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0.00 Credits
These course sequences build strength, stamina and technical skills needed today by male dancers. Barrework focuses on alignment, balance, strength and flexibility. Center combinations build to multiple grand pirouettes, increased elevation and jumps with batterie. Combinations across the floor emphasize grand allegro and the ability to cover space. Men's Ballet is offered twice weekly in conjunction with Ballet II, III or IV, depending on each student's level. 0.000 Credit Hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Dance Department
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3.00 Credits
This beginning level course sequence lays the groundwork for all that follows in the advanced levels. The basic warm up is taught: flat backs, primitive squat, descent and ascent, lateral stretches, release swings, leg swings and deep lunges. The shapes that will be used throughout the training in Horton technique are emphasized: the T positions, stag position, cross lunge and coccyx balance. The Horton technique was designed with studies to stretch and strengthen different areas of the body. Many of the beginning level studies which are taught focus on the achilles tendon, the abdominal muscles and movements that lengthen the spine and the hamstring muscles. Simple combinations of movements which include turns and jumps are taught to introduce musicality and dynamics to the beginning dancer's vocabulary. Performance qualities are emphasized at the very beginning of the dancer's training. 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Dance Department
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3.00 Credits
This beginning level course sequence lays the groundwork for all that follows in the advanced levels. The basic warm up is taught: flat backs, primitive squat, descent and ascent, lateral stretches, release swings, leg swings and deep lunges. The shapes that will be used throughout the training in Horton technique are emphasized: the T positions, stag position, cross lunge and coccyx balance. The Horton technique was designed with studies to stretch and strengthen different areas of the body. Many of the beginning level studies which are taught focus on the achilles tendon, the abdominal muscles and movements that lengthen the spine and the hamstring muscles. Simple combinations of movements which include turns and jumps are taught to introduce musicality and dynamics to the beginning dancer's vocabulary. Performance qualities are emphasized at the very beginning of the dancer's training. 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Dance Department
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2.00 Credits
This class is based on the Pilates exercise method of mind/body contrology. The emphasis is on alignment, placement, posture and injury prevention. The class is conducted with music, utilizing rhythmical repetitions and flowing movements. Concentration on body awareness, anatomy, correct body usage and breath control result in a strong, toned and fully functioning body. 2.000 Credit Hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Dance Department
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2.00 Credits
This class is based on the Pilates exercise method of mind/body contrology. The emphasis is on alignment, placement, posture and injury prevention. The class is conducted with music, utilizing rhythmical repetition and flowing movements. Concentration on body awareness, anatomy, correct body usage and breath control result in astrong, toned and fully functioning body. 2.000 Credit Hours 2.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Dance Department
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2.00 Credits
A supplemental class for advanced beginning students, this class leads them to explore the different muscles that enable the body to work properly while standing. Work on placement and alignment is done while lying on the floor, using both turned out and parallel positions. Instruction is given on the proper use of energy as a means to lengthen muscles and freeing the body from improper tension. The last half-hour class is a standing barre that requires students to apply their experiences from the floorwork. 2.000 Credit Hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Dance Department
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2.00 Credits
A supplemental class for immediate and advanced students, this level develops in the student a balance of strength, flexibility and endurance. Injury prevention and the maintenance of a healthy body are focused on intently. Specific Pilates-based exercises are taught that accelerate the training process. Work in turned-out positions and the elongation of muscles through proper use of breath and energy are some of the basic components of this class. The last half-hour of class is a standing barre that requires the students to apply their experiences from the floorwork. Depending on the class size, additional work may involve specific coaching based on each dancer's needs and challenges. 2.000 Credit Hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Dance Department
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2.00 Credits
This class for beginners provides an understanding of basic breathing exercises and synchronized breath with movement. It increases the body's overall flexibility and strength through a series of seated kneeling, lying and standing exercises that relate the Yoga basics with fundamentals of dance to develop a sense of balance, control, symmetry and line. It develops the student's ability to unlock spinal energy blocks and open the central nervous system through arching, curling, lateral, twisting and circular movements of the spine. It prepares the musculature and ligamental attachments for increased flexibility and strength particularly in the hips, shoulders and chest. Most importantly, it provides and opportunity for each student to examine and maximize his or her own unique potential as a creative dancer and in life. 2.000 Credit Hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Dance Department
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2.00 Credits
This class takes the basic movements taught in Yoga I and develops them into a more fluid series that further increases the strength and flexibility already achieved in the body. It develops a sense of creativity and freedom in the body that further relates this particular system of Yoga to dance in all of its aspects. It endorses each student's responsibility to and for him/himself as artist, performer and person. 2.000 Credit Hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Dance Department
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3.00 Credits
This introductory course sequence in Modern technique teaches the basic vocabulary rooted in the contraction and release for beginners. This technique divides the class into three equal segments: floorwork, standing work in the center and combinations that travel across the floor. The floorwork develops a strong expressive torso as the source of movement with simple breathing exercises that build to contraction and release exercises in various positions. The spiral position of the back leads into turns around the back in 4th position, adding the legs with the back leg extension series. Standing exercise in the center emphasize the use of the leg and the coordination of the legs, arms and torso with the contraction and release and oppositional spiral of the torso in relation to the legs. Short combinations in the center and across the floor focus on covering space and shifting weight. 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Dance Department
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