Dance for Fitness
Dance for Fitness
2023-2024 Offerings: Q4 only(!)
This course is designed to give students a fun, high-energy, alternative approach to cardiovascular fitness. This course will help students learn the basic skills of dance while improving their techniques, poise, self confidence, and creative ability. Students will engage in: proper warm ups and stretching, basic movements and steps, pattern recognition, pattern building, combinations, and full routines. By the end of the course, students will choreograph their own dance and teach it to the class. No dance experience necessary - grades will be based on effort!
Objectives:
Students will:
Identify and experiment with Time Studies (phrasing, tempo changes, rhythm patterns)
Identify and experiment with Spatial Design Studies (change of direction and level, symmetrical/asymmetrical)
Identify and experiment with Effort Studies/Quality of Movement (pendular, sustained, suspended, vibratory, percussive, collapsing, rigidity)
Observe, analyze, and reflect on various dance examples on film
Recreate dances seen on film
Create their own dances, both solo and group
Teach their own choreography to the class
Learn each other’s choreography