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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Ballet III is an advanced level ballet course, expanding the student's repertoire and proficiency of ballet steps, including advanced steps and the basics of ballet choreography. Substantial previous ballet training is recommended.
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2.00 Credits
This course is a continuing development of tap dance technique (introduced in TAP 1 and Tap 2) with emphasis on proper tap technique, more advanced rhythms and combinations, musicality, improvisational skills, individual expression and artistry.
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3.00 Credits
This course aims to provide a thorough background of dance as a fundamental form of human expression. Topics shall include the historical roots and recent status of theatrical dance forms, recent trends, and evaluation of dance as an art form in relation to larger society. Explored are physiological, sociological, and psychological implications of a variety of dance forms. Film and other materials focus on parallel development in related arts. As in most liberal arts education, these connections to related arts add to the student's understanding and broadened perspective of how the arts thread together seemingly diverse aspects of our society.
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to give the students experience learning new and/or existing choreography in a professional rehearsal setting. Admission to the course is by audition or permission of the instructor. Auditions take place the first week of fall semester; email the instructor for audition details.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a theory and practice course, designed for students interested in exploring the layered social and cultural history of Cuba, through the lens of its national dance, the rumba. Cuban rumba is made up of three different dances: guaguanco, yambu, and columbia; which this course will focus on embodying, while simultaneously examining its history and place within society. Inside the theoretical conversations, the focus will shift and build from its African and Spanish lineage to social repression on the island, architecture as a container for community and performance, gender agency, and cultural identity appropriation.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Research, creative projects, reports, readings in dance. Students must submit applications to advisors one semester in advance of registration.
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3.00 Credits
The art of dance composition. Basic elements of space, rhythms, and motion dynamics. Students design original movement, progressing from simple to complex solo and group forms.
Prerequisite:
DAN 441 requires a prerequisite of one of the following courses: DAN 232, DAN 233, DAN 234, DAN 332, DAN 333, or DAN 334.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the appropriate methods, materials, and skills needed for preparing and staging dance in a musical production. Special emphasis will be given to the choreographic process as well as the role of the choreographer.
Prerequisite:
DAN 442 requires a prerequisite of one of the following courses: DAN 232, DAN 233, DAN 234, DAN 332, DAN 333, or DAN 334.
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2.00 Credits
The purpose of this course shall be the study of various elements of performance and dance production. All are integrated into a final performance given in the spring semester. Admittance is by audition during the fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive examination of a selected area of study in dance. Topics will be announced in advance.
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