DA 205

This course surveys the history of dance as a theatrical art and entertainment in the USA between 1890 and 2010. Taking vaudeville as the jumping off point, students will learn about the wide variety of dance forms that have found a home in north American theaters: ballet; modern and post-modern concert dance; and the many forms of musical theater through to the dance spectaculars of the late 1990s, early 2000s. Students will unpack the many ways in which these apparently distinct areas of dance practice have, in fact, often been very closely connected.