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Slides

Links to PowerPoint presentations related to course content. Student Edition study guides are freely accessible throughout the semester. Teacher Edition presentations, however, are password protected and are accessible at specifc times during the semester. User names and passwords will be provided by your instructor.

Note: Due to the visual nature of this course, several presentations contain numerous images resulting in large file sizes that may take several minutes to download. For your convenience, files sizes are listed in the far right column.

Student Edition Study Guides
Week 1

Susanne Langer: Virtual Powers & the Magic Circle

Andre Levinson: The Idea of the Dance ...

 

446K
392K

Week2

Dancing through Different Worlds
Sally Peters: From Eroticism to Transcendence ... A

Sally Peters: From Eroticism to Transcendence ... B

 

289K
279K
Week 3

Peter Brooks: What is a Monster?
Romanticism & Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

 

288K
4M
Week 4

I. Nelson Goodman: Languages of Art A
David Michael Levin: Philosophers and the Dance A
Goodman and Levin: Languages and Philosophers B

Gerald Jonas': The Power of Dance
Francis Sparshott: Why Philosophy Neglects the Dance
Sparshott and Jonas: Power and Philosophy

Kermode: Poet and Dancer: Before Diaghilev

II. Marshall Cohen: Primitivism, Modernism, & Dance Theory A
Heinrich von Kleist: Puppet Theatre A
Cohen and Kleist: Primitivism and Puppet Theatre B

Cohen and Kleist: Primitivism, Modernism, & Dance Theory B

Artistic Transformation within the Ballet

163K
195K

385K

 

76K
292K

 

279K

Week 5

I. Eric Bentley: Martha Graham's Journey A
Bentley: Martha Graham's Journey B

Bentley: Martha Graham's Journey C

Sylvie Fortin: Somatics a Tool for Empowering ... A
Fortin: Somatics a Tool for Empowering B

Richard Wagner: The Art-Work of the Future

Richard Wagner: The Art-Work of the Future

II. Christine Lomas: Art and the Community ... version 1 & 2

Lomas: Art and Community: Breaking the Aesthetic of Disempowerment

Isabel Marques: Pop Lecture: Dance Education ... A

Marques and Lomas: Art and Pop Lecture B

220K

704K

133K

740K
577K

611K

Week 6

I. Constant Lambert: Music and Action A

Constant Lambert: Music and Action B
Theodore Reff: Edgar Degas and the Dance A

Theodore Reff: Edgar Degas and the Dance B

II. Gerald Jonas': Dance of the Realm
Gerald Jonas': Lord of the Dance

Jones: Lord of the Dance

III. The Naked and the Nude

Smith: Authoritarianism and Dance

Berger: Ways of Seeing Women

Clark: The Naked and the Nude

184K
484K

1.1M
922K

347K

Week 7

I. Peter Brooks: Nana at Last Unveil'd? A
Brooks: Nana at Last Unveil'd B

Brooks: Invasions of Privacy

Emile Zola: Nana

II. Peter Brooks: Gauguin's Tahitian Body

1.2M
Week 8

I. Romeo and Juliet, Dance, Film and Gender A
Romeo and Juliet, Dance, Film and Gender B

Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet: Stage, Film, and Dance A

 

II. The Body, Gender, and Dance within ... The Tempest

Shakespeare: The Tempest

Peter Greenaway's adaptation of The Tempest (Prospero's Books)

III. Martha Graham: Movement Never Lies

 

576K

 

408K

 

538K

Week 9

 

 

 

 

Cunningham: Expectation and Performance
Katherine Everett Gilbert: Mind and Medium ...

Gerlad Jones: Classical Dance Theater

Cohen: Reflections on Dance and Dancing

Copeland: Merce Cunningham and the Politics of Perception

Gilbert: Mind and Medium in Modern Dance

Duncan: What is Dance?

 

Spring Break

 

525K
238K

Week 11

I. Gerald Jonas: Social Dance
Gerald Jonas and Robin Collingwood: Social Dance and Languages A

Gerald Jonas and Robin Collingwood: Social Dance and Languages B

Sophocles: Antigone

Margolis & Hall: Art as a Language & Dance Notation and Chronology

Fernau Hall: Dance Notation and Choreology
Ruth Katz: Egalitarian Waltz A
Ruth Katz: The Egalitarian Waltz B

Ruth Katz: The Egalitarian Waltz C

Joann Kealiinohomoku: An Anthropologist Looks A...

Kealinihomoku: An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet B

248K

 

196K

 

697K

Week 12

I. Susan Kozel: The Story is Told as a History of the Body A

Susan Kozel: The Story is Told as a History of the Body B

Susan Manning: The Female Dancer and the Male Gaze A

 

Manning: The Female Dancer and the Male Gaze

Janet Wolff: Reinstating Corporeality ... A
Janet Wolff: Reinstating Corporeality ... B

Janet Wolff: Reinstating Corporeality C

II. Evan Alderson: Ballet as Ideology

Evan Alderson: Ballet as Ideology

 

195K
151K

953K

Week 13

I. Amy Koritz: Dancing the Orient for England ...A
Amy Koritz: Dancing the Orient for England B

Amy Koritz: Dancing the Orient for England

Cynthia J.C. Bull: Sense, Meaning, and Perception A

Ramsey: Voodoo, Nationalism, and Performance

II. Randy Martin: Dance Ethnography and the Limits A
Randy Martin: Dance Ethnography and the Limits B

542K

244K

763K

 

Week 14

I. Sheryl Davis & George Santora: Beloved A
Morrison: Beloved (novel)
Beloved: the movie

Morrison: Beloved

II. Trinh Minh-ha: When the Moon Waxes Red
Trinh Minh-ha: Woman, Native, Other
Trinh Minh-ha: Cotton and Iron

Minh-Ha: Cotton and Iron

Minh-Ha: Outside in Inside Out

2.3M

620K
3.4M

Week 15

I. Ann Cooper Albright: Auto-Body Stories

Sondra Stamey Sluder: Her Story

Julie Taylor: Paper Tangos A

 

 

368K

Week 16

Last Week of Class

 

 
Teacher Edition Presentations - password protected
Week 1

Susanne Langer: Virtual Powers & the Magic Circle
Andre Levinson: The Idea of the Dance ...

 

590K
453K
Week 2

Sally Peters: From Eroticism to Transcendence ...A

Sally Peters: From Eroticism to Transcendence B


285K
Week 3

No slides for this week.

 

 
Week 4

I. Nelson Goodman: Languages of Art
David Michael Levin: Philosophers and the Dance
Goodman and Levin: Languages and Philosophers B

Kermode: Poet and Dancer: Before Diaghilev

Francis Sparshott: Why Philosophy Neglects the Dance
Gerald Jonas': The Power of Dance
Sparshott and Jonas: Philosophy and Power B

II. Marshall Cohen and Heinrich von Kleist: Primitivism and Pupper Theatre

Heinrich von Kleist: Puppet Theatre A

Cohen and Kleist: Primitivism and Puppet Theatre

Cohen and Kleist: Primitivism, Modernism, & Dance Theory

176K
495K

209K
214K

 

Week 5

I. Eric Bentley: Martha Graham's Journey A
Eric Bentley: Martha Graham's Journey B

Bentley: Martha Graham's Journey C

Sylvie Fortin: Somatics: A Tool for Empowering

Fortin: Somatics a Tool for Empowering B
Richard Wagner: The Art-Work of the Future A

Richard Wagner: The Art-Work of the Future B

II. Christine Lomas and Isabel Marques: Art/Community and Dance Education

Lomas: Art and Community: Breaking the Aesthetic of Disempowerment

 

249K

249K

Week 6

I. Constant Lambert: Music and Action A

Constant Lambert: Music and Action B

Theodore Reff: Edgar Degas and the Dance

II. Gerald Jonas': Dance of the Realm
Gerald Jonas': Lord of the Dance

Jones: Lord of the Dance

III. Ways of Seeing Women
The Naked and the Nude

Berger: Ways of Seeing Women

Smith: Authoritarianism and Dance

Clark: The Naked and the Nude

246K

2.5M
937K

533K
344K

Week 7

I. Peter Brooks: Nana at Last Unveil'd A

Brooks: Nana at Last Unveil'd B

Brooks: Invasions of Privacy

Emile Zola: Nana

II. Peter Brooks: Gauguin's Tahitian Body

 
Week 8

I. Romeo and Juliet: (movie)

Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet: Stage, Film, and Dance

II. Peter Greenaway's adaptation of The Tempest (Prospero's Books)

Shakespeare: The Tempest

 

 

Week 9

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 10

 

 

 

Cunningham: Expectation and Performance
Katherine Everett Gilbert: Mind and Medium ...

Gerlad Jones: Classical Dance Theater

Cohen: Reflections on Dance and Dancing

Copeland: Merce Cunningham and the Politics of Perception

Gilbert: Mind and Medium in Modern Dance

Duncan: What is Dance?

 

 

Spring Break

 

594K
297K
Week 11

I. Fernau Hall: Dance Notation and Choreology

Gerald Jonas and Robin Collingwood: Social Dance and Languages

Sophocles: Antigone
Robin Collingwood: Language and Languages
Joseph Margolis: Art as Language

Margolis & Hall: Art as a Language & Dance Notation and Chronology

II. Ruth Katz: The Egalitarian Waltz A
Ruth Katz: The Egalitarian Waltz B

Ruth Katz: The Egalitarian Waltz C

Kealinihomoku: An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet

313K

237K
211K

 

Week 12

I. Janet Wolff: Reinstating Corporeality

Janet Wolff: Reinstating Corporeality

Susan Kozel: The Story is Told as a History of the Body

Manning: The Female Dancer and the Male Gaze

II. Evan Alderson: Ballet as Ideology A

Evan Alderson: Ballet as Ideology B

 
Week 13

I. Amy Koritz: Dancing the Orient for England

Amy Koritz: Dancing the Orient for England

Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull: Sense, Meaning and Perception

II. Randy Martin and Kate Ramsey: Dance Ethnography and Staging of Folklore

Ramsey: Voodoo, Nationalism, and Performance

 

 
Week 14

I. Morrison: Beloved (novel)

Beloved: (Movie)

Morrison: Beloved

II. Trinh Minh-ha: Woman, Native, Other

Trinh Minh-ha: Cotton and Iron

Minh-Ha: Cotton and Iron

Minh-Ha: Outside in Inside Out

 

 

 

3.8M

Week 15

I. Ann Cooper Albright: Auto-Body Stories

Sondra Stamey Sluder: Her Story

II. Julie Taylor: Paper Tangos A
Julie Taylor: Paper Tangos B

 

 

 

380K

Week 16

Last Week of Class

 

 
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