DAN 201 - Modern Dance 3

 
Description
In this advanced modern dance class, students further develop intermediate to advanced technical skills. Exercises aim to strengthen muscular endurance, flexibility and cardiovascular fitness. Modern techniques enhance spatial and rhythmic awareness. Students explore choreographing for small groups and apply compositional principles like theme and variation. Cultural influences on dance are examined. Additionally, students analyze a professional production. Students refine advanced physical performance in modern dance and gain deeper appreciation of dance as an art form through compositional exploration and consideration of its sociocultural contexts.

1. Analyze how cultural influences shape dance as an art form.
2. Perform dance combinations at an intermediate to advanced level.
3. Show an increase in their muscular strength, flexibility, kinesthetic awareness and cardiovascular capacity.
4. Choreograph a short dance composition utilizing theme and variation.
5. Analyze dance work in terms of form and content after viewing a professional dance production.

1. Flexibility exercises
2. Intermediate dance technique
3. Dance phrases
4. Use of body weight
5. Compositional concepts
6. Influence of culture on dance

• Communication
• Culture Society & Citizenship

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