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This course is a continuation of DANC 111 - Contemporary I, that explores the technique and the theories of Contemporary Dance at the 200 level. Emphasis is placed on advanced modern, postmodern, and contemporary dance techniques and the application of movement principles essential to the training to make a professional dancer. Different styles of contemporary dance will be presented with an emphasis on improving anatomical awareness and alignment, developing integrated movement patterns and internal connections, rhythmic awareness and using dance as a form of expression. Students will observe dance on video and performance, read and write, from a scholarly perspective, about Contemporary Dance as well as discuss the genres and styles of individual ideals relating to the overall form.

This course is a continuation of the classical/contemporary ballet technique offered in DANC 112 - Ballet I at the 200 level with continued attention to biomechanical principles of ballet, proper execution, and mastery of the classical/contemporary movement repertoire, and the application of movement principles essential to the training to make a professional dancer. In addition, students will broaden their learning about classical/contemporary ballet issues through assigned readings and through written work.

This course is a continuation of the content of DANC 113 - Jazz I, at the 200 level through movement and academic study. Class work examines what elements of jazz dance situate it outside the paradigms of ballet and modern/contemporary's value systems of form, function, musicality, and technique, and examines how African and Black Diasporic roots of jazz dance make it a distinct form, worthy of study without being qualified from a colonist perspective. Class covers the fundamental elements of the Africanist and Black Diasporic roots and movement aesthetics of multiple jazz dance styles. Coursework will also incorporate the theory and pedagogy of Jazz Dance through readings, written assignments, and in-class and online discussions. All coursework is designed to improve a dance student's jazz technique, movement skills, understanding of musicality, theory, and history through participation and academic study, and the application of movement principles essential to the training to make a professional dancer.

DANC 214 - Tap Dance II is a continuation of DANC 114 - Tap Dance I. Tap Dance II will intensify and expand the technique of basic tap dance with a strong focus on the artistic execution of phrases and the recollection of dance combinations. The student will continue to study the proper implementation of technique and correct use of terminology" The scholarly part of this course will cover contemporary issues in tap dance through assigned readings, research, and written work.

This class students will devote the semester to an in-depth study and practice of improvisation. Students will question the practice, nature and place of compositional improvisation. Students will examine ways to play with and cultivate methods that are both spontaneous and immediate, and carefully crafted and considered methods, whichever method is needed in the moment. Students will be attentive to the form and consider the traditions that make them manifest in our movement language. Students will be asked to engage with possibilities for radical re-organization and re-assessment. The class builds upon solo and ensemble works through engagement in a wide array of practices. Students will be called upon to contribute as a soloist and collaborator to build shapely, coherent, short and long pieces using improvisational elements.

This course engages students with various physical and choreographic styles, professional rehearsal and performance practices, the experience with technical production, and the culture of a professional repertory dance ensemble/company/project. All coursework is designed to improve dance majors' understanding of dance performance as a professional career practice. Class culminates in a series of public performances in the Merrins Dance Theatre in Rockefeller Arts Center. Co-requisites: This course must be taken with one of the following: DANC 111-113, 211-213, 311-313, 341.

This course engages students with various physical and choreographic styles, professional rehearsal and performance practices, the experience with technical production, and the culture of a professional repertory dance ensemble/company/project. All coursework is designed to improve BFA dance majors' understanding of dance performance as a professional career practice. Class culminates in a series of public performances in the Marvel Theatre in Rockefeller Arts Center. Co-requisites: This course must be taken with one of the following: DANC 111-113, 211-213, 311-313, 341.

This class covers the basic anatomy and kinesthetic functions of the skeletal, muscular, and connective tissue systems of the body; scientific terminology of anatomy; and planes of motion as they relate to dance techniques, somatic awareness, and dance performance. All courswork is designed to improve student understanding of the systems of the body as they relate to dance movement and the ability to assess and implement healthy movement mechanics through participation and academic study. Written assignments, quizzes, and exams are required.

In this course, students are introduced to the basic elements of the craft of choreography: space, time, effort/force and motivation. These are concepts that can be applied to any genre of dance when choreographing. Movement invention will be approached through improvisation, movement studies, readings, performance viewings, video viewings and written assignments. An emphasis will be placed upon discovering your own unique expressive movement vocabulary and deepening your powers of observation of self, others and the world around you. Dancers will learn how to investigate movement, probe and manipulate movement materials, and give and receive peer feedback. Concepts will be explored as soloists. In preparing for a final composition showing, dancers will investigate issues that are important and use their findings to create a final work, a solo, either set on themselves or someone else. Dancers will leave this class with different methods of how to generate movement for themselves, and how to describe their movement using language to others.

An independent study that will provide a rigorous academic experience equivalent to that of any other undergraduate course. Independent study courses are ways to explore a subject in an in depth approach specific to the dance field or closely related subject of the student's academic interest. To do an independent study project, it is recommended that the request be made in the form of a written proposal prior to the end of the previous semester of when the intended Independent Study would start. Permission of instructor and department is required