Course Info
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DANC 3101
TBA
The course is open to all students. A student does not need to have prior experience in either dance or theater to attend this course. The only requirement is students be willing to do body warm-up exercises, and to engage in activities involving physical
This studio art course is dedicated to the aesthetics, practice, theoretical and personal research of performance art. Although a studio course, there will be a strong theoretical aspect which aims to outline a historical and cultural framework that shows how performance art was born and traces how we comprehend the practice today. In particular, the course focuses on the social and political component which, from its origins to today, inspires the creation of performance art, configuring it as the contemporary language par excellence. The aim of which is to better understand how this all-embracing art language will be understood in the future, in the dialogue between art and the claim of individual and collective freedom. Physical activities along with actions involving individual exploration of space and public sphere are fundamental to the creative process, and thus this course. Performance art needs bodies; it needs space; it needs action; it needs an audience. Students will come away from this course with a strong artistic, theoretical and personal awareness of these fundamental ideas and practices.
SRISA studio courses will have personal and course materials to be purchased in Florence. Unless otherwise specified there is no need to bring consumable supplies with you. On the first day of class your professor will inform you of materials needed and where to get them in Florence.
