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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course is open to first-year students with an interest in dance in practice and in theory. Students need not have danced previously. We will taste ballet, contemporary, and Capoeira (Afro-Brazilian) dance in a handful of master classes while considering dance as a socio-cultural mode of expression with a fine arts agenda. Besides a textbook, field trips to live concerts by professional dancers will be included and are required as "texts" for this course. Students should be prepared to commit to 4 field trips over the course of the semester.(4 credits)
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
A general category used only in the evaluation of transfer credit. (1-4 credits)
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2.00 Credits
This course, open to students with previous dance study (although not necessarily in Capoeira or Flamenco techniques), focuses on the same forms as are brought into focus in World Dance I. In this more advanced class, the instructor will assume students will be able to assimilate physical information more quickly. Therefore, this course will cover these forms in greater detail and with greater depth in the same amount of time. Course work includes instruction in technique and performance observation.(2 credits)
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2.00 Credits
This course, for students who come with dance training, offers students a heightened movement experience with an emphasis on technical development and aspects of performance. Exercises emphasizing placement, flexibility and strength are taught, with specific attention given to gravity, transition, phrasing and movement of the torso and limbs in opposition and harmony. Concert attendance, journal writing, video journals and research on contemporary choreographers' work would be examples of the outside-the-studio experience.(2 credits)
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2.00 Credits
A certain amount of review of the basic work precedes the study of a greater variety of steps. There is increased emphasis on epaulement, pirouettes, adagio and petiti and grand allegro in center work. The level of technique in the second semester expands to include longer, more controlled adagios, more variety of turns, effort to improve elevation and extension, and a development of port de bras in relationship to carriage and performance. Attendance at performances and a limited number of reaction papers are required.(2 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course will frame Western concert dance as a complex political activity made public through various agendas of race, creed, national origin, sexuality, and gender. Students will simultaneously be exposed to poststructuralist epistemology and feminist theory while they are meeting a survey of historical works. In this way, the course is less about coming to know a canon of "masterworks" and more about learning how to interrogate dance in any culture from a western perspective.(4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course will explore the methods and elements of dance composition through improvisational exercises and compositional studies. Through the manipulation of space, time, and dynamics in spontaneous movement exercises compositional elements will be discovered and explored, and a developing understanding of choreography will emerge. Students will explore solo, duet, and group improvisations. In addition to learning and practicing the art of moving in the moment, students will be required to create, analyze and critique original compositional studies. A portion of this course will be devoted to learning and understanding the principles of Contact Improvisation as a tool for comprehending the forces of the body in motion and further broadening choreographic possibilities.(4 credits)
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
A general category used only in the evaluation of transfer credit. (1-4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course will consider how women artists have expressed what goes into the building of a home. We will think about different settings (during peacetime, wartime, in various cultures with or without partnes and/or families), in different individual needs and tastes, and different genres for the recording of that expression. This will entail four kinds of considerations: First, we will read sections from Timeless Way of Building, Language of Landscape and House Thinking; then we will deconstruct those readings to explore issues addressed by feminist theory, issues like comparable worth, coming to voice, single-parenting. All the while we will look at those issues expressed in artworks by and about women -- paintings, dances, music, novels, short-stories, and finally over the course of the semester, we will create a work ourselves around a physical dwelling -- whether that means dressing a window, painting a wall, or making something physical happen within it. No dancing involved. (Not offered 2008-2009) (4 Credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course investigates the historical aesthetic practices of a human society outside of the West along its religious, political, economic and ecological foundations and accomplishments. The course will include emergence of other dance forms from the neighboring regions, focusing on their emergence as an expression of devotion, ethnicity and a means for intercultural communications. In Spring 2008, this course will center on the Southern Slavic region, including Slovenia, Serbia, Croutia, Macedonia, Bosnia, and Herzegevina. (Not offered 2008-2009) (4 Credits)
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