I hope that as you become more confident in your body, strength, balance, posture and abilities, you will learn to be confident in off-center movement, trust yourself to move fully and with risk and finally be conscious of and able to make choices even while dancing full out. Purchase tickets in advance. I often partner people together to maximize the efficiency of feedback. There will be two combinations among the many we will learn that you will have to work on and bring to a performance condition. You will be tested on them.
Dancing is a communal experience, even taking technique classes.
The positive energy you share makes a great difference. You will be responsible for one collaborative dance emphasizing technique with between three and four of your classmates to be shared with the rest of the class in the last two weeks of the semester. If you have trouble dancing one particular phrase or combination, you are expected to work on it outside of class. You must also work on the qualitative and performance aspects of movement. There are no readings, per se, for the course, though they are available.