20 courses with the subject DAN, 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.
Class Hours: 3 Ballet provides the foundation for all other dance styles. The class consists of a focus on correct alignment, terminology, and building a strong technical foundation.
Class Hours: 3 This is an introduction to Modern Dance through a beginning technique class. Students will learn and execute the fundamentals of Modern Dance by practicing movement exercises and dance phrases influenced by the styles of Horton, Dunham and Graham.
Exploration of movement for the actor. Builds on the foundations of Jazz dancing taught in Jazz 1. Incorporates speed, greater range of motion, advanced leaps and turns, increased difficulty in choreography.
Class Hours: 3 Study of the fundamentals of Tap dancing used in Broadway and Rhythm style performances. Prepares Students for a range of musical theatre performance.
Study and mastery of advanced tap skills. Builds on foundational techniques covered in Tap 1. Focus on advanced rhythms, increasing speed, and sound clarity.
Class Hours: 3 Students will earn the foundation of hip-hop dancing, utilizing street choreography and other aspects of hip-hop from contemporary dance.
Class Hours: 3 Students learn the basics of dancing in an ensemble. Styles can be ballroom, jazz, theatrical, Salsa, Afro-Caribbean, or modern dance. Offered every Spring term, students will perform live to an audience at the end of the term.
186 This is an intermediate study of Modern Dance technique. Building on
Class Hours: 3 This course is designed with a rotating curriculum to expose students to a variety of dance categories. Run by a guest artist “Dance Topics” will cover an assortment of specialties. Techniques include styles such as Afro-Caribbean, Ballroom, Traditional Jazz and Social Dances, Bollywood, Hip-Hop, Modern and more.
This course focuses on developing students’ dance skills specifically when it comes to understanding, retraining and performing choreography in an ensemble setting. Students experience a rehearsal setting and will focus on learning and perfecting one routine to be performed at the in-house Senior Showcase Gala.
A genre of dance that combines terminology and movement from classical ballet, jazz, and modern. Dancers will work with mixing tempo and textures, focusing on both strength and fluidity. Class consists of a warm up, movement across the floor, improvisation and floor work, all culminating in a different combination each week.
This course is designed to continue the exploration of Ballet Dance at an advanced beginner level, offering students the ability to form a solid foundation in dance. Dance vocabulary will be used throughout the semester in regards to ballet terms, meanings, movement and staging with a heavy focus on French to English translation.
Study of major dance genres and choreography techniques which constitute the art of theatrical dancing for musicals. Focus on choreography – specifically, dancing while using props such as, hats, canes, and other objects found on a musical theatre stage.
Course in advanced training in Jazz Dancing, with increasing difficulty in movement, tempo, rhythm, and complex dance choreography.
Advanced tap training. Students develop complex tap sequences and choreography, creating a repertoire of tap performances.
Study of major dance genres and choreographers seen on the musical theatre stage. The works of Fosse, Robbins, and Blankenbuehler provide the basis for inquiry and exploration.
Capstone course in Jazz Dancing. Students are expected to choreograph several Jazz performance pieces, to be used for auditions and professional presentations.
Study and mastery of advanced tap skills. Builds on foundational techniques covered in Tap III. Focus on advanced rhythms, increasing speed, sound clarity and choreography
Class Hours: 3 This course is designed with a rotating curriculum to expose students to a variety of dance categories. Run by a guest artist “Dance Topics” will cover an assortment of specialties. Techniques include styles such as Afro-Caribbean, Ballroom, Traditional Jazz and Social Dances, Bollywood, Hip-Hop, Modern and more.
Source: Five Towns College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
