20 courses with the subject DANC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
DANC 111Dance 1 Course count1
This course introduces movement as a form of personal, cultural, and creative expression. It blends studio practice with discussion and research. Students engage with diverse dance traditions, from social and cultural practices to concert dance, developing foundational skills while critically reflecting on how dance shapes and is shaped by society. No prior movement experience is required. GPA units: 1 Common Area: Arts Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
This course investigates dance history through a critical lens, questioning the privileging of certain forms and recognizing the unacknowledged contributions of marginalized communities. Through movement practice, readings, video analysis, and discussions, students will explore how culture, politics, and identity intersect with dance. Students are encouraged to research and reimagine their own relationships to movement. No prior experience is required. GPA units: 1 Common Area: Arts Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Balinese Dance is a dance performance class which surveys the rich classical, contemporary, and folk traditions of music, mask, dance, and theatre from Bali, Indonesia. Hinduism plays a significant role in the performing arts of Bali and will be discussed in relationship to performance. Students rehearse and perform with Gamelan Gita Sari, the Holy Cross gamelan orchestra. This course can be taken for two semesters. GPA units: 1 Common Area: Arts, Cross-Cultural Studies Typically Offered: Fall, Spring DANC 151 — Ballet 1 - 2 Course count: 1 Beginning ballet technique is offered for beginners and those with less than six months of dance experience. The course will emphasize alignment, ballet positions and vocabulary, as well as the mastery of skills such as turning, jumping, and coordination. In addition to technique the course will introduce dance history and dance appreciation through readings, videos, and class discussion. To offer a richer and more contemporary experience of ballet, students will depart from the ballet idiom and experiment with creating a personal movement vocabulary. This course can be taken for two semesters. GPA units: 1 Common Area: Arts Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Beginning ballet technique is offered for beginners and those with less than six months of dance experience. The course will emphasize alignment, ballet positions and vocabulary, as well as the mastery of skills such as turning, jumping, and coordination. In addition to technique, the course will introduce dance history and dance appreciation through readings, videos, and class discussion. To offer a richer and more contemporary experience of ballet, students will depart from the ballet idiom and experiment with creating a personal movement vocabulary. This course can be taken for two semesters.
A basic introductory contemporary dance technique course for beginners or students with less than six months of dance experience. Students learn beginning contemporary dance exercises and movement combinations. The basic components of contemporary dance and its place in 20th-century art will be examined. This course can be taken for two semesters. GPA units: 1 Common Area: Arts Typically Offered: Alternate Years, Fall
This course is an introduction to movements from the African Diaspora, focusing on traditional Haitian Folkloric dances and the distinct rhythms and characters of Nago, Mayi, Ibo, Banda, Yanvalou and Kongo. Through videos, discussion, technique and embodied practice, students gain an appreciation of the rich cultural heritage of Afro-Haitian dance and its unique connection to modern dance. GPA units: 1 Common Area: Arts, Cross-Cultural Studies
Dance & Technology course introduces students to a range of digital media tools for performance and choreography. Students will learn how to perform with live cameras and projections, and they will gain programming skills for live video capture, chroma keying, projection mapping, and motion-tracking. We will also look at the history and aesthetics of screen dance and choreography for the camera. Students will learn video editing software through Adobe Suites to create their own screen dances. GPA units: 1 Common Area: Arts
Dance & Technology course introduces students to a range of digital media tools for performance and choreography. Students will learn how to perform with live cameras and projections, and they will gain programming skills for live video capture, chroma keying, projection mapping, and motion-tracking. We will also look at the history and aesthetics of screen dance and choreography for the camera. Students will learn video editing software through Adobe Suites to create their own screen dances.
Dance Composition introduces students to principles and practices of creating dance choreography as a form of human expression. Methods of learning include guided improvisations, solo and small group presentations, written assignments, performance viewings (live and video), observation, motif notation, and class discussion. Students will , develop an understanding of the choreographic/creative process and its relevance to other areas of study. GPA units: 1 Common Area: Arts Typically Offered: Annually
This course covers a fundamental understanding of the terminology and principles of the Broadway dance genre. Students engage in an historical approach to learning, looking at the origins of the form and famous musicals and choreographers, while mastering some of the earliest Broadway dances and traditions. They explore technical and historical aspects of various other dance genres such as jazz, tap, and ballroom and define Broadway dance in relationship to its social, cultural, and political context. GPA units: 1 Common Area: Arts Typically Offered: Alternate Years, Fall
Advanced Balinese Dance builds on the background and techniques covered in Balinese Dance 1-2. Students delve more deeply into the traditions of Bali and perform more advanced repertoire in a concert setting. Students may take this course for two semesters with the permission of the instructor, progressing to advanced repertoire of both traditional and contemporary Balinese dances, including solos. GPA units: 1 Common Area: Arts, Cross-Cultural Studies Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
The class will follow a traditional format, Including barre, adagio, waltz, petit allegro, and grand allegro. In addition to technique, the course will include dance history and dance appreciation through readings, videos, and class discussion. To offer a richer and more contemporary experience of ballet, students will depart from the ballet idiom and experiment with creating a personal movement vocabulary. Students may take this course for a total of two semesters.
This course explores the personal and cultural narratives embedded in movement. Through readings, discussions, and movement activities, students reflect on how their bodies carry stories and how societal influences shape physical expression. Students will develop a deeper awareness of movement as both a personal and cultural practice using exploratory movement and experiential anatomy. No prior dance experience is required. GPA units: 1 Common Area: Arts Typically Offered: Annually
Students build on foundational exercises, improvisation and movement combinations, and apply these skills to study in the context of dance circles and battles. The course emphasizes the cultural and historical roots of the form along with key artists who have contributed to its evolution. one semester of THEA171 Hip Hop / Breaking 1-2. GPA units: 1 Common Area: Arts, Cross-Cultural Studies
1 year of dance experience with Hip Hop and Breaking or
DANC 273Street Styles Course count1
This course explores the various styles that make up street dances, introducing a range of factors related to technique, history, music, and cultural context. Students navigate through the evolution of hip hop from its birthplace in the Bronx, NY through its development into a global phenomenon influenced by geopolitics, race, gender, and other social structures. Different street styles combine from fundamental movements to create more advanced choreography and freestyling. GPA units: 1 Common Area: Arts Typically Offered: Alternate Years
DANC 275Hip Hop: Breakbeats and Moves Course count1
This course is an introduction to the mutual influences between music and dance in Hip Hop culture. Students combine creative dance processes with strategic music curation to study the histories and foundations of Hip Hop; engage with marginalized voices and perspectives within Hip Hop; and develop work in both music and dance to develop insights. GPA units: 1 Common Area: Arts Typically Offered: Alternate Years 2026-2027 Catalog 283
, An intermediate-level contemporary dance technique class. Students grow in understanding the aesthetic of contemporary dance both by practicing contemporary dance exercises and combinations and by engaging in critical discussion of selected dance performances in class and on video. Students may take this course for a total of two semesters, progressing to choreography and performance. GPA units: 1 Common Area: Arts Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
This multi-level course is is built around an end of semester performance. Students will learn and create movement which will become a finished piece. It requires rehearsal and performance of major dance segments in a main stage production or a dance concert. Permission required. GPA units: 1 Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Designed for the individual needs of advanced acting students. Rehearsal and performance in a major production is the main basis of grading. GPA units: 1 Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
