Course Description: Presents dance in a broad artistic, cultural, historical, scientific and creative context, providing multiple frameworks inside which students can understand and appreciate dance throughout their lives. Activities include equal parts viewing, creating, performing, discussing, evaluating and contextualizing dance, in and out of the studio. Fall, Spring (Group IV)
Course Delivery- Hybrid: The class will be split into 2 groups. One group will attend in-person Tues and the other Thursday for in-person movement practice and focused learning. Online journals, discussions, readings, and viewings will be assigned each week and detailed in the topical outline in the syllabus. Flipgrid, Google Classroom, and Zoom are additional methods to deliver course materials.
Course Description: Presents dance in a broad artistic, cultural, historical, scientific and creative context, providing multiple frameworks inside which students can understand and appreciate dance throughout their lives. Activities include equal parts viewing, creating, performing, discussing, evaluating and contextualizing dance, in and out of the studio. Fall, Spring (Group IV)
Course Delivery- Hybrid: DANC 105.2 is a hybrid course. I will conduct in-person classes while connected to remote students via Zoom. All Zoom classes will be recorded for anyone unable to attend. Additional prerecorded videos of dance and movement material will be available for further clarity for everyone. Each Monday we will meet in-person to discuss readings and viewings as a whole class. Each Wednesday, half of the class will meet in-person for full movement instruction in a space large enough to follow safety guidelines, while the other half works remotely. Each Friday, we will swap groups.
Course Description: Through participation in the production program in the Chappelear Drama Center, students may earn 0.25 units of credit each half semester for satisfactorily completing contracted production or performance responsibilities. Four fractional units equal one semester course credit. Prerequisite: contract must be arranged with instructor.
Course Delivery- Hybrid: DANC 225 is a performance class in which we will address ways to train and take care of ourselves and operate as an ensemble. We will begin the semester in-person with hour long discussions on Monday evenings socially distanced in the dance studio and then proceed outside the studio for an hour of movement explorations and training.
Course Description: Movement studies that examine compositional dance elements including time, space, weight and effort. Students create solo movement investigations that combine the various dance elements. Emphasis on individual movement proclivities and choreographic intent. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor or DANC 215. Fall (Group IV)
Course Delivery- Hybrid: DANC 315 is a hybrid course in that students may share choreographic processes in-person in the dance studio. However, there are wonderful opportunities to explore socially distanced choreographic performances in alternative spaces and framed with a video camera. Exercises and creative processes can take place live with distance and/or remotely. Feedback and coaching can take place live, in-person, and virtually online.
Course Description: Through participation in the production program in the Chappelear Drama Center, students may earn 0.5 unit of credit per production for satisfactorily completing a contracted major production or performance responsibility, i.e., a crew head, choreographing a dance, a major role. Two fractional units equal one semester-credit course. Prerequisite: contract must be arranged with instructor.
Course Delivery- Hybrid: DANC 345 is a performance class in which we will address ways to train and take care of ourselves and operate as an ensemble. We will begin the semester in-person with hour long discussions on Monday evenings socially distanced in the dance studio and then proceed outside the studio for an hour of movement explorations and training.