Macquarie University

Movement and Dance in the 21st Century - DANC101

The twentieth century exploded with dance forms. Modern dance was born, with its emphasis on the expressive capacities of the individual. The dances of other cultures became increasingly available yet remained enticingly exotic. Women threw away their corsets and moved freely. Rigorous physical practices created super human bodies. Social dance went through wild changes born on the tides of musical revolution. Dance became an extreme sport. The flowering of contemporary dance forms revealed our freedoms, our desires, our contacts with the exotic and a burning desire to be physically powerful. This unit provides extensive theoretical and embodied knowledge of some of the major dance forms of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Teaching is in both lecture and workshop format. Assessments protocols are flexible offering students a choice of performance or essay for their major project.

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