Students will be expected to sum up their four-year experience through connecting with a research topic as it relates to previously studied material. A faculty mentor is assigned to the student as a guide in the written work. Restricted to students in the Honors Program working on their Honors degree. Advanced technique for Ballet West Company members. Coaching of couples in contemporary works as well as grand pas de deux from the classical repertory.
Course meets the first half of each semester.
A two-semester advanced choreography course taught on the graduate level. Focus is the study of choreographic masterworks, the artists who created them, and analysis of the music used for these works. The second semester of a two-semester course in advanced choreography for undergraduates. Elements and principles of ballet teaching. Assignments are practiced and critiqued in laboratory sessions.