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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
This beginning level ballet course emphasizes bodily awareness, musicality, vocabulary, dynamic alignment, functional rotation, and class etiquette. Student's technical ability and performance will begin to develop through consistent practice and the investigation of basic ballet vocabulary. Class will include barre, travelling, and center work supported by course readings, presentations, performance viewings and examination of ballet verbal vocabulary.
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2.00 Credits
This course will continue to build on material presented in DANC 1410. Students will experience intermediate approaches to bodily awareness, dynamic alignment and functional rotation. Students will be introduced to intermediate ballet movement and verbal vocabulary. Students will also experience a range of musical accompaniment, contemporary ideas of ballet and expand their understanding of performance and artistry.
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2.00 Credits
This course is a beginning level exploration of modern dance. The course is designed to introduce and explore modern dance ideas through movement, research, observation, and creativity. Daily class will include warm up exercises, across the floor, center phrases, and creative work that stimulates and challenges dancers. Movement will be athletically challenging, artistically nurtured, and rhythmically complex. The course approaches technique and artistry as clearly interwoven principles.
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2.00 Credits
The study of basic tap steps with emphasis on rhythmic accuracy and clarity of tap sounds. May be used for fine arts credit.
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2.00 Credits
This beginning level course is an introduction and exploration of jazz dance technique. Through practical experience, students will encounter various elements of jazz dance that stem from the social dance vernacular in the United States. Course content is drawn from music, rhythm, improvisation and jazz history. Class will move through a structured warm up, travel across the floor and learn center combinations. Course work will be contextualized by class readings, discussion, analysis of dance performance and student created choreography.
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2.00 Credits
This course will include dance techniques drawn from classical jazz dance, lyrical jazz dance, classical and contemporary ballet, dance team technique, and modern dance to give the student a foundation for performance, teaching, coaching, and further study of contemporary jazz dance. This style of dance is popular in private and professional studios, with competitive dance team s in media, and on stage. Daily warmups will include conditioning exercise that emphasize alignment, strength and flexibility, and freedom of movement. Travelling movements, turns, jumps, and floorwork will be drilled and incorporated into choreography. Studio work will be contextualized by online assignments including analysis of video footage of dances made popular in media.
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2.00 Credits
A study of fundamental concepts in dance improvisation and exploration of movement through spontaneous problem-solving. The course is designed to evoke the student?s creative individuality and sense of ensemble through individual as well as partner and group exercises.
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2.00 Credits
A study of various approaches to choreographing for musical theatre and concert dance. Content areas include storytelling, use of music, composing stage pictures, structuring dance steps, running auditions, and rehearsal techniques.
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2.00 Credits
This course is an intermediate level exploration of ballet technique and artistry. This course is designed to explore and enhance technical and artistic proficiency through movement, research, observation and creativity. Daily class will include barre, petite allegro, across the floor and grand allegro, center phrases and creative work that will stimulate and challenge the dancers. Movement material will be a combination of classical ballet, contemporary ballet and somatic exercises. Movement material will be contextualized and processed through course readings, discussions, presentations and papers.
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3.00 Credits
This course will continue to build on material presented in DANC 2410. This course is designed to explore and enhance technical and artistic proficiency through movement, research, observation and creativity. Daily class will include barre, petite allegro, across the floor and grand allegro, center phrases, and creative work that stimulate and challenge the dancers. Movement material will be a combination of classical ballet, contemporary ballet and somatic exercises. Anatomical information is woven into this course to guide the students into further understanding of their bodies kinesthetically, mechanically and artistically. The course approaches technique and artistry as clearly interwoven principles.
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