EAS354H1

Body, Movement, Japan

This course will explore theories and practices of the body and movement in Japan by way of a series of associated territories: From the 17th century walking poetry of Basho to various political resistance movements of the 1960s, from the revolutionary dance experiments of Min Tanaka to Buddhist inspired philosophies of Body-Mind and physics inspired theories of movement by Japanese scientists to the movement of information, people, and capital at the contemporary moment.