Features first-year students in dance lessons in Prague.
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Category: Europe
HUM 195 Theorizing Dance and Language, taught by Cynthia Hansen, Anthropology, and Celeste Miller, emeritus Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. In this course, participants will play the role of detectives, exploring cross-disciplinary collaboration between linguistics and choreography, fields that both study human expression. Students will delve into how these fields intersect and diverge, and how ideas flow between them in cross-disciplinary partnerships. Course travel takes place in Prague (spring break 2025) and London (May 2025).
See attached post for videos of the students:
Explore pictures featuring captions from Danielle Rogers.
Students, Nhi Vu ’28, Ty Walker ’28, and Lorelei Balmer ’28, on a tour of the Czech Museum of Literature in Prague.
The class strike a pose at the end of a dance workshop in the classroom space.
James Applegate ’28, Robin Linse ’28, Xander Leon Napier ’28, Rachel Krinke ’28, Maddy Rudolph ’28, and a translator look at drawings from a 1970s Czech experiment in the Czech Academy of Sciences Archive.
Students arranged to create a waterfall effect by a statue located in Vyšehrad–a fortress created originally in the mid-10th century.
The class stands in front of a statue of King Wenceslas in Wenceslas Square, a prominent square in New Town Prague. This location was the site of many anti-communist protests during the 1989 Velvet Revolution.
Students moving in a dance workshop combining Physics and Dance with Czech Choreographer Barbora Latalova.
Students, Olivia, Ty Walker ’28, Lorelei Balmer, ’28 and Maddy Rudolph ’28, using public transportation to and from the National Archives in Prague, Czechia.
Ty Walker ’28 and James Applegate ’28 stare up at the beautiful architecture of Prague during a tour of the city.
Robin Linse ’28 listens to our “Survival Czech” class on the first full day in Prague. We also learned terms related to our course topics (i.e. “divadlo” on the board means theatre).
Students listen as a speaker at the Czech National Archives explains a 20th century system of logging guests and citizens within Czechoslovakia, included were documents about Masaryk, their first president.
Photos contributed by Pranav Bhandari of their IES Off-Campus experience in France in Fall of 2024. Also features pictures of students Amika Matteson, 26′. Isa Voinescu, 26′.
From Pranav:
This is me and my friends at La Fête Foraine, a travelling carnival that stays in various cities for a month at a time. It is set up in less than 48 hours but spans at least 300 meters and has rides up to 60 feet tall! I really enjoy amusement park rides, so I cooked up plans for me and my friends to go there 8 or 9 times in the one month that they were in Nantes.
Among my other pictures there are some of my best memories from Nantes. My host family, who were truly a blessing during my study abroad. They went well above and beyond their obligations as my host family in taking care of me and really made me feel integrated into their family, the city of Nantes, and French culture. Nantes had a couple of very lively “Christmas Markets” with food, drinks, and pop-up shops set up during December. The Christmas tree is from the market close to the IES Abroad center in Nantes. There’s also me and my classmates during our final theatre performance for our theatre course, which was an incredible experience because I had never even done theatre before, let alone in a foreign language.
My study abroad as a whole was one of the most fantastic experiences of my life. I encourage anyone and everyone who has the opportunity to study abroad to go for it.