Description
This course examines the evolving relationship between sound and movement as a central concern in contemporary performance, choreography, and interdisciplinary artistic research. Historically, many artistic forms have treated sound and movement as hierarchically ordered—most commonly positioning movement in rhythmic service to music. Conversely, modern and postmodern performance practices have challenged this paradigm by decoupling movement from musical structure and reimagining their interdependence.Through a practice-based, research-driven laboratory, students will engage in sustained exploration of sound and movement as coequal, interrelated phenomena. Working in collaboration with live musicians and fellow performers, participants will develop strategies of embodied listening, responsive movement, and compositional experimentation. The course proposes sound as a form of movement and movement as a sonic event, opening new perceptual and creative frameworks in which one may “see sound” and “hear movement.”Studio work will be supported by critical readings and discussion, with particular attention to seminal texts such as John Cage’s Four Statements on the Dance. The course emphasizes process, inquiry, and reflection, fostering rigorous artistic research that informs contemporary approaches to choreography, performance, and sonic composition.
