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  • Intermediate Jazz
    This course provides students with intermediate jazz movement vocabulary which will be drawn from African American dance traditions and theatrical/ commercial jazz dance styles. Students are expected to be familiar with basic dance vocabulary and anatomical principles as covered in beginning dance classes. Through the use of Moodle, video technology and video editing techniques, the students will videotape and assess the quality and technique of their performance of the movement material. In addition the students will complete written research to be presented in conjunction with a solo jazz dance performance. The course will culminate in a showing of the movement material generated during the term - date and time TBA.
  • Dance Ensemble

    Course Description:

    Dance Ensemble is a two-term academic course that serves as a capstone experience for intermediate and advanced dance students who wish to experience working as an ensemble. Each term students participate in company class sessions, which focus on building dance technique. In addition, extra time will be scheduled throughout the two terms for rehearsing individual dance works. The course work includes: learning selected choreography for performance opportunities, conducting outreach activities, group participation in class and rehearsals, touring to area schools, museums, community centers and performing at Knox.

  • Dance History
    This course is designed to introduce students to the history of Western Theatrical Dance with a focus on dance in North America.We begin this history by first looking at the role African Dance played in shaping American Dance forms and follow through to post modern dance in America.The class will meet three times a week, two of those meeting times being for class lectures, while one class will be for an experiential lesson that brings together historical research with practical experience.
  • Beginning Jazz Dance
    This course allows guest users to enter  

    A beginning level jazz dance technique class that offers a historical overview of jazz dance through selected readings and includes an introduction to basic anatomy and dance vocabulary. The class will follow a standard format from warm up exercises to the performance of movement phrases. Course work will also include selected readings and viewing dance on film.At the end of the term the students will participate in an informal showing of the dance material generated during the term: Monday, November 16 at 4:00PM in the Dance Center.

  • Beginning Modern-Smith
    Dance is the most fundamental of the arts, using the body as a tool for expression and communication. By studying the art form of dance, students learn the most basic form of communication through the body and develop a physical and aesthetic base for understanding themselves and their relationship to their physical/intellectual and spiritual world.

    Classes in Beginning Modern Dance consist of a series of technical exercises that condition the body for strength, flexibility, endurance and coordination; develop a physical and conceptual awareness of the elements of space, time and energy; and exhibit performance skills of concentration, focus and musicality. Lectures on human anatomy and dance terminology will also be included in this course.
  • Dance Theory and Improvisation
    More than any other aspect of dance training, improvisation calls forth the human spirit. Participating fully in a movement improvisation equally engages the body and the mind. It pushes boundaries and awakens new ideas for the participant. Through the on-going analysis of improvisation, students expand their movement vocabulary by studying dance at its core. Movement improvisation introduces the terminology needed to communicate about the art form and prepares the student for further study in dance composition. Finally, it begins to develop the eye needed by an educated dance-audience member, and provides opportunities to evolve ideas about the art form of dance.
  • Intermediate Modern

    Intermediate modern dance offers students the opportunity to improve their technical skills as well as develop performance technique. The movement material will be drawn from the study of Lester Horton Dance Technique and the use of improvisation for creating variations with the movement phrases that are generated throughout the term. The students coming into this class are expected to demonstrate a working knowledge of dance / movement terminology and anatomical principles as covered in all beginning level courses. The emphasis in the course will focus on the student’s use of expression in their dance performance.The selected reading for the course will include excerpts from:

    1. Free Play Improvisation in Life and Art, Stephen Nachmanovitch

    2. Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance, Eric Franklin

    3. The Moment of Movement Dance Improvisation, Lynne Anne Blom and L. Tarin Chaplin