Intermediate Modern Dance

Catalog description

Intermediate Modern Dance expands upon the fundamentals covered in Beginning Modern Dance and explores more deeply improving anatomical awareness, increasing strength and flexibility, expanding the modern dance vocabulary, and developing flow and dynamic range. The students will demonstrate, define, and perform demonstrating an understanding of these concepts. A class dance will be learned and students will also be responsible for choreographing a partner phrase for the class dance. The class will critique, discuss and analyze line, design, technique, choreography, and dynamic qualities through personal performance, class discussions, posted videos, and concert critiques. Along with discussing the blurring of lines between modern and contemporary dance, the course also includes some outside written work and performance attendance to better provide a background necessary to the appreciation of modern dance as a creative art form. Prerequisite: SLM/ THE 110G .