Dance 230 - Intermediate Jazz Funk Dance

Intermediate level dance course, offering experience of the style and culture around the fusion dance form of Jazz Funk. Jazz Funk draws from dance lineages including Jazz and Modern dance, Hip Hop, House, and social dances developed in the clubs and on the streets. Focus is on musicality, rhythm, improvisation, and exchange. Students learn about the Black artists who birthed and developed this form and investigate their individual relationships to the presented ideas and practices. Class contains warm ups, movement vocabulary, phrase work, and performance. Designed for students with some dance experience, but not necessary to have Jazz Funk experience. Enrollment limited to 25. (E)