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.

 

 


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