33-3445 Artists and Audiences

Course will explore the opportunities, responsibilities, problems, and rewards of making, teaching, and producing dance and performance in a local-to-global setting. Course begins with an exploration of the recent philosophical shift in the field away from art for art’s sake and towards community-based cultural work and artmaking. This will include an investigation of the theory that art and entertainment are competitive and/or mutually exclusive. Through in-class lectures and discussion as well as on-site experiences of cultural workers, arts educators, producers, and dance artists, students will learn how the system of the non-profit dance and performance world operates. Across the course they will be challenged, through reading, writing, discussion and other class assignments, to develop their own positions on the philosophical rationale and meaningful applications of working with audiences and communities.

3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 33-2342 Cultures & Histories of Dance I and 33-2343 Cultures & Histories of Dance II and 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 33-2342 Cultures & Histories of Dance I and 33-2343 Cultures & Histories of Dance II and 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 33-2342 Cultures & Histories of Dance I and 33-2343 Cultures & Histories of Dance II and 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 33-2342 Cultures & Histories of Dance I and 33-2343 Cultures & Histories of Dance II