Unruly Bodies

Discover how to test one's boundaries between stillness and motion, memory and presence, identity, and transformation. “Unruly bodies" refers to physical forms that refuse to conform to traditional, idealized, or sanitized standards of how a body should look, act, or be controlled and instead celebrates all different bodies and their evolution Students will focus on treating the body as the medium, with materiality at the forefront. Class time is open to all students and will rely on historical and contemporary theories like Fluxus and Somatic Therapy by engaging in group movement exercises, practice-based research, critiques, and interdisciplinary experiments.