THEA 1410 - MUSICAL THEATRE DANCE HISTORY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This course explores the history of dance, choreography, and corporeality related to American musical theatre. Students will interrogate critical sociological narratives regarding dramaturgical bodies and dance from the beginnings of seventeenth-century ballet through twenty-first-century hip-hop. In this class, students will garner a thorough understanding of vital innovations in the industry by key choreographers such as Katherine Dunham, Agnes De Mille, Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Camille A. Brown, Sergio Trujillo, and Andy Blankenbuehler. Students will develop necessary vocabulary and foundational theories throughout the semester in order to situate and analyze bodies, dance, and choreography historically and critically. Activating a wide range of case studies, the class will conceptualize the functions of dance within musical theatre as well as how dancing bodies communicate and amplify fundamental storytelling.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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