Tap Dance I

Catalog description

This is an intermediate level tap dance course that focuses on warm-up sequences, across the floor progressions, and center floor combinations that advance students technical proficiencies in tap. Students expand their technical capabilities and aesthetic range with work on complex rhythms, steps, foot articulations, and whole-body alignment. Students expand their expressive potential for tap dance through application of listening skills, personal musicianship, and study of contemporary forms and diverse styles of tap dance. Class work also includes call and respond exercises, improvisation, choreographic study, and discussion.