This course offers an opportunity to explore how place and landscape offer inspiration and opportunities for dance, performance and embodied experience. Place can include natural landscapes, buildings, parks, pathways, stairways, living rooms, and the place of our bodies. The goal of this course is to create bridges between the ecological and the poetic realms of human experience. Students will explore how creativity is being in relationship to things, beings, environments, and the historical and cultural contexts.

By audition/permission only.

By audition/permission only. Prerequisite: DAN 216.

Journey through time and experience in your own body the evolution of hip hop from its social dance roots to the contemporary phenomenon of commercial choreography that hip hop has become. Using film and text in addition to studio work, this class creates a framework from which to understand and participate in the global culture of hip hop 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.

Prerequisite: previous dance experience.

This course provides students with a practical and theoretical understanding of the relationship between strength, flexibility, and mobility of the body. Through experiential methods students learn how the connective tissues of the body function as an interconnected web which facilitates movement, alignment, coordination, and proprioception. We develop an individualized practice throughout the semester drawing from various movement systems and dance training methods. We examine the relationship between strength, flexibility, and agility as applied to dancing.

A laboratory course based on the preparation and performance of department productions. Students may elect to fulfill course requirements from a wide array of production related responsibilities, including stage crew. It may not be used for performance or choreography. May be taken four times for credit, with maximum of two credits per semester. Can be taken with DAN 200.

A laboratory course based on the preparation and performance of department productions. Students may elect to fulfill course requirements from a wide array of production related responsibilities, including stage crew. It may not be used for performance or choreography. May be taken four times for credit, with a maximum of two credits per semester.