Theater and Dance 120H - Dance Technique: Beginning/Intermediate Ballet

This is a course in the study and practice of ballet -- a dance technique originating in the Italian Renaissance royal courts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- as a contemporary movement vocabulary.  Objectives include the intellectual and physical introcution to -- or continuing practice in -- ballet technique, as well as increased body awareness, alignment, flexibility, coordination, body strength, musical phrasing, and the expressive potential of movement. The course material is presented at the beginning and intermediate levels. A half-course. This course may be repeated for credit.  Limited to 22 students. Fall semester. Visiting Instructor Goudie-Averill.

How to handle overenrollment: Preference given to majors, first-year and second-year students.

Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: This course will involve regular attendance and class participation, class discussion, reading, possible viewing and writing assignments, group work outside of class including rehearsal or other artistic assignments appropriate to the workload for a 2-credit half-course, as well as physical or vocal performance work and/or visual, aural, and physical analysis as applicable. Attendance at performances outside of class may also be required.