Embodied Imagination

Embodied Imagination is a Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies course taught by Daphne Lowell.

Course Description
Imagination has both conscious and unconscious dimensions: in one we use craft and skill to express something; in the other lies images, intuitions, demons and muses, that fuel (or block) conscious creations. Through the skillful union of both, original, articulate art is made. Also, ideas, images, often contain multiple sensory aspects, and cross disciplinary terrains. To come alive, they must find form in the sensory world, the world of the body. This course will bring students from variety of art disciplines together to explore media outside their training. We'll use Authentic Movement, and explore other materials, to stir the stew of imagination, and create things, thereby provoking fresh perspectives on creativity's dynamics. Designed for students with formal study in some artistic medium, the course will use movement as a primary process, and the body as a potent metaphor, but it assumes and requires no experience in dance.