Timeline for Quarter

Includes all readings, and assignments due.

Week 0

Friday, September 26: First Day Business

No assignments or readings due.

Week 1

Monday, 9/29: Looking At Dance

Readings:

Packet:

“Beyond Description: Writing Beneath the Surface”

“Imagining Dance”

“Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance”

“The Audience’s Checklist”

Wednesday, 10/1: Introduction to Movement/Introduction to Social Dance

Readings:

Book:

Chapter 16

Packet:

“From Dance Hall to Theatre”

“Keep to the Rhythm and You’ll Keep to Life: Meaning and Style in African American Vernacular Dance”

“Popular Dance in the Twentieth Century”

Assignments:

1. Turn in your choices for Social Dance Presentation – make sure both names are on the paper. It can be hand written or typed.

Friday, 10/3: Introduction to Movement cont’d/Social Dance cont’d

Readings:

“Looking at Movement as Culture: Contact Improvisation to Disco”

“Two Stepping to Glory: Social Dance and the Rhetoric of Social Mobility”

Week 2 THIS IS A HEAVY READING WEEK – GET A HEAD START!

Monday, October 6: Early Modern Dance

Readings:

Book:

Chapter 1

Packet:

“The Natural Body”

“Dancing Out the Difference: Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis’s ‘Radha” of 1906”

Assignments:

1. Documentary 1 “The Dancer Revealed” Due via Collect It by 11am

2. Review Project Due – Hard copy

Wednesday, October 8: Martha Graham/New Dance Group

Readings:

Book:

CH5

Packet:

“The Harsh and Splendid Heroines of Martha Graham”

“Dancing Red: Art and Politics”

“Red Shoes: The Workers’ Dance League of the 1930s”

Friday, October 10: Social Dance Presentations #1

First Five Groups

Assignments:

1. Social Dance Paper due for these groups.

Week 3

Monday, October 13: Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes and The Russian Legacy (Early 20^th Century Ballet)

Readings:

Book:

Chapter 2

Assignments: Documentary #2 Moved to Wednesday.

Wednesday, October 15: Social Dance Presentations #2

Remainder of groups present

Assignments:

1. Social Dance Paper due for these groups via Collect It.

1. Documentary #2 “The Men Who Danced” Due via Collect It by 11am

Friday, 10/17: Ausdruckstanz (Early 20^th C. Modern)

Readings:

Book:

Chapter 3

Week 4

Monday, 10/20: Ausdruckstanz cont’d (Early 20^th C. Modern)

Assignments:

1. Documentary #3 “Ballet Russes” Due Via Collect It by 11am

2. Review of Chamber Dance Company Due Via Collect It by 11am.

Wednesday, 10/22: Balanchine (Early 20^th C. Ballet and Decentralizing Ballet)

Readings:

Book:

Chapter 8

Packet:

“Stripping the Emperor: The Africanist Presence in American Concert Dance”

Friday, 10/24: Decentralization of Ballet (Decentralizing Ballet)

Readings:

Book:

Chapter 6

Assignments:

1. you Tube “free write” based on Anna Pavlova’s The Dying Swan Due via Collect It by 11am.

Week 5

Monday, 10/27: Mid term Exam

Hand out information on The Lineage Project

Wednesday, 10/29: Modern Dance: The Second Generation (Mid-Century Ballet & Modern)

Readings:

Book:

Chapter 9

Friday, 10/31: Merce Cunningham (Abstraction/Dance Theater)

Readings:

Packet:

“Torse: There are No Fixed Points in Space”

Week 6

Monday, 11/3: Men, Men, Men! (Mid-Century Ballet & Modern)

Readings:

Book:

Chapter 10

Assignments:

1. The Lineage Project (TLP) begins: Question due via Collect It by 11am

Wednesday, 11/5* Mary Gates today!!!: Dance Theater (Abstraction/Dance Theater)

Readings:

Book:

Pp: 632 – 643

Assignments:

1. Documentary #4 “Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance” or “Dancemaker” Due via Collect It by 11am.

Friday, 11/7: Pina Bausch (Abstraction/Dance Theater)

Reading:

Packet:

“Pina Bausch: Dance and Emancipation”

Assignments:

1. TLP: Outline and Annotated Bibliography Due via Collect It by 11am

Week 7

Monday, 11/10: Postmodern Dance

Readings:

Book:

Chapter 11

Packet:

All entries from Terpsichore in Sneakers

Wednesday, 11/12*Mary Gate today!!!: Happenings

Assignments:

1. TLP: Rough Draft due: One copy via Collect It by 11am

One Hard Copy due by 8:30am

Friday, 11/14: Happenings, cont’d

Perform Happenings

Week 8

Monday, 11/17: Merging of Forms (Post Post Modernism)

Readings:

Book:

Chapter 12

Packet:

“Pointe of Departure”

Assignments:

1. Documentary #5 “Butoh” Due via Collect It by 11am

2. Peer Review Due

Wednesday, 11/19: Post, Post modern???

Readings:

Book:

Chapter 15

Packet:

“Dancing on the Edge”

“No More Ordinary Bodies”

“Dance and Spectacle in United States in the Eighties and Nineties”

Friday, 11/21: Post Post modernism Cont’d.

Assignments:

1. TLP: FINAL DRAFT TLP DUE WITH ABSTRACT – MUST BE IN HARD COPY!

Week 9

NO MORE READING FROM BOOK!

Monday, 11/24: 80s, 90s, Dance for the Camera (Contemporary Dance)

Readings:

Packet:

“Dancing in Leaner Times”

“A New Place for Dancing”

Wednesday, 11/26: Dance for the Camera and Beyond (Contemporary Dance)

Friday, 11/28

Thanksgiving break

Week 10

Monday, 12/1: NOW!

Distribution of Take Home Final today

Wednesday, 12/3: Presentations related to TLP and 545 Research Papers

Friday, 12/5: Presentations related to TLP and 545 Research Papers

Finals Week

Tuesday, 12/9: 12:30 – 2:20: Presentations related to TLP and 545 Research Projects

Assignments:

TAKE HOME FINAL DUE – HARD COPY ONLY!