Overview
Dance I-IV, is designed to promote and enhance student awareness and appreciation of dance as a performing art. Students will develop a personal, physical, kinesthetic, social, and historical understanding about dance. Students will use intellect, artistic expression, and technique in order to produce and reproduce various styles of dance. The course will include dance performance in ballet, lyrical/modern, jazz, hip-hop, tap and ballroom. In addition to dance performance students will be expected to attain knowledge of dance terminology, composition, and choreography. All students enrolled in this course will be expected to participate/ perform in the Fall and Spring formal dance concerts.
Course Goals & Objectives
- To introduce or reinforce the principals and proper technique of various dance forms by applying kinesiological concepts to movement efficiency and safety.
- To improve skill level and competence in movement and development of students dance/choreographic style by providing movement experiences that explore use of gravity, spatial awareness, rhythm, and energy while introducing compositional elements of choreography and movement analysis
- To develop and improve students strength and flexibility with daily body conditioning. (Yoga, Pilates, Ballet Barre work, etc.)
- To provide a variety of movement combinations and styles eventually focusing on performance skill in class and in live stage performances and student choreographic debuts.
Course Outline
Technique- Ballet, Modern/Lyrical, Jazz, Hip Hop, Tap & Ballroom
Understanding basic ballet terminology
Includes the basic positions of the arms, feet, and body and directions of the body and proper body alignment for various techniques
Apply knowledge of stationary warm-up techniques in modern, lyrical & hip hop dance.
Includes types of stationary warm-up techniques and their purposes, and proper body alignment and weight distribution for various techniques
Apply knowledge of tap dance
Include basic tap dance terminology, kinds of tap dance, and proper body alignment and weight distribution for various skills
Body Conditioning
Apply knowledge of Pilates body conditioning & Bartenieff Fundamentals, Yoga and other stretching exercises.
Includes proper technique and body alignment to prevent injury, reduce injury, and properly stretch and elongate muscles.
Composition & choreography
Utilization of choreographic tools
Understanding the use of space, shape, time and energy (dynamics) as a design element in dance
Understand the element of rhythm, meter, tempo & dynamics within the movement and musical accompaniment.
Understanding basic ballet terminology
Includes the basic positions of the arms, feet, and body and directions of the body and proper body alignment for various techniques
Apply knowledge of stationary warm-up techniques in modern, lyrical & hip hop dance.
Includes types of stationary warm-up techniques and their purposes, and proper body alignment and weight distribution for various techniques
Apply knowledge of tap dance
Include basic tap dance terminology, kinds of tap dance, and proper body alignment and weight distribution for various skills
Body Conditioning
Apply knowledge of Pilates body conditioning & Bartenieff Fundamentals, Yoga and other stretching exercises.
Includes proper technique and body alignment to prevent injury, reduce injury, and properly stretch and elongate muscles.
Composition & choreography
Utilization of choreographic tools
Understanding the use of space, shape, time and energy (dynamics) as a design element in dance
Understand the element of rhythm, meter, tempo & dynamics within the movement and musical accompaniment.