DEL Dance and Culture - Tracing Footsteps Journey into Jazz Dance - Let’s Swing! ((4 Credits))

Catalog description

In this course, participants will delve into the DEL Tracing Footsteps Journey into Jazz Dance - Let’s Swing! curriculum, created in response to the need to provide free high-quality remote learning dance education instruction and materials to all NYC public school students K-12. Journey into Jazz Dance - Let’s Swing! focuses on the Africanist roots of early Jazz dance and the emergence of the Lindy Hop in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s - 1940’s. In this course, participants will receive an overview of the Tracing Footsteps curricular model, explore components of the grade-specific dance units, engage in culturally responsive pedagogy practices, identify innovative remote learning instructional practices, and apply the DEL model to collaborative dance-making and lesson plan design. Through embodied practice, collective inquiry, and exposure to a wide range of resources (guest dance artists and facilitators, video tutorials, and visually stimulating teaching materials), participants will learn how to bring dance history to life in their dance classrooms. Students interested in our partnership program with the 92nd Street Y Dance Education Laboratory must contact Dr. Cindy Bates ([email protected]) for permission to enroll in this study. Students will also be expected to register at and pay an additional fee to DEL (Dance Education Laboratory).