Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Fall 2021 - CA 354 D100

Voice/Movement III (2)

Class Number: 7270

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 8 – Dec 7, 2021: Tue, Thu, 9:30–11:20 a.m.
    GOLDCORP

  • Corequisites:

    CA 350.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

The third Performance research course in voice and movement. Students with credit for FPA 354 may not take this course for further credit.

COURSE DETAILS:

Body IV: Traces explores the creative and poetic force of recording, accessing, and performing memories stored in the body. Starting from the position that cognition is fundamentally an embodiment practice, participants will work with their bodies as recording devices and consider how sociality and the transmission of information between bodies defines and organizes our flesh. Through the development of transdisciplinary scores and task-based experiments, projects will prioritize collapsing performance and rehearsal to centre continual and ever evolving process-based working methods. The trace is continuous and cyclical. It is at once a form of fragmented memory performed by previous bodies, a way in which experience manifests itself in the present body, and as a way in which a gesture or movement sequence leaves a physical or mental imprint upon future bodies. This course is an invitation to explore and develop individual and collective movement-based practices rooted in choreographic structures.

Grading

  • Attendance and Participation 30%
  • Development of project 40%
  • Practical integration of concepts proposed in the class, engagement with working process and practices 30%

Registrar Notes:

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TEACHING AT SFU IN FALL 2021

Teaching at SFU in fall 2021 will involve primarily in-person instruction, with approximately 70 to 80 per cent of classes in person/on campus, with safety plans in place.  Whether your course will be in-person or through remote methods will be clearly identified in the schedule of classes.  You will also know at enrollment whether remote course components will be “live” (synchronous) or at your own pace (asynchronous).

Enrolling in a course acknowledges that you are able to attend in whatever format is required.  You should not enroll in a course that is in-person if you are not able to return to campus, and should be aware that remote study may entail different modes of learning, interaction with your instructor, and ways of getting feedback on your work than may be the case for in-person classes.

Students with hidden or visible disabilities who may need class or exam accommodations, including in the context of remote learning, are advised to register with the SFU Centre for Accessible Learning (caladmin@sfu.ca or 778-782-3112) as early as possible in order to prepare for the fall 2021 term.