DANC 220 Dance Team Technique

A continuation of Beginning Jazz Dance, this course emphasizes intermediate techniques and skills while focusing on different styles, such as funk, classical jazz, and lyrical. This course includes Jazz choreography. This course may repeated once for credit.

Credits

2 Credits

Semester Contact Hours Lecture

Semester Contact Hours Lab

Semester Contact Hours Clinical

Prerequisite

DANC 120

DANC 220Dance Team Technique

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

II. Course Specification

Course Type

Program Requirement

Credit Hours Narrative

2 Credits

Semester Contact Hours Lecture

Semester Contact Hours Lab

Semester Contact Hours Clinical

Prerequisite Narrative

DANC 120

Repeatable

Yes

III. Catalog Course Description

IV. Student Learning Outcomes

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

Technical Proficiency – Students will demonstrate foundational jazz dance techniques, including turns, leaps, kicks, isolations and footwork. They will demonstrate correct alignment, flexibility and coordination
Musicality and Rhythm – Students will be able to move with musicality, understanding the relationship between jazz dance and various rhythms, beats, and syncopations in a various genres of music such as jazz, disco, hip hop, Broadway etc.…
Choreographic and Creativity – Students will learn to perform and create short dance routines that reflect style, energy and fluidity. They will create and collaborate with the instructor as well as fellow students.
Performance Quality and Character building – Students will be able to express emotion, mood and character through movement as they showcase dance routines on stage for a live audience. Students will be responsible for scheduling and rehearsing. This promotes character and leadership skills as well as collaborator skills
Historical and Cultural Understanding – Students will gain an understanding of historical and cultural contexts in dance, including its roots in African American, Irish, French and Latin cultures to name a few. Students will study and understand the evolution of dance through decades of learning and performance in society
Body Awareness and Conditioning – Students will demonstrate increased body awareness and physical conditioning focusing on strength, flexibility and injury prevention
Collaboration and Adaptability – Students will be able to collaborate in group settings, learning to work with partners or ensembles while maintaining spatial awareness and adaptability

V. Topical Outline (Course Content)

VI. Delivery Methodologies

Specific Course Activity Assignment or Assessment Requirements

Reflective writing assignments allowing students to research choreographers and dance styles of film and stage over decades of Jazz dance and the social aspect thereof. 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 3 permissible absences and may make up one absence per semester by participating in (if appropriate) or observing and writing a one-page reflection of another movement class. Instructor must approve class make-up assignments. Attendance and participation. Students will demonstrate progress toward mastery in technical movement skills, knowledge and understanding of dance vocabulary. Learn to memorize and reproduce choreographed sequences and show proficiency in performing movement for artistic expression in jazz at the intermediate level. Video assessment followed by a written self-evaluation paper.