelligence
or ability to learn) determined or enhanced by the body's receptivity (or
lack thereof) to respond, identify with, or interact with images from both
outside the body and from within? There are no prerequisites except the
willingness to participate actively in the exploration of all kinds of movement,
dance-oriented or other. (Sparling)