Tap Dance II

Catalog description

This is an advanced tap course that broadens the technical range, movement vocabulary, and aesthetic choices of students. Course exploration focuses on challenging, extended warm-up sequences, across the floor progressions, and center floor combinations that require students to apply technical proficiencies in tap. This course aims to expand the technical and expressive capacities of students through continued work on intricate rhythms, steps, and foot articulations that require whole body integration. Additionally, students explore a fusion of historical and contemporary forms of tap dance and participate in the advanced study of improvisation, choreographic study, and musicianship.