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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
In this course students are introduced to dance performance and composition through improvisation. Working alone, in duets, or small groups, students will experience warming up, guided dancing, and working within improvisational scores, all towards creating improvised compositions. Students will also set short studies in repeatable form in order to build skills in generating materials for choreography out of improvisational practices. Discussion and writing about improvisational experience and processes will supplement direct physical work. 3 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 33-1311 MODERN TECHNIQUE I
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1.00 Credits
Course provides dance majors with an intensive physical conditioning program. Students learn an advanced Pilates mat series to develop core strength and muscular tone as well as improve flexibility, coordination, and balance. In addition to the mat exercises, students will also tone and strengthen the body using different exercise equipment. Various topics will be discussed throughout the semester including the concepts of neutral spine, breath, nutrition for dancers, and proper spinal alignment. 1 CREDIT
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1.00 Credits
In this course the general difficulty of all aspects of the discipline increase. Instruction also introduces lyrical jazz, rhythmic syncopation, and increasingly difficult dance combinations. Students' musicality and performance skills continue to grow as technical weaknesses are mastered. 1 CREDIT PREREQUISITES:33-1231 JAZZ DANCE: BEGINNING
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1.00 Credits
Course continues and expands on skills covered in Tap Dance: Beginning. Basic steps are perfected, and more difficult steps and combinations are learned. Longer sequences set to music are mastered, and attention is given to ensemble work, rhythmic variations, and performance skills. Tap shoes are required. 1 CREDIT
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3.00 Credits
Students build on skills learned in Tai Chi Chuan: Beginning by completing and perfecting the Yang ("modified" or "short form") school of Tai Chi. In addition, students learn more difficult movement, begin to practice the self-defense aspects of the form, cultivate a heightened awareness of the discipline's therapeutic applications, and build a firm foundation for a lifelong relationship with the form. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES:33-1261 TAI CHI CHUAN: BEGINNING
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1.00 Credits
Course takes the basic poses learned in the beginning course to more advanced levels, introducing new postures and increasing challenges to muscle flexibility and strength. Students deepen their understanding and practice of yoga and solidify a lifelong relationship with this discipline for personal health and relaxation. 1 CREDIT PREREQUISITES:33-1271 YOGA: BEGINNING
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1.00 Credits
Course develops physical proficiency in the performance of more complex dance materials, emphasizing the deepening of technical practices. Similar materials are covered but with increasing demands and higher expectations for competent execution. Technical weaknesses are addressed as students' understanding, range, and body control increase. Emphasis is on building the physical capacities of the body with awareness of alignment, developing rhythmic clarity and spatial intent, and learning skills of focus and concentration. Students must audition for placement at this level. 1 CREDIT PREREQUISITES:33-1311 MODERN TECHNIQUE I
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1.00 Credits
Course may only be taken concurrently with 33-2312, Modern Technique II. See that course for description. 1 CREDIT CONCURRENT: 33-2312 MODERN TECHNIQUE II
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1.00 Credits
Course emphasizes deepening technical practices introduced at the beginning level. This level continues to drill the basic movement vocabulary of ballet and begins to link the basics together to create more difficult movement challenges. Course develops a deeper physical proficiency in the performance of linked ballet movements, expecting the student to demonstrate and understand the principles, practices, and vocabulary common to ballet. Students demonstrate efficiency of movement and proper alignment practices while performing linked steps. Students must audition for placement at this level. 1 CREDIT PREREQUISITES:33-1321 BALLET I
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1.00 Credits
Course may only be taken concurrently with Ballet II (33-2322). See that course for description. 1 CREDIT CONCURRENT: 33-2322 BALLET II
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