Attendance at least once a week at a dance technique class. Work includes rehearsals with choreographer, independent work on choreography, weekly meetings to show and discuss work in progress and participation in technical work for production. This is an intermediate level technique class in dance which will call on vocabularies from Modern, Ballet and Post Modern styles as well as a variety of body-mind disciplines, such as Alexander technique, Feldenkrais work, or release techniques in order to give students a chance to support their growth in dancing. Students will have the opportunity to learn points of view about art as a personal, cultural and social activity which the various vocabularies of movement taught in this class embody or imply. Emphasis will change depending on the instructor.
Class also includes work on sensory awareness and improvisation.
One credit may be applied to Physical Education requirement. This is a second level ballet class which builds on students' familiarity with some of the basic vocabulary and with issues of alignment and connectedness in the body. One credit may be applied to Physical Education requirement. An introduction to Laban analysis as a tool for observing movement shape and quality in our own and other cultures. Work with visiting dancers on several different ethnic dance forms.