DANC 110 Ballet 1

This course introduces students to beginning level ballet technique designed to develop the dancer’s strength, flexibility, body alignment, vocabulary, musicality, style, and aesthetic presentation. Movement vocabulary covered will include work at the barre, adagio, waltz, petite allegro, and Grande allegro. Students are introduced to a working French vocabulary through class participation, readings, journal writing, and quizzes.

Credits

1

Semester Contact Hours Lecture

60

General Education Competency

[GE Core type]

DANC 110Ballet 1

Please note: This is not a course syllabus. A course syllabus is unique to a particular section of a course by instructor. This curriculum guide provides general information about a course.

I. General Information

Department

Dance

II. Course Specification

Course Type

Program Requirement

General Education Competency

[GE Core type]

Credit Hours Narrative

1

Semester Contact Hours Lecture

60

Grading Method

Letter grade

Repeatable

Y

Credit Hours Maximum, if repeatable

2

III. Catalog Course Description

This course introduces students to beginning level ballet technique designed to develop the dancer’s strength, flexibility, body alignment, vocabulary, musicality, style, and aesthetic presentation. Movement vocabulary covered will include work at the barre, adagio, waltz, petite allegro, and Grande allegro. Students are introduced to a working French vocabulary through class participation, readings, journal writing, and quizzes.

IV. Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to:

• Demonstrate progress toward mastery in technical movement skills and knowledge at the beginning level within the genre of ballet
• Analyze and respond to movement using the language skills required to dance (understand and apply ballet vocabulary to movement)
• Critically and creatively respond to and analyze movement through observation, discussion, and written work
• Memorize and reproduce movement sequences showing proficiency in performing movement for artistic expression in ballet at the beginning level
• Synthesize directions and carry them through consistently in practice or performance settings

V. Topical Outline (Course Content)

Instruction in technical movement skills and knowledge at the beginning level including work at the barre, adagio, waltz, petite allegro, and Grande allegro. Working French vocabulary as it applies to the ballet discipline. Beginning level instruction designed to develop the dancer’s strength, flexibility, body alignment and awareness, vocabulary, musicality, style, and aesthetic presentation

VI. Delivery Methodologies

Required Assignments

Attendance and participation in class. Students are expected to be in every class. Learning to dance requires that the body do it. Students will not gain body awareness, strength, flexibility, or the ability to learn new movement or generate their own movement by hearing about what happened in class from a classmate, or reading a book. There is no way to make up material or missed experiences. Students are granted one permissible absence and may make-up two absences per semester by participating in (if appropriate) or observing and writing a one-page reflection of another movement class (for each absence). The instructor must approve class make-ups. Journal reflective writing. Improve oral, written, and critical thinking skills as they apply to movement through daily use of a dance journal. Response paper. Attend, analyze, and reflect in writing on a pre-approved live dance concert or theatrical production (or watch an approved video of a live performance).

Required Exams

Formative (on-going) assessments: Attendance and participation. Students will demonstrate progress toward mastery in technical movement skills, knowledge, and understanding, learn to memorize and reproduce movement sequences, and show proficiency in performing movement for artistic expression in ballet at the beginning level. Journal writing will be formatively assessed through weekly participation. Summative assessments: Students will be summatively assessed mid-term on their written work to date in their movement journals. Students will be summatively assessed at end of term on their written analysis/reflection of a live dance performance. Students will receive a summative assessment based on attendance and participation for the semester. To earn an A in this category students must consistently reach above and beyond average daily participation exhibiting energetic, attentive, inquisitive, and respectful attitudes.

Required Text

All reading materials providedby instructor.

Specific Course Activity Assignment or Assessment Requirements

Attendance and participation in class. Students are expected to be in every class. Learning to dance requires that the body do it. Students will not gain body awareness, strength, flexibility, or the ability to learn new movement or generate their own movement by hearing about what happened in class from a classmate, or reading a book. There is no way to make up material or missed experiences. Students are granted one permissible absence and may make-up two absences per semester by participating in (if appropriate) or observing and writing a one-page reflection of another movement class (for each absence). The instructor must approve class make-ups. Journal reflective writing. Improve oral, written, and critical thinking skills as they apply to movement through daily use of a dance journal. Response paper. Attend, analyze, and reflect in writing on a pre-approved live dance concert or theatrical production (or watch an approved video of a live performance). Formative (on-going) assessments: Attendance and participation. Students will demonstrate progress toward mastery in technical movement skills, knowledge, and understanding, learn to memorize and reproduce movement sequences, and show proficiency in performing movement for artistic expression in ballet at the beginning level. Journal writing will be formatively assessed through weekly participation. Summative assessments: Students will be summatively assessed mid-term on their written work to date in their movement journals. Students will be summatively assessed at end of term on their written analysis/reflection of a live dance performance. Students will receive a summative assessment based on attendance and participation for the semester. To earn an A in this category students must consistently reach above and beyond average daily participation exhibiting energetic, attentive, inquisitive, and respectful attitudes.