DANC 2330 - Improvisation

Institution:

Utah Tech University

Subject:

Dance

Description:

For students interested in experiencing and developing skills in dance improvisation. Students are led through guided explorations as a means to gaining an understanding of the elements of dance, developing performance skills, gaining sensitivity and spontaneity in group interactions, and acquiring tools for movement invention. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Identify and explain the basic elements of dance: time, space, and energy. 2. Execute a greater sense of presence and self-expression in dance performance. 3. Respond spontaneously to the movements of other dancers and environmental stimuli. 4. Analyze personal movement tendencies as well as the means to expand personal movement vocabularies and creative inventiveness. 5. Apply a sense of increased sensitivity to other dancers as well as a variety of dance spaces. 6. Recall and formulate movement created through improvisation. 7. Analyze dance performance, both verbally and in writing. 8. Create, revise, perform, and assess improvisational dance scores. FA

Credits:

2.00

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Instructional Type:

Lab

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Institution Website:

www.utahtech.edu/

Phone Number:

(435) 652-7500

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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