Dancing Chicago

(CHST 26225)

With the publication of Dancing on the Third Coast: Chicago Dance Histories as text (University of Illinois Press, eds. Susan Manning and Lizzie Leopold), this course takes students out of the classroom to experience, historicize, and critically engage with dance across the city. Students will ask how social and theatrical dancing has shaped the city, and how the city in turn has shaped dancing bodies—in nightclubs and in settlement houses, at world’s fairs and in theaters, on film and in the street. With the new historical perspective and critical view, students will produce a dance event as a final project.