27 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 107Ballet I
A beginning course in ballet technique, including basic positions, beginning patterns and exercises. Students develop an awareness of the many ways their body can move, an appreciation of dance as an artistic expression and a recognition of the dancer as an athlete. Offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026 Grading: S/CR/NC Credits: 1 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education Tags: DANC Movement Practice & Performance Faculty: Jennifer Bader
This course seeks to provide an underlying awareness of body structure and function. Using movement to expand knowledge of our anatomy will encourage participants to integrate information with experience. Heightened body awareness and class studies are designed to activate the general learning process. Offered: Winter 2026 Grading: S/CR/NC Credits: 1 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education Tags: DANC Movement Practice & Performance Faculty: Elayna Waxse
A physical exploration at the introductory level of the elements of dance: time, motion, space, shape and energy. Students are challenged physically as they increase their bodily awareness, balance, control, strength and flexibility and get a glimpse of the art of dance. Offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026 Grading: S/CR/NC Credits: 1 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education Tags: DANC Movement Practice & Performance Faculty: Daphne McCoy
This is a course in techniques of spontaneous dancing shared by two or more people through a common point of physical contact. Basic skills such as support, counterbalance, rolling, falling and flying will be taught and developed in an environment of mutual creativity. Offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 Grading: S/CR/NC Credits: 1 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education Tags: THEA Practical DANC Movement Practice & Performance Faculty: Kristin Van Loon
This course provides an introduction to a variety of movement approaches that develop an awareness of the body in space and moving through space. Students will learn approaches designed to strengthen muscles, support joint mobility, find breath support, enhance coordination, and encourage embodied learning. Offered: Fall 2025 Grading: S/CR/NC Credits: 1 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education Tags: DANC Movement Practice & Performance Faculty: Elayna Waxse
This course focuses on development and execution of dance and performance skills as they relate to musical theater dance styles. Students will learn how to use dance as a method of storytelling to gain a better understanding of how dance and choreography create and bring dramatic elements to life. This course will also include some beginning tap steps. Offered: Fall 2025 Grading: S/CR/NC Credits: 1 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education Tags: DANC Movement Practice & Performance Faculty: Daphne McCoy
This introductory course in choreography explores games, structures, systems and sports as sources and locations of movement composition and performance. Readings, viewings and discussion of postmodernist structures and choreographers as well as attendance and analysis of dance performances and sports events will be jumping off point for creative process and will pave the way for small individual compositions and one larger project. In an atmosphere of play, spontaneity and research participants will discover new ways of defining dance, pushing limits and bending the rules. Guest choreographers and coaches will be invited as part of the class. Open to all movers. No previous experience necessary. Offered: Spring 2026 Credits: 6 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice Tags: CL: 100 level DANC Choreography Faculty: Judith Howard
A continuation of Level I with more emphasis on the development of technique and expressive qualities. Offered: Winter 2026, Spring 2026 Grading: S/CR/NC Credits: 1 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education Tags: DANC Movement Practice & Performance Faculty: Daphne McCoy
Intensive rehearsal and performance of a work commissioned from professional guest choreographer. The class will culminate in a performance in the Spring Term, so students taking this course should plan to register for DANC 206 in Spring. Open to all levels. Offered: Winter 2026 Grading: S/CR/NC Credits: 1 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice Tags: DANC Movement Practice & Performance Faculty: Judith Howard
Rehearsal and full concert performance of student dance works created during the year and completed in the spring term. Open to all levels. Offered: Spring 2026 Grading: S/CR/NC Credits: 1 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice DANC 350 with a grade of C- or better. Tags: DANC Movement Practice & Performance Faculty: Judith Howard
This course is intended for students seeking to refine and deepen their awareness of embodied movement approaches. Through these approaches, students will work to develop an alert and articulate body. In both standing and floor work, momentum, dynamic shifts and spatial challenges are introduced. Offered: Winter 2026 Grading: S/CR/NC Credits: 1 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education Tags: DANC Movement Practice & Performance Faculty: Elayna Waxse
This course investigates the structure and function of the body through movement and how it can be applied to the stage work of an actor, dancer and or singer. Included will be a variety of somatic and performance approaches (Alexander Technique, improvisation Viewpoints, stage combat). The emphasis will be to discover effortless movement, body awareness, balance in the body and an integration of self in moving. Offered: Fall 2025 Credits: 3 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education Tags: CL: 200 level THEA Practical DANC Movement Practice & Performance Faculty: Daphne McCoy
This course positions jazz and related social dance styles as forms with African diasporic roots and American branches. Composed of 60% in-class movement investigation and 40% both in-class and out of class reading, viewing, writing, and creating, Jazz Dance: Roots and Grooves will ask students to invest in how the elements of groove, improvisation and interaction unite different approaches to jazz and make it a form that appreciates the past, centers the present and innovates for the future. Some dance experience recommended. Offered: Winter 2026 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education Tags: AFST Arts Practice CL: 200 level THEA Practical AMST Production Consumption of Culture AMST Race Ethnicity Indigeneity DANC History Theory Literature DANC Movement Practice & Performance Faculty: Erinn Liebhard
Dance is a field in which bodies articulate a history of sexuality, nation, gender, and race. In this course, the investigation of the body as a “text” will be anchored by intersectional and feminist perspectives. We will re-center American concert dance history, emphasizing the Africanist base of American Dance performance, contemporary black choreographers, and Native American concert dance. Through reading, writing, discussing, moving, viewing videos and performances the class will “read” the gender, race, and politics of the dancing body in the cultural/historical context of Modern, Post Modern and Contemporary Dance. Not offered in 2025-26 Liberal Arts Requirements: HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 200 level GWSS Elective AFST Literary Artistic Analysis AMST Production Consumption of Culture DANC History Theory Literature
"The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas-for my body does not have the same ideas I do." -Roland Barthes. Through guided movement sessions we will explore the body as a source for ideas. Using "Authentic Movement," experiential anatomy practices and compositional strategies, students will generate several small compositions and one larger gallery project exploring alternative spaces and the influx of various media (movement, text, images, technology, objects, sites, fabric). This choreography "lab" will help answer the question: How do you make a dance? For both beginning and advanced dance students. Offered: Fall 2025 Credits: 6 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice Tags: CL: 200 level DANC Choreography THEA Practical Faculty: Judith Howard
Tap is an energetic form of dance that focuses on rhythm and percussion. Classes will include across the floor exercises that teach dynamics, shading, phrasing, and musicality along with extended rhythmic phrases and improvisation exercises. Tap dance originated in the southern United States as a fusion of West African dance roots and Europeanist influences. In this course students will learn tap skills as well as important aspects of tap dance history. Some previous experience with Tap dance is recommended. Not offered in 2025-26 Grading: S/CR/NC Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education Tags: CL: 200 level
DANCE LAB will provide an adventurous and practical space where students of various levels can explore body-based performance with an emphasis on the solo form. Students will examine the choreographic elements of space, time, energy, action, framing, and environment as they discover personal aesthetics and investigate how to organize physical ideas in both immediate and virtual spaces. A community of deep listening will support creative acts that can effect change – socio-political-personal. Performance solos will be developed through discussion, peer feedback, and regular meetings with the faculty mentor. Work for the class will include your own rehearsals and, outside readings and viewings. The ability to record your work is required and access to a camera is recommended (phones are fine). Not offered in 2025-26 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice Tags: CL: 200 level DANC Choreography
In this class you will be introduced to traditional West African dance movement accompanied by live drumming. A variety of dynamics such as grounding, centeredness, and footwork will be addressed. Each class will cover the cultural background of the rhythm as well as the conversation between drummer and dancer. All levels are welcome to join in this vigorous experience of West African dance forms. Offered: Fall 2025 Grading: S/CR/NC Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education Tags: AFST Arts Practice DANC Movement Practice & Performance Faculty: Whitney McClusky
This is an advanced class for students who have some capabilities and proficiency in ballet technique. Content is sophisticated and demanding in its use of ballet vocabulary and musical phrasing. Offered: Spring 2026 Grading: S/CR/NC Credits: 1 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education Tags: DANC Movement Practice & Performance Faculty: Jennifer Bader
This advanced course will continue to focus on a variety of embodied movement approaches to refine the awareness of the moving body and prepare for the rigors of performance and physical research. The aim will be on finding a personal connection to movement through subtlety, speed and effort. Offered: Spring 2026 Grading: S/CR/NC Credits: 1 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education Tags: DANC Movement Practice & Performance Faculty: Elayna Waxse
