23 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 1200Introduction to Movement Practices1
Effective Date 10/01/2020 This course is designed as an introduction to movement practices for students of all backgrounds and skill levels. Students will work on dynamic alignment, as well as spatial, sensory, and bodily awareness. Through movement prompts, improvisation, and learned combinations students will be challenged to expand movement vocabulary while also increasing range of motion, strength, flexibility, and expressivity. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken DANC 1559 topic #1 Dance Fundamentals
Effective Date 08/01/2022 This course is an introduction to dance in the context of performance on stage, on screen, and in public space. Through viewings, discussions, and practical dance experiences, students will deepen their understanding of how dances are created and how dance shapes and is shaped by the world around it. Students will engage with a wide range of styles, historical periods, and creative approaches to consider how dance matters.
Effective Date 08/01/2022 In this studio course, students will learn Ballet terminology, movement concepts, and dynamic alignment through an anatomical approach to Ballet technique. Students will work at barre and center while increasing strength, flexibility and body awareness.
Effective Date 08/01/2022 In this studio course, students will explore various styles of western modern/contemporary concert dance as technical, expressive practices. Through movement combinations, improvisation, and mini-studies, students will work to deepen body awareness through modern and contemporary movement practices. Working towards efficiency and dynamic alignment, students will increase strength, flexibility, and become more articulate, expressive dancers.
Effective Date 03/03/2016 This studio course explores various styles of jazz dance. Combinations will focus on isolation, coordination, juxtaposition and musicality. Styles include but are not limited to contemporary, Broadway/musical theatre and lyrical.
Effective Date 08/01/2025 This open-level studio course allows students to explore dance improvisation as a practice of attention, care, and relation. Through improvisational methods and structures, students will develop their skills as improvisers and begin to appreciate improvisation’s role in composition (choreography), performance, and daily life.
Effective Date 08/01/2022 This course provides students with firsthand experience in the creative practice of choreography and performance while providing exposure to basic production skills. In addition to gaining insight into choreography and performance as modes of critical inquiry, students will also be involved in various aspects of the production and will gain an appreciation of the skills that are required to produce a dance concert.
Effective Date 08/01/2022 Exploration of Ballet technique for intermediate to advanced students. Students will deepen their knowledge through continued study of terminology, movement concepts, and dynamic alignment while expanding upon their ability to make qualitative choices and enhancing their artistry.
Effective Date 08/01/2022 Exploration of western modern/contemporary concert dance practices for intermediate to advanced students. Students will deepen their knowledge of movement concepts, dynamic alignment, and body awareness through combinations, improvisation, partnering, and creative studies. Students will continue to increase their strength, flexibility, and body awareness as they expand upon their ability to make qualitative choices and enhance their artistry.
Effective Date 03/04/2016 This studio course explores various styles of jazz dance for intermediate to advanced students. Students will continue to deepen their appreciation of jazz dance forms as they increase movement articulation and specificity. Combinations will focus on isolation, coordination, juxtaposition and musicality while also challenging the students to enhance their expressivity and qualitative choices.
Effective Date 08/01/2022 Explores dance making through the investigation of various tools and approaches to movement generation and composition from western choreographic practices. Students will develop their skills as dance makers through movement explorations, readings, discussions, and viewings. Students will create multiple compositional studies to hone their abilities to make dances. Feedback sessions provide opportunities for critical reflection and discussion.
Effective Date 08/01/2014 This course aims to deepen students’ understanding of dance as a field of artistic and intellectual study. Students will be challenged to examine human movement as a historically situated cultural expression and to explore the relation between dance and various socio-cultural developments. The course will highlight the connection of dance and critical theory, focusing on notions of identity, subjectivity and embodiment.
Effective Date 04/21/2022 In this practice-based course, students will reexamine relations to their environment and generate strategies for a new environmental ethics that calls a human-centered world into question. Through reading, conversing, and moving, students consider how somatic and artistic practices might shift ecological understandings. Students will ask questions of and through modes of perception and experiment with an expanding empathy to enact new relations. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken DANC 3559 topic #3 Movement & Environment(s)
Effective Date 07/12/2023 In-depth investigation of a specific topic in the field of dance at the 3000 level. Topics and content will vary depending upon the instructor’s areas of expertise. The course may be repeated for credit in different content areas. Possible topics include: advanced Movement Practices, Somatic Studies, Critical Studies, Creative Research and Scholarship (Choreography, Screendance, Dance and Music or Dance and Media/Technology collaborations), etc.
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may be repeated for credit in different content areas.
Effective Date 03/04/2016 This course serves as an introduction to the principles and skills involved in the practice of Contact Improvisation. Students will explore and learn improvisational strategies for moving individually, in duets, and groups. With attention focused on responsiveness in the moment, students learn to think quickly and creatively and are encouraged to investigate the territory between familiarity and risk.
Effective Date 08/01/2020 This course is designed for students to have the opportunity to learn repertory, experience multiple methods of choreography and gain deeper insight into the practice of dance performance through working with faculty and professional guest artists via the choreographic process.
Effective Date 08/01/2022 Investigates the relationship between dancing bodies, cinematography, and video editing. Exploring innovative ways to film movement, we examine the relationship between the moving body and camera. Students gain exposure to various methodologies and practices that can be directly applied to individual projects. We discuss parallels between choreography, cinematography, and video editing, and how these integrate to form the art of Screendance.
Effective Date 08/01/2022 Exploration of western modern/contemporary concert dance practices for advanced students. Students will work towards mastery as they continue to deepen their knowledge of movement concepts and body awareness. Through advanced combinations, partnering, improvisation, and studies, students will work to gain greater specificity and clarity as they expand upon their artistry and ability to make qualitative choices through the medium of dance.
Effective Date 01/01/2022 Investigates somatic practices and methodologies as embodied research. Through movement practice, readings, and discussions we explore multiple concepts and tools that can deepen embodied practices. This course offers an opportunity to foster awareness, expand individual movement choices, and increase clarity of expression. In so doing, we may broaden our capacity to listen, perceive, and relate to ourselves, one another, and the world around us.
Effective Date 08/01/2022 Allows upper level students to pursue advanced creative and/or scholarly research in dance as an independent project. Students can identify their area of focus for in depth investigations including, but not limited to: Choregraphy, Screendance, Performance, Performance Studies, Dance Pedagogy, etc.
