Upper Division Interdisciplinary Studios extend a student's cross-school experience from Core Studio up into their upper division years. 3 units of Interdisciplinary Studio are required of all majors and must be completed in the junior or senior year. This advanced level studio is thematic in nature. Technical demonstrations are paired with thoughtful readings, seminar discussions and ambitious projects. Collaboration, experimentation and presentation skills are developed in concert with critical thinking.Section DescriptionWhen is it okay for a crowd to destroy public or private property? Under what circumstances is kneeling a form of rebellion? How can a bubble bath be a radical gesture? Such political questions draw attention to our senses, our emotions, and the ways we share social space with other bodies—all of which are rich materials for live art.

This course provides students with opportunities to explore & craft dynamic embodied social relationships. We will experiment with perceiving, interpreting, adjusting, and performing our shared experiences of restricted movement and hybrid learning. Students will learn to turn their social and somatic observations into simple performance scores and then experiment with compositional strategies to make them pop. Studio time will include meditation, watching & analyzing performance, writing scores, experimenting with the small screen as a medium for embodied work, & discussing current affairs.

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