Course Description This course provides students with an opportunity to conduct practice-based research in critical dance dramaturgy. Recent shifts in the theatrical landscape have had corresponding implications for dramaturgy. The way we think about dance and performance today has changed our approaches to dance. Emerging new aesthetics and new areas of dramaturgical work such as live art, devised and physical theatre, and experimental performance demand new approaches and sensibilities. This course explores theoretical discourse and approaches toward critical dance dramaturgy as well as provides students to have a working knowledge as dramaturgs in projects. Student Learning Outcomes During the class, students will read the overall histories and current theories regarding dance dramaturgy and the works of prominent dance dramaturgs. While there is no such thing as a single type of dramaturgy, we explore how we can possibly fluctuate between theoretical discourse and the practice of dance making. Students develop their skills of working as dramaturgs as well as learn how this approach can be useful in research on critical dance studies. close