This seminar explores dance as a site for developing and testing forms of ethical attention. Over the course of the semester, we will consider philosophical writings by thinkers such as Aristotle, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch. Alongside these texts, we also will analyze a range of live and recorded dance performances to better understand attention as an embodied and relational practice. Works by artists such as Merce Cunningham, Sarah Michelson, Trajal Harrell, and Eiko Otake will especially ground these efforts, presenting dance as an exercise of judgment, care, and presence. We also will engage in a sustained consideration of the studio. This is a timely and exciting project. As technologies increasingly shape our attention, this course asks what dance practice and spectatorship might teach us about learning to attend to the world and to each other, while remaining accountable to what we perceive.