DA-115 Fundamentals of Voice & Movement (2.00 credits)
Open to all students. In this studio/lab course, the student explores the potential of the human body. Focusing on techniques of breath control, relaxation, vocal production, and movement, students increase self-awareness and expressive potential by expanding a personal repertoire of vocal and movement choices.
DA-130 Contemporary Dance Technique 1 (2.00 credits)
This course introduces students to creating dance and movement works. Through classroom exercises, performance viewings, readings and discussion, the student is introduced to numerous approaches to choreography and creation. Students create original works that are refined throughout the semester and presented formally in a showcase at the end of the semester.
DA-131 African Dance Technique (2.00 credits)
In this course the student is introduced to selected styles of African dance as they have been communicated via oral tradition. Students learn, practice, and demonstrate exercises and movement patterns that are part of this discipline and art form.
DA-132 Contemporary Dance Technique I (2.00 credits)
Students are introduced to the art of contemporary/modern dance, physically learning, rehearsing and performing movement. Focus is placed on engaging in the creative processes. Work is presented in a culminating showcase.
DA-132A Tap Dance (2.00 credits)
Students are introduced to the art of tap dance, physically learning, rehearsing and performing movement. Focus is placed on engaging in the creative processes, technique and rhythm. Work is presented in a culminating showcase.
DA-133 Jazz Techniques (2.00 credits)
This course introduces the student to the practice of contomporary jazz dance, including an emphasis on rhythm and style.
DA-134 Jazz Dance Technique (2.00 credits)
Jazz Technqiue I is an experiential class in beginning jazz dance technique. The purpose of the course is to provide the student with a fundamental understanding and experience with jazz dance both as a technique and art form. This will occur primarily through the experience of dancing. Attention will be on the basic development of jazz dance vocabulary, alignment, balance, coordination, rhythm, performance quality, appropriate class and work etiquette and building connections between dance and everyday life.
DA-210 Improvisation:Creative Approach Perform (2.00 credits)
The student experiences and examines improvisational techniques and structures from theater and dance/movement perspectives. Students create and analyze their own classroom improvisations; they also examine and evaluate theater and dance works generated through improvisation.
DA-210C Improvisation:creative Approach Perform (2.00 credits)
The student experiences and examines improvisational techniques and structures from theater and dance/movement perspectives. Students create and analyze their own classroom improvisations; they also examine and evaluate theater and dance works generated through improvisation.
DA-220 Ballet Technique 1 (2.00 credits)
This two-semester sequence of courses introduces the student to the practice and vocabulary of classical ballet technique. The student applies principles of dynamic alignment and movement mechanics to correctness of style.
DA-230 Contemporary Dance Technique 2 (2.00 credits)
This course introduces the student to basic movement concepts using the vocabulary of modern dance technique. Students focus on understanding principles of dynamic alignment, increasing flexibility, building strength, exploring a range of movement qualities, and increasing spatial awareness. The goals are to develop an understanding of and appreciation for individual movement preferences, habits, and styles, and to expand and refine movement skills according to one's own personal and professional goals.
DA-231 African Dance Technique 2 (2.00 credits)
In this course the student is introduced to selected styles of African dance as they have been communicated via oral tradition. Students learn, practice, and demonstrate exercises and movement patterns that are part of this discipline and art form.
DA-232 Ballet Technique 2 (2.00 credits)
This course introduces the student to the practice and vocabulary of classical ballet technique. The student applies principles of dynamic alignment and movement mechanics to correctness of style.
DA-233 Jazz Techniques 2 (2.00 credits)
This course introduces the student to the practice of contomporary jazz dance, including an emphasis on rhythm and style.
DA-250 Musical Theatre:on Stage & Screen (4.00 credits)
In this studio-and-discussion class, students will study the most popular theatrical genre of the 20th and 21st Centuries--the musical. By analyzing scripts, libretti, scores and production practices, the students will explore the musical's evolution in terms of form and content. Using performance-based analytic frameworks, the students will investigate the relationship among spoken text, music, movement and visual production practices. Through cultural and historical analysis, students will explore how the musical reflects or envisions political, economic, and social realities. The students will also analyze how the medium of film has influenced the musical's development. These multi-dimensional analyses will assist students in making creative physical, vocal and music choices to present scenes from musicals in class. HFA-210/310 course.
DA-310 Contemp Dance-Amer:Movement & Meaning (2.00 credits)
Explore ballet and modern concert dance in 21st Century USA, through lecture, discussion, research and movement. Topics include: minorities, disability, social media, technology, contact improvisation, and activism.
DA-340 Dance Composition and Performance 1 (3.00 credits)
This course introduces the student to creating dance/movement works. Through classroom exercises, video and performance viewings, and discussion, students are introduced to various approaches to choreography. Students discuss and assess their solutions to various movement problems and show their work informally at the end of the semester.
DA-397 Independent Study (2.00 credits)
Under the approval and direction of a faculty member, independent study is available to students.
DA-440 Dance Composition and Performance 2 (3.00 credits)
Offered Spring Term in alternate years only. Students continue to examine and evaluate their creative processes and resultant works as they choreograph dances to be presented formally at semester's end. They continue to refine their skills in communicating dance ideas and acquire basic notation skills.
DA-490 Seminar:Collaboration in Performance (2.00 credits)
Offered Spring Term only. The focus of this course is the collaborative creation of an original interdisciplinary work. Students from a variety of arts disciplines share their skills and perspectives as they explore issues and themes of common choosing. Using a workshop process, they give form to a performance that is publicly presented as the end of the semester.
DA-495 Senior Seminar: Dance Activism (1.00 credits)
This course provides an opportunity for students to review and refine the abilities they have developed over previous semesters and to explore applications of movement training to their major field of interest.