Dance courses provide integrated experience of theoretical and practical learning. All dance classes are focused toward presence in performance and an enlarged capacity for aesthetic response. It is an autonomous program housed with the Department of Athletics, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
Coursework receives academic or physical education credit.
The curriculum addresses dance in its anthropological, historical, technical, physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions. Individual exploratons of these dimensions are encouraged. A base knowledge and technique enables the dancer to create his or her own vocabulary of movement. Work with creative processes promotes a kind of spontaneity and expressiveness that comes from integration of kinesthetic, emotinal, and intellectual sensibilities. Moving contentrations in dance to an interdisciplinary minor represents a shift toward acknowledging the depth, diversity, and fullness of the integrative body-mind process which is dance.