UGA Bulletin

Course Description

Students will create, rehearse, and produce an original work to be presented in the fall student concert each year.

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Choreographic Lab

Prerequisite

Second or third-year student standing and permission of department

Semester Course Offered

Offered fall

Grading System

A - F (Traditional)

Student learning Outcomes

Students will practice concepts and skills related to dance composition as well as skills in working in a dance-making process, culminating in a public performance.

Topical Outline

Audition performers and work with peer choreographers to cast works
Write a descriptive proposal of project
Conduct/lead weekly rehearsals with dancers
Manage communication and scheduling with dancers and technical director, in technical and dress rehearsals and performances
Participate collaboratively and cooperatively with choreographer and other performers in dance-making process
Attend technical and dress rehearsals and performances
Assist in cleanup of dressing room or other (strike)
Reflection and analysis of project

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.

Leadership & Collaboration

The capacity to engage in the relational process of optimizing personal and collective strengths toward a common goal.

Syllabus

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