Intermediate Ballet

Catalog description

Intermediate Ballet expands upon the foundations of Beginning Ballet, the understanding of the basic positions and steps. The focus will be on mastering the basic positions and steps while introducing more complicated exercises both at the barre and the center. Center floor work will include the development and practice of adagio and allegro combinations as well as turns and leaps (jetes). Students will be given opportunities of perfecting their technique and musicality in longer sequences, both at the barre and center floor. A class dance will be learned and the techniques covered in the class will be applied. Students will also be given the opportunity of choreographing an individual phrase for the class dance. Ballet history is also explored as a source for understanding where certain traditions originated. The course also includes some outside written work and performance attendance to better provide a background necessary to the appreciation of dance as a creative art form. Prerequisite: SLM/ THE 110A .