*Dance Across Cultures: Dance Ethnography II
Building on their own projects, students will conduct fieldwork and discuss their in-progress ethnographic accounts in class. alongside, exploring dance practices within a world-wide contexts, we well examine the experience of fieldwork and participant-observation research methods. Students will develop practical skills related to ethnographic approaches, including participant-observation and interviewing, documentation and analysis of performances. the course will run primarily as a workshop in which students will have the opportunity to work on a paper or performance piece (new or conceived in previous courses) and develop them into fuller research projects. Student projects will focus on using ethnographic approaches. Students will incorporate this analysis into their own inquiries as dance practitioners including the cultural specificity of their own dance forms and in clarifying their individual relationship to issues such as cultural appropriation. Prerequisites: Dance across cultures: Dance Ethnography I.