Week One: INTRODUCTIONS
9/29
- 10 – 12: Questioning (both)
- 1 – 3: Complicating (both)
9/30
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Liminality in Movement and Sound (both)
10/1
- 10 – 11:30: Liminality in Movement and Sound (both)
- 11:30 – 1: seminars
10/2
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Hinduism and Yoga (both)
Week Two: ASIAN RELIGIONS AND THEIR SACRED PLACES
10/6
- 10 – 12: Yoga, continued (RE)
- 1 – 3: East Asian Spiritualities (SW)
10/7
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Moving Through Sacred Spaces (RE)
10/8
- 10 – 11:30: Chant in Sacred Spaces
- 11:30 – 1: seminars
10/9
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Judaism and Christianity (SW)
Week Three: MIDEAST RELIGIONS AND THEIR SACRED PLACES
10/13
- 10 – 12: Islam and Sufism (SW)
- 1 – 3 : Sacred Architecture, Sacred Geometry (SW)
10/14
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Sacred Geometry of Movement (RE)
10/15
- 10 – 11:30: Sound and Movement in the Otherworld (both)
- 11:30 – 1: seminars
10/16
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Guest Presenter: David Trasoff, scholar/sarod player
Week Four: SACRED TEXTS AND WRITING ABOUT BELIEF SYSTEMS
10/20
- 10 – 12: Writing About Religion and Spirituality (SW)
- 1 – 3: Moving and Imaging (RE)
10/21
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Body as Text, Reading Body, Intent, and Movement
10/22
- 10 – 11:30: Reading Sound (SW)
- 11:30 – 1: seminars
10/23
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Notations (both)
Week Five: TRADITIONAL AND NATURE-BASED SPIRITUALITIES
10/27
- 10 – 12: Aspects of the Local, Aspects of Time (SW)
- 1 – 3: Film: Primal Mind; discussion (RE)
10/28
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Traditional Musics and Bioregions (SW)
10/29
- 10 – 11:30: Film: Dance and Human History; discussion (RE)
- 11:30 – 1: seminars
10/30
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Vodun (SW)
Week Six: TRANCE AND RITUAL
11/3
- 10 – 12: Drawing a Path (RE)
- 1 – 3: Rice, Bamboo, and Rattles (SW)
11/4
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Film: Bali: Masterpiece of the Gods; discussion (SW)
11/5
- 10 – 11:30: Ritual Movement (RE)
- 11:30 – 1: seminars
11/6
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Shamanism (SW)
Week Seven: RESPECT, HUMILITY, AND HONOR
11/10
- 10 – 12: Understanding the Shadow (both)
- 1 – 3: Shadow Puppetry (SW)
11/11
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Presentations on Sacred Music (students)
11/12
- 10 – 1: Creating a Path in Space (RE) – in College Rec Center rm. 116!
11/13
- 10 – 3: Creating a Path in Space (RE) – in College Rec Center rm. 116!
Week Eight: PILGRIMAGE
11/17
- 10 – 12: What it Means to Leave (both)
- 1 – 3: Film: The Way, part 1; discussion
11/18
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Film: The Way, part 2; discussion
11/19
- 10 – 11:30: What it Means to Return (both)
- 11:30 – 1: seminars
11/20
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Preparing for the Final Presentation
THANKSGIVING WEEK – DO NOT COME TO CLASS!
Week Nine: SACRILEGE AND VIOLENCE
12/1
- 10 – 12: Colonialism, Music, and Religious Conflict (SW)
- 1 – 3: Environmental Justice and the Body (RE)
12/2
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Academic Statement workshop
12/3
- 10 – 11:30: Love (RE)
- 11:30 – 1: seminars
12/4
- 10 – 12: music and movement workshops
- 1 – 3: Rehearsal for Transformation Rituals [MEET IN THE DANCE STUDIO]
Week Ten: FINAL PRESENTATIONS
12/8
- 10 – 12: Final Rehearsal and Warm-ups [MEET IN THE DANCE STUDIO ALL DAY]
- 1 – 3: Transformation Rituals
12/9
- 10 – 12: Transformation Rituals [MEET IN THE DANCE STUDIO ALL DAY]
- 1 – 3: Transformation Rituals
12/10
- 10 – 1 : Academic Statement and discussion [Com 117]
12/11
- 10 – 12: Spend this time preparing something delicious!
- 1 – 3: Sacred Foods Potluck at Sean’s house
Week Eleven: EVALUATIONS
Please sign up for an evaluation conference and DO NOT TRAVEL until at least Wednesday of evaluation week. Tell your parents NOW if they might even think about making plane reservations that any flight before Wednesday, December 17, is not an option. You think we’re joking? We are not.