43 courses with the subject DPM, 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.
DPM 1010Modern Dance Technique I1.5
The fall semester of a year-long technique course that provides intermediate-level training for students in Level I modern technique. Students improve and reinforce technical proficiency, artistic growth, and performance skills. They also build and retain a movement range and vocabulary that demonstrates an increase in strength, agility, flexibility, and endurance through classical and contemporary modern dance techniques. Placement audition required; placement by faculty.
The spring semester of a year-long technique course that provides intermediate-level training for students in Level I modern technique. Students improve and reinforce technical proficiency, artistic growth, and performance skills. They also build and retain a movement range and vocabulary that demonstrates an increase in strength, agility, flexibility, and endurance through classical and contemporary modern dance techniques. Placement audition required; placement by faculty. PREREQ: DPM1010
For beginners and those with little dance experience, or those who have not had modern training for many years. Includes warm-up exercises, alignment focus, and movement patterns and combinations.
Learn the diverse dance & drum culture of West Africa, through dancing, drumming, singing, presentations and video clips. Cultural learning will focus on the meaning and purpose of the dances; call and response singing; the role of the drum; and social expressions of communal life.
Discover New Way Vogue, a core conditioning warm-up and stretch series will prep the body to Vogue. Arms control will be a main element with a focus on precision work to create lines, shapes, and face-framing movements with the arms. Students will emulate the poses of models from the eponymous fashion magazine while incorporating duck walks and dips.
Introduces dancers to the fundamentals of contact improvisation technique and explores contact improvisation as a dance and performance practice in duet, group, and solo form. Credits: .5 PREREQ: DPC1020
Introduces dancers to the fundamentals of contact improvisation technique and explores contact improvisation as a dance and performance practice in duet, group, and solo form. Credits: .5
Students learn the principles of yoga, including meditation, pranayama (breathing techniques), and asana (postures). The focus is on awareness of breath and the body as a means toward self-awareness, both on and off the mat. In calming tensions of the body and busyness of the mind, overall well-being is enhanced. In doing so, students become more aware of how they experience life. Credits: .5
DPM 1552Somatic Practice for Dancers: Fluid Form-A Moving Inquiry Course
Students delve into courting, accessing, and developing creativity, imagination, and innovation through whole-body fluidity. Several creative processes are explored, such as choreography, voice, and movement into text and movement; poetry in motion; writing; acting; and becoming aware of presence and how to embody it in a wide range of performance and life circumstances. Credits: .5
DPM 1553Somatic Practice for Dancers: Alexander Technique
Students learn the principles of the Alexander Technique, a psycho-physical method for re-educating the body. By identifying habitual ways of moving and making a different choice, students can improve the use of their bodies. The focus is on discussion and exploration of major body joints, movement explorations based on everyday actions, and movement explorations from the floor to standing and moving in space. Credits: .5
Students learn the basic techniques of Swedish massage and develop their own personal sequence (style) of stroke applications, to be applied in a typical one-hour massage session. The focus is on draping techniques, basic anatomy, pathology, and the “dos and don’ts” of dealing with injuries. Credits: .5
DPM 1555Somatic Practice for Dancers: Pilates - Mat I
Students learn the methodology of Joseph Pilates. The six major principles of the Pilates method of body conditioning, the five elements of the mind, the powerhouse, and core stabilization are explained and discussed. Applying these concepts, students perform the basic Pilates mat exercises. Credits: .5
DPM 1556Somatic Practice for Dancers: Pilates-Mat II
Students learn the methodology of Joseph Pilates. The six major principles of the Pilates method of body conditioning, the five elements of the mind, the powerhouse, and core stabilization are explained and discussed. Applying these concepts, students perform the basic Pilates mat exercises. Credits: .5 PREREQ: DPM1555 Or DPC1300
DPM 1557Somatic Practice for Dancers: Pilates-Equipment I
An introduction to the methodology of Joseph Pilates via his originally designed Pilates equipment, which is spring-based resistance. The focus is on the Reformer; the Cadillac/Wall Units, the Wunda Chair, Electric Chair, and Ladder Barrel, plus additional equipment such as the Small Barrel and Spine Corrector are secondary. Students participate in servicing the Pilates equipment. Credits: .5 PREREQ: DPM1555 Or DPC1300
DPM 1558Somatic Practice for Dancers: Pilates-Equipment II
An introduction to the methodology of Joseph Pilates via his originally designed Pilates equipment, which is spring-based resistance. The focus is on the Reformer; the Cadillac/Wall Units, the Wunda Chair, Electric Chair, and Ladder Barrel, plus additional equipment such as the Small Barrel and Spine Corrector are secondary. Students participate in servicing the Pilates equipment. Credits: .5 PREREQ: DPM1555
DPM 1559Somatic Practice for Dancers: Mind/Body Explorations
Students learn the principles of Somatic Practice - a self-treatment that encourages awareness of the body and its ability to restore balance and to repair itself. Students learn to reduce the effects of accumulated tension and stress caused by daily living and to listen deeply to the body in order to heal the mind/body split. Credits: .5
DPM 1560Somatic Practice for Dancers: Floorwork Alignment
This course explores Floor Alignment, a technique utilizing the floor to improve body alignment. It includes gentle exercises to strengthen joints, increase vitality, and help rehabilitate injuries without the pressure of gravity. The course focuses on flexibility and strength, which are both important elements to maintain as a professional dancer. It has a positive impact on postural issues, rebuilds strength, and enables natural mobility. Credits: .5
DPM 1561Somatic Practice for Dancers: Core Connections
This course explores the deep awareness and connection of the body’s core to support unification of the upper and lower body. Building this core connection enables access to the strength we do have and enable us to more efficiently built further strength and flexibility. Students will explore a variety of circular cyclical movement pattern intending to open energy pathways while simultaneously strengthen and lengthen the body. Exercises will be performed on the floor, seated on a stool as we Credits: .5 PREREQ: DPM1555
An exploration of the diverse dance and drum culture of Africa and the diaspora through dancing, drumming, singing, presentations, and video clips. Cultural learning focuses on the meaning and purpose of the dances and the call-and-response singing, the role of the drum, and social expressions of communal life. Credits: .5
Gaga is a movement language developed by Ohad Naharin, artistic director of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company. It provides a framework for discovering and strengthening the body and adding flexibility, stamina, and agility while lightening the senses and imagination. Gaga raises awareness of physical weaknesses, awakens numb areas, exposes physical fixations, and offers ways for their elimination. Classes are provided by Gaga USA. Credits: .5
An introduction to the cultural history and contemporary practice of Irish dance. Students learn traditional solo and ensemble Irish dance forms and investigate the stylistic and historical connections between Irish dance and more mainstream forms of ballet and tap dance. Special focus is on choreographic experimentation within traditional Irish dance forms and on learning the repertory of contemporary Irish dance choreographers. Credits: .5
A year-long technique course that provides advanced-level training for students in Level II modern technique. Students improve and reinforce technical proficiency, artistic growth, and performance skills. They also build and retain a movement range and vocabulary that demonstrates an increase in strength, agility, flexibility, and endurance through classical and contemporary modern dance techniques. Placement audition required; placement by faculty.. PREREQ: DPM1020
A year-long technique course that provides advanced-level training for students in Level II modern technique. Students improve and reinforce technical proficiency, artistic growth, and performance skills. They also build and retain a movement range and vocabulary that demonstrates an increase in strength, agility, flexibility, and endurance through classical and contemporary modern dance techniques. Placement audition required; placement by faculty. PREREQ: DPM2010
A year-long technique course that provides intermediate/professional-level training for students in Level III modern technique. Students improve and reinforce technical proficiency, artistic growth, and performance skills. They also build and retain a movement range and vocabulary that demonstrates an increase in strength, agility, flexibility, and endurance through classical and contemporary modern dance techniques. Placement audition required; placement by faculty. PREREQ: DPM2020
A year-long technique course that provides intermediate/professional-level training for students in Level III modern technique. Students improve and reinforce technical proficiency, artistic growth, and performance skills. They also build and retain a movement range and vocabulary that demonstrates an increase in strength, agility, flexibility, and endurance through classical and contemporary modern dance techniques. Placement audition required; placement by faculty. PREREQ: DPM3010
Students work under the direction of faculty and/or guest choreographers on repertory material designed for this course. Content includes artistic interpretation, style, musicality, and coaching relevant to the movement presented weekly and developed throughout the semester. Credits: .5
Students participate in the process of rehearsing a ballet work to be performed at the Performing Arts Center, on tour, or in the Dance Theatre Lab. In a practical application of technique, students are required to analyze movement vocabulary and adapt general principles to specific movement challenges. They also engage in various professional models of creating, rehearsing, and performing: learning material taught by the choreographer, altering or inflecting material as directed, and respon
Students work under the direction of faculty and/or guest choreographers on repertory material designed for this course. Content includes artistic interpretation, style, musicality, and coaching relevant to the movement presented weekly and developed throughout the semester. Credits: .5
A year-long technique class that provides advanced/professional level Modern training for students in the Conservatory of Dance’s Ballet Concentration. Techniques covered may include: Cunningham, Graham, Limon, and Contemporary. Students improve and reinforce technical proficiency, artistic growth, and performance skills. They also build and retain a movement range and vocabulary that demonstrates an increase in strength, agility, flexibility, and endurance through classical and contemporary
DPM 3550Pilates Mat Instructor Training Course - III1
Students continue to learn the methodology of Joseph Pilates and master the physical and mental principles and philosophy of the Traditional Pilates Mat Program. Applying these concepts, students perform the advanced Pilates mat exercises. PREREQ: DPM1555 And DPM1556
Students continue to learn the methodology of Joseph Pilates and master the physical and mental principles and philosophy of the Traditional Pilates Mat Program. Students learn to physically perform the Traditional Pilates Mat exercises and to instruct others on how to perform them with clear and detailed step-by-step directions. PREREQ: DPM3550
A modern dance technique class for junior and senior dance majors that explores the movement ranges of modern partnering. Trust and the physical expertise required to execute modern partnering are built through choreographed combinations that are mastered weekly in class.
A modern dance technique class for junior and senior dance majors that explores the movement ranges of modern partnering. Trust and the physical expertise required to execute modern partnering are built through choreographed combinations that are mastered weekly in class.
An exploration of the diverse dance and drum culture of Africa and the diaspora through dancing, drumming, singing, presentations, and video clips. Cultural learning focuses on the meaning and purpose of the dances and the call-and-response singing, the role of the drum, and social expressions of communal life. Credits: .5
Gaga is a movement language developed by Ohad Naharin, artistic director of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company. It provides a framework for discovering and strengthening the body and adding flexibility, stamina, and agility while lightening the senses and imagination. Gaga raises awareness of physical weaknesses, awakens numb areas, exposes physical fixations, and offers ways for their elimination. Classes are provided by Gaga USA. Credits: .5
Explores the various uses of text and movement in choreography and performance. Students experiment with the use of movement and pre-existing text, including poetry, prose, and theatrical dialogue. The focus is on the creation of original text and movement. The contemporary work of such choreographers as Bill T. Jones, David Gordon, William Forsythe, and Claire Porter is also investigated. Credits: .5
A year-long technique class that provides advanced/professional level Modern training for students in the Conservatory of Dance’s Ballet Concentration. Techniques covered may include: Cunningham, Graham, Limon, and Contemporary. Students improve and reinforce technical proficiency, artistic growth, and performance skills. They also build and retain a movement range and vocabulary that demonstrates an increase in strength, agility, flexibility, and endurance through classical and contemporary
A year-long technique course. Placement audition required; placement by faculty. Two semesters of Modern Dance Technique IV are required for BFA dance performance students. PREREQ: DPM3020
A year-long technique course. Placement audition required; placement by faculty. Two semesters of Modern Dance Technique IV are required for BFA dance performance students. PREREQ: DPM4010
