2 hours. Repeatable for maximum 8 hours credit. . 4.5 hours lab per week.
Contemporary Modern Dance III
Communication
Creativity & Innovation
Course Description
Intermediate to advanced-level course designed to aid the
student in the continued acquisition and development of
technical skills in contemporary dance. Technique and theory
basic to this dance form plus motional properties as they
relate to dance will be emphasized.
Athena Title
Contemporary Modern Dance III
Prerequisite
Four hours of DANC 2652 and permisson of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will apply foundational movement concepts such as breath support, intra-bodily patterning, core support and spatial tethering, dynamic alignment, and rhythmic understanding and phrasing, to a contemporary modern context in exercises and phrases with clarity, versatility (in varied contexts) and consistency
Students will demonstrate applied knowledge and understanding of intermediate/advanced level of contemporary modern vocabulary including but not limited to falls, spinal articulation in all planes, spiraling, off-verticality, weight-shifting, level changes, and apply basic improvisational tools
Students will synthesize applied knowledge of anatomy, safe dance practices, and their individual first-person experience of their body with clarity, versatility (in varied contexts) and developing consistency to move both safely, and intuitively in fulfilling an intention or goal
Students will demonstrate/perform artistic skills (such as risk, focused presence, emotional connection, projection, and musicality) with clarity and versatility (in varied contexts) and developing consistency to communicate ideas/emotions and/or movement forms for an audience
Topical Outline
Review of basic, foundational movement contexts of the contemporary modern idiom
Applying safe warmup and cool-down princples in various contexts
Practices in floor-based vocabulary and principles
Practices in standing and locomotor vocabulary and principles
Practices in rehearsing and performing extended phrases to develop performance and artistry
Creative problem solving in the building of phrases or exercises based on given material or structures
Analysis of performance, self-reflection, and integration of peer and instructor feedback
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Communication
The ability to effectively develop, express, and exchange ideas in written, oral, interpersonal, or visual form.
Creativity & Innovation
The capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways and the experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative way characterized by innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.
