DAN 202 - Modern Dance 4

 
Description
In this advanced modern dance course, students refine their skills as dancers through rigorous technical training. Advanced exercises challenge students physically and artistically. Performance techniques and choreography for large groups are developed. Compositional principles including theme, variation and counterpoint are explored. Students examine modern dance history within cultural and temporal contexts. Additionally, analysis of a professional production in terms of form and content furthers dance appreciation. The goal is for students to attain mastery of advanced modern dance skills through refining technique, compositional approaches and contextual understanding of dance both as an art and within shifting eras.

1. Analyze how historical and cultural influences have shaped developments in dance as an art form over time.
2. Perform dance combinations at an advanced level.
3. Show an increase in their muscular strength, flexibility, kinesthetic awareness and cardiovascular capacity.
4. Choreograph a dance composition utilizing more than one dancer.
5. Analyze dance work in terms of form and content after viewing a professional dance production.

1. Flexibility exercises
2. Advanced dance technique
3. Dance phrases
4. Use of body weight and flow of movement
5. Compositional concepts
6. Overview of twentieth century modern dance history

• Communication
• Culture Society & Citizenship

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