Modern Dance Technique I

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In Modern Dance Technique I, students will hone technical skills and expand their movement vocabulary in the art form of modern dance. Students will be challenged to increase personal range of motion, deepen expressive qualities, clarify initiation, experience different orientations of the spine, develop a comfortable relationship with gravity through safe pathways into the floor, accurately execute complex movement phrases with confidence and experiment with individual movement choices and choreography. Students will also have the opportunity to attend a live modern dance performance, research about the history and theories of modern dance and discuss how individual choreographic artists have influenced.