Our bodies are us, and they are not only us--they're also the sensuous, site-specific, mobile medium of live art. "Staging Social Bodies" provides a studio foundation in: Meaningful interdisciplinary art making, effective and enjoyable creative collaboration, core techniques for generating socially relevant short performances, both solo and group, and using performance tools to explore your major discipline, and vice versa. No previous experience with dance or performance is required. Studio sessions ask you to think, feel, make, and move. We'll listen to one another, watch & re-enact iconic live art, make short performance scores, and play. You'll integrate somatically-informed performance tools with skills and concepts from your major disciplines, looking at how their different techniques and understandings of the body can inform and change one another to make something uniquely yours in response to the broad question: how will you be a body among other bodies?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.

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