Dance Course Offerings

Jazz 1
Humanities
Course Code: 8721
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
This is an introduction to Jazz Dance through beginning technique class. This is a participation course that requires students to be involved in warmups, movement combinations, evaluations, and discussions.

Jazz 2
Humanities
Course Code: 8722
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Jazz Dance 2 includes strength, flexibility and conditioning technique and progressions including turns, kicks and leaps. Dancers will learn choreography to popular and age appropriate music of today along with vintage styles of Jazz.

Jazz 3
HumanitiesJazz 3 (H)
Course Code: 8723
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Jazz Dance courses provide students with ongoing training in jazz dance and emphasize improving students’ technique. In Jazz dance 3 students will learn fun and trendy dance steps that are used in all forms of dance. It is a wonderful class to get a well-rounded variety of all dance steps.

Jazz 4
Humanities
Course Code: 8724
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Jazz 4 Dance course provide students with ongoing training in jazz dance and emphasize improving students’ technique.

Tap 1
Humanities
Course Code: 8731
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
This is an introduction to Tap Dance through beginning class. This is a participation course that requires students to be involved with warmups, movement combinations, and discussions.

Tap 2
Humanities
Course Code: 8732
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
An intermediate course designed for students who have had at least one year of Tap dance. Emphasis on fundamental skills and rhythms, time steps, footwork, short combinations and styling.

Tap 3
Humanities
Course Code: 8733
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Tap Dance courses provide students with ongoing training in tap dance and emphasize improving students’ technique. Encourages freedom of exploration and self-expression.

Tap 4
Humanities
Course Code: 8734
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Tap 4 Dance courses provide students with ongoing training in tap dance and emphasize improving students’ technique.

Ballet 1
Humanities
Course Code: 8741
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of classical ballet technique. Students participate in conditioning, movement exercises and dance phrases designed to increase knowledge and improve execution of ballet steps.

Ballet 2
Humanities
Course Code: 8742
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
An intermediate course designed for students who have had at least one year of ballet experience. Further refinement of technique, alignment, strength, balance, and flexibility will be achieved through barre and floor work.

Ballet 3
Humanities
Course Code: 8743
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Ballet 3 dance courses provide students with ongoing training in Ballet dance and emphasize improving students’ technique.

Ballet 4
Humanities
Course Code: 8744
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Ballet 4 dance courses provide students with ongoing training in Ballet dance and emphasize improving students’ technique.

Modern 1
Humanities
Course Code: 8791
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
This contemporary form focuses on gaining an understanding of how the body moves, proper placement, alignment, and flexibility. This class explores different ways of using organic and creative movements, the floor and traveling through space.

Modern 2
Humanities
Course Code: 8792 / 879B
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
An intermediate course designed for students who have at least one year of modern dance experience. Students will refine modern dance technique through floor work and by studying various movements and styles relevant to current modern dance technique.

Modern 3
Humanities
Course Code: 8793
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Modern Dance courses provide students with ongoing training in modern dance and emphasize improving students’ technique. Encourages freedom of exploration and self-expression.

Modern 4
Humanities
Course Code: 8794
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Modern 4 dance courses provide students with ongoing training in modern dance and emphasize improving students’ technique.

Hip Hop 1
Humanities
Course Code: 1024 / 1024A / 1024B / 1024C
Credits: 0.5
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
This high-energy introductory course will focus on the foundations and origins of Hip-Hop dance culture including street, commercial and freestyle forms. Students will be encouraged to step outside of the box by bringing their own individual style and personality to movements. Students will be challenged and encouraged to understand and apply historical and practical knowledge of Hip-Hop through class activities and performances. 

Hip Hop 2
Humanities
Course Code: 1022 / 1022A / 1022B / 1022C
Credits: 0.5
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
This high-energy introductory course will focus on the foundations and origins of Hip-Hop dance culture including street, commercial and freestyle forms. Students will be encouraged to step outside of the box by bringing their own individual style and personality to movements. Students will be challenged and encouraged to understand and apply historical and practical knowledge of Hip-Hop through class activities and performances. 

Choreography 1
Humanities
Course Code: 8771 / 877E
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Students will explore key concepts of dance making with a focus on improvisation, composition, and choreographic processes and principles. Encourages freedom of exploration and self-expression.

Choreography 2
Humanities
Course Code: 8772
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Students create choreography and work in collaboration with dancers to fulfill their creative objectives. The final dance piece is presented to the class and or audience. Encourages freedom of exploration and self-expression.

Choreography 3
Humanities
Course Code: 8773
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Dance Choreography courses teach students how to apply choreographic principles and dance forms to create fully developed choreography for formal or informal presentations. These courses may also help students create dances with a beginning, middle, and conclusion. Critical analysis of the works of others and reflection skills on the learners own work are developed. Encourages freedom of exploration and self-expression. 

Dance Performance
Humanities
Course Code: 8781 / 878E
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Students will develop fundamental skills in dance through movement, placement, alignment, and technique, for selected dance forms which may include ballet, jazz, modern, tap, and social dances. Students will cultivate dance vocabulary, study dance history, and develop improvisational and performance skills. Participation in co-curricular activities and performances may be required to receive credit for this course. 

Dance Performance 2
Humanities
Course Code: 8782 / 878B
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Students will develop fundamental skills in dance through movement, placement, alignment, and technique, for selected dance forms which may include ballet, jazz, modern, tap, and social dances. Students will cultivate dance vocabulary, study dance history, and develop improvisational and performance skills. Participation in co-curricular activities and performances may be required to receive credit for this course. 

Dance Performance 3
Humanities
Course Code: 8783 / 878C
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Students will develop fundamental skills in dance through movement, placement, alignment, and technique, for selected dance forms which may include ballet, jazz, modern, tap, and social dances. Students will cultivate dance vocabulary, study dance history, and develop improvisational and performance skills. Participation in co-curricular activities and performances may be required to receive credit for this course. 

Dance Performance 4
Humanities
Course Code: 1029
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Dance Performance courses provide students with experience in one or more dance forms. Initial classes are usually introductory in nature, while the more advanced classes concentrate on improving students’ technique through the art of performance.

Styles of Dance
Humanities
Course Code: 8751
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
Students will gain a basic knowledge of the history and application of many styles if dance and techniques. This will include but not is not limited to tap, ballet, modern, hip hop and social dances. 

Dance for Musical Theater
Humanities
Course Code: 1020 / 1020A / 1020B / 1020C
Credits: 1.0
Grade: All
Weight: General
Schools: WAMS
This course is designed to offer instruction in techniques of Broadway dance. Students will  apply a variety of theatrical styles such as jazz and tap. Students will also increase their knowledge of Broadway’s most high-profile choreographers and their famous works. Students will gain the ability to apply dance technique and learn to express musicality in a physical way through class activities and performances.