Intermediate Modern Dance I

Catalog description

This course is a development of techniques and principles of modern dance at the intermediate level. DANCE 361 Intermediate Modern Dance I (1.5), continues to build on the technical foundation from Beginning Modern I and Beginning Modern II in relation to a release-based modern dance technique. Along with technique, students should develop greater flexibility, strength, and alignment. The emphasis of this course is movement as a lexicon used with specificity for expression of context, content, metaphor, image, and representation. Through this course, students gain a greater understanding of the body as a vehicle for communication and develop skills for creating and performing a specific vocabulary for expression. This course builds upon exploring the use of weight, time, space, energy, initiation, isolation (gesture), integration (whole body or body segment), suspension, and grounding as well as the Bartenieff/Laban vocabularies.