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Dance Minor

Theatre Arts & Dance Dept
College of Liberal Arts
  • Program Type: Undergraduate minor related to major
  • Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2024
  • Required credits in this minor: 18 to 20
The Dance Minor invites students to investigate movement as a simultaneously physical, creative, and intellectual study of dance in global contexts. The minor allows students to support their other academic studies by integrating physical learning, creativity, and research into their educational career. After students take foundational requirements, they can design their own pathway through the Dance Program's four interconnected pillars: Technique/Practice, Dance-Making/Composition, Dance Studies/Theory and History, and Performance and Design. Pre-designed pathways are also available options for students. Course offerings include dance making/choreography, Theorizing Dancing Bodies, Dance History, Music for Dance, performance & production, and technique training in Hip Hop/Urban Street Styles, American Jazz, African Diasporic Movement, Global Contemporary Dance, Tap, Ballet, among many others. This minor integrates the Dance Program's values of movement as meaning-making, thoughtful creativity, and social justice practice. PROGRAM ADVISING: Because the Dance Program curriculum has many sequential courses, auditions and placement requirements, prospective Dance Minors should meet with the Dance Program Advisor to develop a course plan that supports their learning goals and efficient progress towards graduation. Whether a student has years of dance experience or is completely new to formal dance training, the Dance Program has Dance courses designed to meet students at whatever level of dance exposure, background or engagement they are at and challenge them from that point in their academic career. A student may earn a B.A. or B.F.A. in Dance, or a Minor in Dance, but not both.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Minor Requirements
Foundation Course(s)
Take 1 course from the following, totaling 3 credits:
DNCE 1401 - Introduction to Dance [AH] (3.0 cr)
or DNCE 1626 - Music for Dance [AH] (3.0 cr)
Technique Course(s)
Take 1-2 courses from the following, totaling 2 credits:
DNCE 1001 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 1 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1010 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 3 (1.0-2.0 cr)
or DNCE 1020 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 4 (1.0-2.0 cr)
or DNCE 1101 - Ballet Technique 1 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1102 - Ballet Technique 2 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1110 - Ballet Technique 3 (2.0 cr)
or DNCE 1120 - Ballet Technique 4 (2.0 cr)
or DNCE 1201 - Jazz Technique 1 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1202 - Jazz Technique 2 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1210 - Jazz Technique 3 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1220 - Jazz Technique 4 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1301 - Tap Technique 1 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1302 - Tap Technique 2 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1343 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 1: Introduction (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1344 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 2: Advanced Foundation and Histories (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1349 - Contact Improvisation (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1351 - African Diasporic Movement 1 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1353 - African Diasporic Movement 3 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1354 - African Diasporic Movement 4 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 3301 - Tap Technique 3 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 3302 - Tap Technique 4 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 3341 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 3: Emerging Scholar (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 3342 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 4: Scholar (1.0 cr)
Required Courses
Dance Studies
Take 1 course totaling 3 credits:
Take exactly 1 course(s) totaling exactly 3 credit(s) from the following:
· DNCE 3401W - Dance History 1 [GP, WI] (3.0 cr)
· DNCE 3411 - Dance and Popular Culture: Choreographing Race, Class, and Gender [DSJ] (3.0 cr)
· DNCE 5493 - Choreographing Social Justice: Staging "Equitable" Choreographies (3.0 cr)
Dance Composition
Take exactly 1 course(s) totaling exactly 3 credit(s) from the following:
· DNCE 3601 - Dance Composition 1 (3.0 cr)
Electives
Take 3 or more courses, totaling at least 7 to 9 credits; at least 3 credits at the 3xxx-5xxx level:
DNCE 1001 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 1 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1010 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 3 (1.0-2.0 cr)
or DNCE 1020 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 4 (1.0-2.0 cr)
or DNCE 1040 - Modern Dance Partnering Technique (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1101 - Ballet Technique 1 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1102 - Ballet Technique 2 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1110 - Ballet Technique 3 (2.0 cr)
or DNCE 1120 - Ballet Technique 4 (2.0 cr)
or DNCE 1201 - Jazz Technique 1 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1202 - Jazz Technique 2 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1210 - Jazz Technique 3 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1301 - Tap Technique 1 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1302 - Tap Technique 2 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1327 - Argentine Tango (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1331 - Yoga (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1332 - Yoga for Dancers (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1343 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 1: Introduction (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1344 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 2: Advanced Foundation and Histories (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1345 - Alexander Technique for Movement Artists (2.0 cr)
or DNCE 1349 - Contact Improvisation (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1351 - African Diasporic Movement 1 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1353 - African Diasporic Movement 3 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1354 - African Diasporic Movement 4 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 1701 - Freshman/Sophomore Repertory (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 3010 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 5 (2.0 cr)
or DNCE 3020 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 6 (2.0 cr)
or DNCE 3110 - Ballet Technique 5 (2.0 cr)
or DNCE 3120 - Ballet Technique 6 (2.0 cr)
or DNCE 3301 - Tap Technique 3 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 3302 - Tap Technique 4 (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 3334 - Introduction to Dance/Movement Therapy (2.0 cr)
or DNCE 3341 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 3: Emerging Scholar (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 3402W - Dance History 2 [WI] (3.0 cr)
or DNCE 3411 - Dance and Popular Culture: Choreographing Race, Class, and Gender [DSJ] (3.0 cr)
or DNCE 3433 - Articulate Body (3.0 cr)
or DNCE 3602 - Dance Composition 2 (3.0 cr)
or DNCE 3621 - Dance Production I (2.0 cr)
or DNCE 3622 - Dance Production II (2.0 cr)
or DNCE 3700 - Performance (1.0 cr)
or DNCE 4443 - Theorizing Dancing Bodies (3.0 cr)
or DNCE 4601 - Dance Composition 3 (3.0 cr)
or DNCE 5010 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 7 (2.0 cr)
or DNCE 5020 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 8 (2.0 cr)
or DNCE 5443 - Theorizing Dancing Bodies (3.0 cr)
or DNCE 5493 - Choreographing Social Justice: Staging "Equitable" Choreographies (3.0 cr)
or DNCE 5700 - Performance (1.0-2.0 cr)
or DNCE 5858 - Dance Pedagogy (3.0-4.0 cr)
 
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DNCE 1401 - Introduction to Dance (AH)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Chic 1401/Dnce1401
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
What is dance? How does movement create meaning? Dance as action and framework for analysis of moving bodies. Movement politics of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation through reading, writing, moving, and watching dance performances. Discussion. Dance experience not required.
DNCE 1626 - Music for Dance (AH)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Cultural gravity of the Western perspective. Ways global regions express natural laws of acoustics through music while considering historical, political, and ethical issues around the relationship between music and dance. Workshops, practice, and exercises. prereq: dept consent
DNCE 1001 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 1
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
First course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Introductory modern dance technique training. Dance form varies according to instructor.
DNCE 1010 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 3
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Third course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Beginning modern dance technique training. Dance form varies by instructor. prereq: dept consent, audition
DNCE 1020 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 4
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Fourth course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Beginning modern dance technique training. Dance form varies by instructor. prereq: 1010, dept consent, audition
DNCE 1101 - Ballet Technique 1
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Principles, basic technique, and vocabulary of ballet; barre, center, and allegro.
DNCE 1102 - Ballet Technique 2
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Second of two-semester sequence of fundamental Classical Ballet Technique. Principles of Classical Ballet technique. Each principle introduced separately/in progression. Barre/center work with emphasis on simplicity, repetition, creativity. prereq: 1101, or audition, or instr consent
DNCE 1110 - Ballet Technique 3
Credits: 2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
First of two-semester sequence of beginning ballet technique. Level 3 in eight-level sequence of ballet technique. Practical application of ballet principles. Barre work needed for center work. Center work will consist of adagio, basic turns, petit, grand allegro. prereq: dept consent, audition
DNCE 1120 - Ballet Technique 4
Credits: 2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Second of two-semester sequence in beginning ballet. Practical application of ballet principles. Barre/center work. Ever-changing combinations/steps learned in previous level. prereq: 1110, dept consent, audition
DNCE 1201 - Jazz Technique 1
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
First of six-semester sequence of jazz dance. Fundamental jazz vocabulary/movement. Basic understanding of proper body placement, clear articulation, basic mechanics of jazz movement, rhythmic footwork. Improvisation will be introduced. Overview of history of jazz music/dance styles.
DNCE 1202 - Jazz Technique 2
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Second of six-semester sequence in jazz dance. Fundamental jazz vocabulary/movement. Clear articulation of movement, use of space, weight, dynamics, focus, style, musicality. Improvisation. Overview of history of jazz music/dance styles. prereq: 1201 or audition or instr consent
DNCE 1210 - Jazz Technique 3
Credits: 1.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Third of six-semester sequence of jazz dance. Vocabulary. Technical skills using variety of jazz dance styles while increasing flexibility, groundedness, strength. Increase understanding of musicality, dynamics, style, improvisation. prereq: dept consent, audition
DNCE 1220 - Jazz Technique 4
Credits: 1.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Fourth of six-semester sequence of jazz dance. Expand vocabulary/develop skills, technique, style. Increase flexibility, strength. Use of space, clear articulation of movement, rhythmic footwork, grounding movement, dynamics, musicality. prereq: 1210, dept consent, audition
DNCE 1301 - Tap Technique 1
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Learning fundamental terms, basic rhythm structures, stock steps, and standard time steps.
DNCE 1302 - Tap Technique 2
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Fundamental terms, basic rhythms and syncopation, stock steps, and standard time steps; clarity of sound and rhythm. prereq: 1301 or instr consent
DNCE 1343 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 1: Introduction
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
We study the origins of Hip Hop dance and how it has evolved to the current incarnations of the form. There is also a focus on Hip Hop culture as a whole and we have many discussions about issues of identity, relation to power, appropriation, and youth culture. The specific forms of movement in this course are toprocking, rocking, breakdancing (breaking), New Jack Swing, and house dance. Some questions to focus on: What is Hip Hop dance? Where does it originate? Who created Hip Hop artistic expressions? What voices/bodies are heard/seen or not heard/not seen in the films assigned?
DNCE 1344 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 2: Advanced Foundation and Histories
Credits: 1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
In this second course in the dance program's 4-semester Urban and Street Dance sequence, students further investigate the technical foundations and histories of rocking, breaking, funk styles, krump, house, and specific techniques that mix these forms together. These further explorations focus on more advanced techniques, aesthetic approaches, and complex issues within these forms. Students are assigned readings and writing assignments that critically examine each issue. Students will participate in an informal showing at the end of the semester. Prerequisite: completion of DNCE 1343 or audition.
DNCE 1349 - Contact Improvisation
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Safe, clear introduction to principles of contact improvisation. Rolling point of contact, supporting/being supported, falling/recovering, connecting with center as source/support for movement. Classes include warm-up.
DNCE 1351 - African Diasporic Movement 1
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies: Dnce 1313/Dnce 1351
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
First of six-course sequence. Introduction to traditional West African dance technique as a foundational base to begin learning technique, body placement, movement, space, time, energy, isolations, patterns, etiquette, community building, group work and presentation.
DNCE 1353 - African Diasporic Movement 3
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Third of six-course sequence. Afro-Brazilian dance, including jumps, turns, floor work, and rhythmicity to develop flexibility, strength, and vocabulary in polycentric movement, moving toward body-sound harmony, illuminating dynamics of coordination, relaxation, breathing, undulation.
DNCE 1354 - African Diasporic Movement 4
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Fourth of six-course sequence. Builds on level 3 by exploring movement from mythology of Afro-Brazilian belief systems orix� and Candombl�. How corporal knowledge and technique fluency through the course sequence support different dance techniques. prereq: 1353 or audition or instr consent
DNCE 3301 - Tap Technique 3
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Tap techniques and creative development through improvisational studies. prereq: 1302 or instr consent
DNCE 3302 - Tap Technique 4
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Tap techniques and rhythm structures. prereq: 3301 or instr consent
DNCE 3341 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 3: Emerging Scholar
Credits: 1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
This is the third course in the dance program's 4-semester Urban and Street Dance sequence. It focuses on intermediate/advanced techniques in rocking, breaking, funk styles, krump, house, and specific techniques that mix these forms together. These further explorations focus on more advanced techniques, aesthetics, and complex issues within forms practiced by instructors. Students are assigned readings, videos, and writing assignments to think critically about each issue. There is an informal showing at the end of the semester. prereq: Completion of DNCE 2341 or audition.
DNCE 3342 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 4: Scholar
Credits: 1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
This is the final course in the Dance Program's 4-semester Urban and Street Styles sequence. It focuses on advanced techniques in rocking, breaking, funk styles, krump, house, and specific techniques that mix these forms together. These further explorations focus on advanced techniques, aesthetics, and complex issues within forms practiced by instructors. Students are assigned readings, videos, and writing assignments to think critically about each issue. There is an informal showing at the end of the semester. Prerequisite: Completion of DNCE 3341 or audition
DNCE 3401W - Dance History 1 (GP, WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Historiography of dance, 20th century through present. Reconstruction/incorporation of dance practice in context of globalization. Artistic choices as influenced by complex history of performing arts and terrain of body/politics.
DNCE 3411 - Dance and Popular Culture: Choreographing Race, Class, and Gender (DSJ)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
How race, class, and gender become aestheticized and are put into motion as popular culture. Choreographic analysis of moving bodies. How "popular" affects understanding of culture. Exoticism, binary structures of stereotypes, identity, hegemony.
DNCE 5493 - Choreographing Social Justice: Staging "Equitable" Choreographies
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Possibilities and implications of artistic work. Metaphoric bodily practices and intersections of performance and social justice practices. Theories and histories of intersections within communities of color across global North and South. Group project. prereq: 4443 recommended
DNCE 3601 - Dance Composition 1
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Movement, vocabulary in relation to theme, space, time, energy, and body parts; solo, duet, and trio forms. prereq: 1020, 1601, concurrent regis in a modern dance technique course, dept consent
DNCE 1001 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 1
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
First course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Introductory modern dance technique training. Dance form varies according to instructor.
DNCE 1010 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 3
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Third course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Beginning modern dance technique training. Dance form varies by instructor. prereq: dept consent, audition
DNCE 1020 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 4
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Fourth course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Beginning modern dance technique training. Dance form varies by instructor. prereq: 1010, dept consent, audition
DNCE 1040 - Modern Dance Partnering Technique
Credits: 1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Technical demands, approaches, and skills needed for partnering in modern dance. prereq: Dance major or instr consent
DNCE 1101 - Ballet Technique 1
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Principles, basic technique, and vocabulary of ballet; barre, center, and allegro.
DNCE 1102 - Ballet Technique 2
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Second of two-semester sequence of fundamental Classical Ballet Technique. Principles of Classical Ballet technique. Each principle introduced separately/in progression. Barre/center work with emphasis on simplicity, repetition, creativity. prereq: 1101, or audition, or instr consent
DNCE 1110 - Ballet Technique 3
Credits: 2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
First of two-semester sequence of beginning ballet technique. Level 3 in eight-level sequence of ballet technique. Practical application of ballet principles. Barre work needed for center work. Center work will consist of adagio, basic turns, petit, grand allegro. prereq: dept consent, audition
DNCE 1120 - Ballet Technique 4
Credits: 2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Second of two-semester sequence in beginning ballet. Practical application of ballet principles. Barre/center work. Ever-changing combinations/steps learned in previous level. prereq: 1110, dept consent, audition
DNCE 1201 - Jazz Technique 1
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
First of six-semester sequence of jazz dance. Fundamental jazz vocabulary/movement. Basic understanding of proper body placement, clear articulation, basic mechanics of jazz movement, rhythmic footwork. Improvisation will be introduced. Overview of history of jazz music/dance styles.
DNCE 1202 - Jazz Technique 2
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Second of six-semester sequence in jazz dance. Fundamental jazz vocabulary/movement. Clear articulation of movement, use of space, weight, dynamics, focus, style, musicality. Improvisation. Overview of history of jazz music/dance styles. prereq: 1201 or audition or instr consent
DNCE 1210 - Jazz Technique 3
Credits: 1.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Third of six-semester sequence of jazz dance. Vocabulary. Technical skills using variety of jazz dance styles while increasing flexibility, groundedness, strength. Increase understanding of musicality, dynamics, style, improvisation. prereq: dept consent, audition
DNCE 1301 - Tap Technique 1
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Learning fundamental terms, basic rhythm structures, stock steps, and standard time steps.
DNCE 1302 - Tap Technique 2
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Fundamental terms, basic rhythms and syncopation, stock steps, and standard time steps; clarity of sound and rhythm. prereq: 1301 or instr consent
DNCE 1327 - Argentine Tango
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Basic rhythms emphasizing posture, axis, walking, lead/follow techniques, footwork patterns. Students listen to music to identify rhythm, communicate.
DNCE 1331 - Yoga
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Theory/practice of Yoga. Standing postures, forward bends, twists, balancing, seated postures, inversions, back bends, guided relaxation/meditation. Proper alignment, weight placement, body awareness, relaxation, breathing techniques. Midterm paper, movement demonstration final.
DNCE 1332 - Yoga for Dancers
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Physical experience and related aesthetic topics. Historical aspects. Philosophical ideas of yoga. Improving body mechanics through alignment, flexibility, and strength. Developing mental focus/control. Reinforcing positive body language.
DNCE 1343 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 1: Introduction
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
We study the origins of Hip Hop dance and how it has evolved to the current incarnations of the form. There is also a focus on Hip Hop culture as a whole and we have many discussions about issues of identity, relation to power, appropriation, and youth culture. The specific forms of movement in this course are toprocking, rocking, breakdancing (breaking), New Jack Swing, and house dance. Some questions to focus on: What is Hip Hop dance? Where does it originate? Who created Hip Hop artistic expressions? What voices/bodies are heard/seen or not heard/not seen in the films assigned?
DNCE 1344 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 2: Advanced Foundation and Histories
Credits: 1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
In this second course in the dance program's 4-semester Urban and Street Dance sequence, students further investigate the technical foundations and histories of rocking, breaking, funk styles, krump, house, and specific techniques that mix these forms together. These further explorations focus on more advanced techniques, aesthetic approaches, and complex issues within these forms. Students are assigned readings and writing assignments that critically examine each issue. Students will participate in an informal showing at the end of the semester. Prerequisite: completion of DNCE 1343 or audition.
DNCE 1345 - Alexander Technique for Movement Artists
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Increased kinesthetic awareness of habitual movement patterns in order to improve dance/movement technique and prevent related injuries.
DNCE 1349 - Contact Improvisation
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Safe, clear introduction to principles of contact improvisation. Rolling point of contact, supporting/being supported, falling/recovering, connecting with center as source/support for movement. Classes include warm-up.
DNCE 1351 - African Diasporic Movement 1
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies: Dnce 1313/Dnce 1351
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
First of six-course sequence. Introduction to traditional West African dance technique as a foundational base to begin learning technique, body placement, movement, space, time, energy, isolations, patterns, etiquette, community building, group work and presentation.
DNCE 1353 - African Diasporic Movement 3
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Third of six-course sequence. Afro-Brazilian dance, including jumps, turns, floor work, and rhythmicity to develop flexibility, strength, and vocabulary in polycentric movement, moving toward body-sound harmony, illuminating dynamics of coordination, relaxation, breathing, undulation.
DNCE 1354 - African Diasporic Movement 4
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Fourth of six-course sequence. Builds on level 3 by exploring movement from mythology of Afro-Brazilian belief systems orix� and Candombl�. How corporal knowledge and technique fluency through the course sequence support different dance techniques. prereq: 1353 or audition or instr consent
DNCE 1701 - Freshman/Sophomore Repertory
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Immersed in a professional dance company environment, this repertory class will help students develop the necessary skills to effectively navigate the complexities inherent to professional repertory dance companies. Through learning the unique and varied styles of multiple choreographers, the course examines distinguishing factors of these various choreographic works, illuminating for the student, their responsibilities as dance artists and further developing their abilities to maintain the integrity of preexisting works.
DNCE 3010 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 5
Credits: 2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Fifth course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Application of principles of space, time, energy. Alignment, power from pelvic center, rotation/turnout, muscular tonality, joint articulation, clarity of intent, stretch, strength, stamina. prereq: dept consent, audition
DNCE 3020 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 6
Credits: 2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Sixth course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Application of principles of space, time, energy. Alignment, power from pelvic center, rotation/turnout, muscular tonality, joint articulation, clarity of intent, stretch, strength, stamina. prereq: 3010, dept consent, audition
DNCE 3110 - Ballet Technique 5
Credits: 2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Stretch, strength, balance, musicality. Longer phrases in adagio/allegro work. More complex elevations in petit allegro. Practical work conducted in context of study of technical development of ballet. prereq: dept consent, audition
DNCE 3120 - Ballet Technique 6
Credits: 2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Continuation of 3110. Ballet technique. Stretch, strength, balance, musicality. Longer phrases in adagio/allegro work. More complex elevations in petit allegro. prereq: 3110, dept consent, audition
DNCE 3301 - Tap Technique 3
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Tap techniques and creative development through improvisational studies. prereq: 1302 or instr consent
DNCE 3302 - Tap Technique 4
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Tap techniques and rhythm structures. prereq: 3301 or instr consent
DNCE 3334 - Introduction to Dance/Movement Therapy
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Historical/theoretical perspectives on use of movement/dance in relationship to psychology/healing. D/MT pioneers/techniques. Applications of D/MT with various populations/settings. Experiential course. prereq: dept consent
DNCE 3341 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 3: Emerging Scholar
Credits: 1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
This is the third course in the dance program's 4-semester Urban and Street Dance sequence. It focuses on intermediate/advanced techniques in rocking, breaking, funk styles, krump, house, and specific techniques that mix these forms together. These further explorations focus on more advanced techniques, aesthetics, and complex issues within forms practiced by instructors. Students are assigned readings, videos, and writing assignments to think critically about each issue. There is an informal showing at the end of the semester. prereq: Completion of DNCE 2341 or audition.
DNCE 3402W - Dance History 2 (WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
History/theory of dance in varied forms/aspects. From development of ballet through 20th century modern dance. Second half of year-long survey. prereq: 3401W
DNCE 3411 - Dance and Popular Culture: Choreographing Race, Class, and Gender (DSJ)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
How race, class, and gender become aestheticized and are put into motion as popular culture. Choreographic analysis of moving bodies. How "popular" affects understanding of culture. Exoticism, binary structures of stereotypes, identity, hegemony.
DNCE 3433 - Articulate Body
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Lectures and movement sessions in biodynamic considerations for optimal dance performance and metabolistic demands of dance. prereq: Dnce major, dept consent
DNCE 3602 - Dance Composition 2
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Movement, vocabulary in relation to theme, space, time, energy, and body parts. Solo, duet, and trio forms. prereq: 3601, dept consent, concurrent regis in a modern dance technique course
DNCE 3621 - Dance Production I
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Technical/administrative aspects of dance production. Lighting, costumes, sound, marketing, stage management, fundraising, publicity. Emphasizes practical project management and personal management skills. prereq: Dance major, dept consent
DNCE 3622 - Dance Production II
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Continuation of 3621. Students produce the spring Student Dance Concert. prereq: 3621, dance major, dept consent
DNCE 3700 - Performance
Credits: 1.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Creation or reconstruction of a dance theatre work under the direction of a guest artist or faculty member. Work is performed at the end of the rehearsal period. prereq: Concurrent enrollment in a technique course, audition, dept consent
DNCE 4443 - Theorizing Dancing Bodies
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Dnce 4443/Dnce 5443
Typically offered: Every Fall
Major developments in Western philosophic thought on dance and dance theory, from its beginnings to present. prereq: 3402W or instr consent
DNCE 4601 - Dance Composition 3
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Continuation of movement vocabulary through improvisation, analysis of form and structure, experimentation with tone and performance persona. Effects of lights/costumes/text/props/music; development of larger ensemble works. prereq: 3602, concurrent regis in a modern dance technique course, dept consent
DNCE 5010 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 7
Credits: 2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Seventh course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Continuation of technical development. Performance range/style. Students study with various guest artists. prereq: dept consent, audition
DNCE 5020 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 8
Credits: 2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Eighth course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Performance range/style. Students study with various guest artists. prereq: 5010, dept consent, audition
DNCE 5443 - Theorizing Dancing Bodies
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Dnce 4443/Dnce 5443
Typically offered: Every Fall
Major developments in Western philosophic thought on dance and dance theory, from its beginnings to present. prereq: instr consent
DNCE 5493 - Choreographing Social Justice: Staging "Equitable" Choreographies
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Possibilities and implications of artistic work. Metaphoric bodily practices and intersections of performance and social justice practices. Theories and histories of intersections within communities of color across global North and South. Group project. prereq: 4443 recommended
DNCE 5700 - Performance
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 8.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Technique, improvisation, choreography, music, design, and technical production as they relate to dance performance. prereq: concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in technique course, dept consent, audition based Students cast in more than one choreographic piece should register for section 002 for 2 credits
DNCE 5858 - Dance Pedagogy
Credits: 3.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Teaching dance provides the foundational pedagogy and methods for artful and responsible teaching and learning in dance. Students will examine key dance education theories and quality teaching practices, and then apply the theories by developing and teaching dance lessons. The course introduces tools that assist in the planning, teaching, assessing, and sharing of dance experiences with children, adolescent, and adult learners in a variety of settings. Specific learning opportunities include: readings, investigation and discussion of dance pedagogy; the creation of lesson plans; teaching labs (in-class and off-site supervised practice teaching); and clinical observations where students can observe the theory in practice.