This course is designed to introduce the student to basic movement theories, efficiency of movement, centering, alignment, and body awareness. It introduces the following disciplines: tap, ballet, jazz, and modern. Proper dance attire is required.

Strategies and skills required for the lifelong health of the dancer including proper stretching and techniques for avoiding common dance injuries are discussed in this course.

This course acquaints the dancer with the elements of a dance within a musical production. This involves working with a musical score while keeping the style of the dance true to the production. Students will become familiar with all aspects of staging a musical production.

This course will provide an introduction to and expansion upon modern dance technique, which uses the body as an expressive tool. Students will study techniques and vocabulary-such as body/spatial/sensory awareness, structures, alignment, and gesture-based on Martha Graham, Lester Horton and Doris Humphrey. Floor and center work will be included. Proper dance attire is required.

Classical and modern approaches to the language of ballet will be covered. Barre and center work included. Proper dance attire required.

Classical and modern approaches to the language of ballet will be covered. Barre and center work included. Proper dance attire required.

This course provides an introduction and expansion of the techniques of jazz dance including, but not limited to, isolation and basic rhythmic skills and abilities characteristic of the jazz style. Proper dance attire is required.

This course provides an introduction and expansion of the techniques of jazz dance including, but not limited to, isolation and basic rhythmic skills and abilities characteristic of the jazz style. Proper dance attire is required.

Lyrical dance is a contemporary fluid form of dance fusing ballet, modern, and jazz techniques. The dancer will learn to invest movement with feeling, motion, and style, illustrating the story of a song. Center work and full combinations will be included. Proper dance attire is required.

Includes basic and intermediate levels, steps and methods of tap dance, and terminology and rhythm structures of various tap styles (Broadway, Jazz, Rhythm, Hoofing). Tap shoes are required.

Includes basic and intermediate levels, steps and methods of tap dance, and terminology and rhythm structures of various tap styles (Broadway, Jazz, Rhythm, Hoofing). Tap shoes are required.

Requires comprehensive competency testing as well as outside observation, rehearsal and evaluation hours. This course is a continuation and expansion of the skills and concepts involved in tap, jazz, ballet, and modern.

This course will prepare the dancer for professional practice as an instructor with basic principles and techniques of teaching dance in schools, private studios, and agencies. The course will include lesson planning and teaching practice in selected dance activities.

Students will examine major topics in dance history, i.e., the meaning and function of dance in pre-industrial societies-communal and court dance, and the transformation and development of dance as a theatre art in the modern world. (AE)