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2017-2018 Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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33-1331 Topics in Dance Technique:


This course teaches specific movement forms and styles that increase students’ base of abilities as dancers, while broadening their understanding of dance traditions and practices throughout the world. Each semester a different discipline or set of disciplines is featured, such as cultural styles, concert forms, movement sciences, or specific modern techniques. Examples include jazz, tap, Bharata Natyam, flamenco, African, Irish, and tai chi chuan and hip hop. Instruction covers background, history, and current applications of the topic in addition to the actual dance technique. Course develops awareness of movement and aesthetic principles particular to each example and explores social and cultural traditions that evolve from and characterize each dance.

1 Credits Repeatable



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