Dancing in Prague: Danielle Rogers ’28

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:

Videos of Dance Lessons in Prague: Danielle Roger’s 28

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 20^th century system of logging guests and citizens within Czechoslovakia, included were documents about Masaryk, their first president.