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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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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the musculoskeletal structures most directly involved in the performance of dance so that they can identify the bones, joints and muscles that lie under the skin anywhere in the body. In addition, students will learn how the skeletal muscles work to produce joint movement, how those muscles can be conditioned and what patterns of muscle action are most effective for producing the basic movements of ballet and contemporary dance techniques. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 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
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the musculoskeletal structures most directly involved in the performance of dance so that they can identify the bones, joints and muscles that lie under the skin anywhere in the body. In addition, students will learn how the skeletal muscles work to produce joint movement, how those muscles can be conditioned and what patterns of muscle action are most effective for producing the basic movements of ballet and contemporary dance techniques. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 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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1.00 Credits
This introductory course is structured to free expression, investigate form and heighten concentration. Structured dance improvisational problems are given to lead the student to simultaneously invent and perform movement without pre-planning. Each class includes a brief warm-up followed by many different and changing forms-group movement, solos, trios and contact improvisation which begins with duets. Emphasis is placed on the development in each student of a heightened sensitivity and a conscientiousness about the creative impulse. Personal movement style and habits and the role of improvisation in both performance and the creative process are thoroughly explored. 1.000 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 course capitalizes on the skills garnered in improvisation class by carefully leading students into the process of composing short studies based on a variety of abstract themes. Very specific limitations provide the framework of the initial studies and students are encouraged to acknowledge personal impulse and style while exploring within this base. Later, emphasis is placed on the growth of content and context out of these abstract explorations and studies become more ambitious. Supportive group feedback is central to the development of every student's work. Students present both a group and solo work as final projects at the end of the semester. 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 course guides students into exploring more complex and personal motivations for moving. Students are expected to be independent, responsible and self-motivated in this context. There is freedom to arrange independent projects. Emphasis is placed on giving and receiving constructive well-informed criticism. Self-analysis and ability to articulate well are important skills fostered in this class. All of the work is expected to be in line with specific personal goals that the student and instructor establish together early in the term. Group projects are encouraged in the second half of the term. 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
People dance and use dance to fulfill many needs, goals and responsibilities. This course surveys world dance forms in terms of the many ways dance functions as an expression of culture and traces dance from its role in folk and religious traditions to its emergence as a theater art. Students study the impulse for dance in several cultures, looking to the practices which gave rise to particular dance forms. The formal properties and evolution of various dance forms are explored. The course also considers certain "art" dances made by American choreographers inspired by non-Western dance forms. 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 course explores the forms, contents and contexts of black traditions that played a crucial role in shaping American theatrical dance; identifies dances from the African American vernacular that were transferred from the social space to the concert stage; and focuses on such pioneers as Helmsley Winfield, Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Edna Guy and Alvin Ailey along with Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Lester Horton and George Balanchine. 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 course focuses on the evolution of a genre or choreographer in historical context. 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
This course is the culmination of the creative work required of all BFA students. Students create longer and more complete works. They are asked to use larger groups of dancers, more sophisticated concepts and more counterpoint fugue. 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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