Popular Dance: Street, Stage, Screen

The module explores popular dance practices across a range of contexts such as popular screendance (an intertextual network connecting social media, television, music video and film), local communities of globally interconnected practice (taught and social settings), participatory events (carnivals, competitions, protests) and popular performance (staged events, for example stage musicals or neo-burlesque). You will discuss critical concepts in the study of popular dance such as identity, value, globalisation, commercialisation, cultural capital, power and resistance, appropriation (e.g. copyright), labour and affect.