PMA 6821

The Politics of Movement: Bodies, Space, and Motion

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

This class interrogates new theoretical understandings about space and how bodies marked by various types of difference (race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, fatness, ability, and socioeconomic class) interact and move in it. We will uncover the visual, linguistic, and performative representations and social structures used in deciding which bodies are allowed to create and use spaces, and to what ends. We will ask questions that examine how people make claims to space. What kind of space does a performance engender? How do racialized and gendered spaces alter where performances can happen? This course is part-seminar and part-practicum. 

When Offered Fall.

Comments Previous performance experience is not necessary.

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