Jane Jacobs described her neighborhood’s daily habits as a “sidewalk ballet,” a valorization of the rhythm and movement that characterize urban life. Jacobs’ invocation of ballet–a highly technical and stylized form of dance–unbares the routine movements that structure our inhabitation of cities. This course uses the framework of urban choreography to look at these patterned practices of motion from the scale of the body to the street, neighborhood, region, and globe. We examine the well-oiled grooves of sidewalk interaction, walking, crowd flows, transit and vehicular circulation as well as deliberate ruptures such as flash mobs, police surveillance, and protests. We analyze how various groups comport their bodies and move through space, often constrained by social factors such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and other dimensions. Students will examine their own movement habits as well as devise aspirational choreographies of urban flows.