2 hours. Repeatable for maximum 8 hours credit. . 4.5 hours lab per week.
Contemporary Modern Dance IV
Creativity & Innovation
Course Description
Advanced/pre-professional level course designed to aid the
student in further 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 IV
Prerequisite
Eight hours of DANC 4654 and permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will vividly demonstrate/embody and consistently apply foundational movement concepts (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 to further their skills in advanced level contexts such as guided, advanced-level movement problems and structures for both duet and solo contexts
Students will demonstrate applied knowledge and understanding of advanced level contemporary modern vocabulary including but not limited to combined, complex contexts of falls, spinal articulation in all planes, spiraling, off-verticality, weight-shifting, level changes, and apply advanced improvisational tools, and demonstrate individual artistic interpretation and even critical approaches that demonstrate innovation
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), consistency, and innovation to move both safely, and intuitively in fulfilling an intention or goal, and have opportunities to develop warmups or other activities to lead the class to demonstrate their understanding
Students will utilize various artistic skills (such as risk, focused presence, emotional connection, projection, and musicality) with clarity and versatility (in varied contexts) and consistency in varied contexts, including solo performance, to formulate a unique movement signature/artistic interpretation, as well as communicate ideas/emotions and/or movement forms for an audience
Students will synthesize their knowledge and understanding and apply it to the mentorship of peers in movement activities/movement problems
Topical Outline
Applying safe warmup and cool-down principles in various contexts
Practices in advanced-level floor-based vocabulary and principles
Practices in advanced-level standing and locomotor vocabulary and principles
Practices in rehearsing and performing extended phrases, including solo performance, to develop performance and artistry
Creative problem solving in the building of phrases or exercises based on given material or structures
Leading peers in movement activities to demonstrate understanding
Mentor/lead peers in movement activities
Reflection and peer-review of performances
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
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.
