Courses

Explores and contextualizes contemporary popular culture and dance. Introduces methods of critical analysis that reveal the rich heritage hidden within and around the dances students commonly encounter at the club, on the street, on television, on the big screen and elsewhere in everyday life. Through watching, reading, and discussion, students discover new meaning in their lived cultural experience. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.

Explores dance's relationship to broad cultural realities such as food getting, sexuality, rites of passage, work, and religion. Topics are explored by looking at several different cultural groups and how their dance functions in relation to the specific topic. (For example, dance as a function of religion could be studied through explorations into Afro-Cuban orisha dances, Bharata Natyam, and Hopi Ghost dancing.) Formerly DNCE 1029. Approved for GT-AH1. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.

Follows the specific history and narrative of some dance forms (including African, Ballet, Flamenco, Hip Hop, Jazz, and Modern) and traces their development over time. Gives attention to the effect of social, political, economic, and environmental conditions as well as the influence of other dance forms and the impact of specific dance artists and teachers. Restricted to juniors and seniors. Same as DNCE 5017. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

Focuses on the development of perceptual, descriptive, and analytical skills as well as the ability to apply cultural and critical theory to 20th and 21st century concert dance. Specific pieces of choreography are looked at from a broad range of perspectives. Formerly DNCE 3027. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

Restricted to graduate students. Same as DNCE 4017 with addition of graduate papers and/or a project. Prerequisites: Restricted to Dance graduate students only.

Surveys dance literature including an opportunity for graduate students to familiarize themselves with resources, current publications, theoretical materials, and professional organizations in dance. Restricted to graduate students in dance. Formerly DNCE 6019. Prerequisites: Restricted to Dance graduate students only.

Intensive study of selected topics related to the art of dance, dance criticism, dance aesthetics, and dance in relationship to historical, social, and cultural environments with an emphasis on contemporary American forms and their roots. Restricted to graduate students in dance.