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Accelerated Motion: towards a new dance literacy in America

 
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  • Dance History
    • Creating American Identities
      • The Search for Identity Through Movement: Martha Graham’s Frontier
      • The Search for Identity Through Movement: Pearl Primus’s The Negro Speaks of Rivers
      • Martha Graham’s Steps In The Streets
      • Pearl Primus’s Strange Fruit and Hard Time Blues
      • Creating Contemporary American Identities Through Movement: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
      • Creating Contemporary American Identities Through Movement: Martha Graham’s American Document
      • Creating American Identities Primary Sources
    • Bharatanatyam
      • Devadasis
      • Nattuvanars
      • Thanjavur and the Courtly Patronage of Devadasi Dance
      • Social Reform and the Disenfranchisement of Devadasis
      • Technique
      • New Dance for New Audiences: The Global Flows of Bharatanatyam
      • Bharatanatyam Primary Sources
    • Modern Motion
      • Moving into the Twentieth Century
      • “Natural” Movement and the Delsarte System of Bodily Expression
      • Local Case Study: Early Dance at Oberlin College
      • Loïe Fuller and Isadora Duncan
      • Moments of Inspiration
      • Expanding through Space and into the World
      • Modern Motion Primary Sources
  • Bodies and Society
    • Bodies and Machines
      • Exploring the Connections Between Bodies and Machines
      • Human/Machine Interactions
      • Exploring the Connections Between Technology and Technique
      • The Highly Skilled Body
      • Continuum of Ability in Dance
      • Ability and Autonomy / Re-conceptualizing Ability
      • Reconfiguring Ability: Limitations as Possibilities
      • Bodies and Machines Primary Sources
    • David Dorfman’s “Underground”
    • Ecologies of Beauty
    • Moving Self, Moving Earth
  • Artist Profiles

Welcome to Accelerated Motion: Towards a New Dance Literacy in America!

The site you are about to enter is a series of dynamic and interactive educational materials aimed at fostering a multidisciplinary understanding of how movement ideas are enacted in various aspects of American culture. We believe that learning to see, think and write about dance brings students face to face (or rather, body to body) with their own cultural assumptions, forging potent intellectual connections between historical contexts, social issues, and the development of a critical point of view. Because of the very palpable presence of active, moving bodies in dance, becoming critically conversant about this form of representation will lead students to become increasingly aware of the implications of their own corporeal experiences. Reading and writing about dancing. What an exciting way to integrate visual perception, intellectual ideas, and physical action, connecting students’ minds and their bodies to thinking about their worlds. Depending on your interests, you may choose to follow either the Body in Society pathway with the module on Bodies and Machines, or the Resources for Teaching Dance History route with the section entitled Creating an American Identity. Both of these pathways provide scholarly combinations of primary texts, historical contexts, as well as illustrations and video excerpts of dances. In addition, we have included sample classroom exercises (in observation, writing, and critical discussion) in order to facilitate active learning and support educators who might not be familiar with dance as a humanistic discipline. Because one of our goals with this site is to encourage an exchange of teaching strategies and resources, we have also included an interactive discussion board (blog) which can be accessed here.
  • Accelerated Motion will soon be reviving up in this space. In the meantime, please check us out at:  http://acceleratedmotion.wesleyan.edu/

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