Examines how musical choices can profoundly affect audiences, dancers, and the creative process. Surveys historic and contemporary music styles and influential artists through guided listening and experimentation. Deepens understanding of music, including vocabulary, technology, collaboration skills, ethics, and copyright issues. Department consent required for dance minors Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE or DBFA, excludes DNCE-MIN) majors only.
Introduces 20th century international drama. Discusses selected plays by major African, Asian, and European authors and explores different dramatic traditions and their increasing interactions throughout the 20th century.
Explores movement invention and strategies of choreographic manipulation of body, space and time. Students add to their toolbox of compositional resources through solo and duet studies. Class interrogates and supports the students' developing language for addressing, critiquing and comprehending compositional choices and structures through verbal and written feedback practice. Can be taken out of sequence with DNCE 3043. Formerly DNCE 2033. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of DNCE 1013 and DNCE 2021 or DNCE 3041 or DNCE 4061 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Dance (DNCE or DBFA, excludes DNCE-MIN) majors only.
Allows students to undertake an acting project, either within the major season or approved departmental production. Requires detailed preparational research, rehearsal commitments, and public presentation of theories and concepts in practice. Following the performance, students present written reports and evaluations. May be repeated up to 3 total credit hours.
Practical production activities and projects within a designated area of dance design, stage technology, or stage management, normally related to the department's season. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Instructor consent required.
Practical production projects within a designated area of technical theatre, design, stage management, normally related to the department's season. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of THTR 1105 and THTR 1115 (all minimum grade C-).
Students are assigned to work with production artisans of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. While there are many possible areas, production designs for each season determine the number of available positions. May substitute for two credits of THTR 3035. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of THTR 1105 and THTR 1115 (all minimum grade C-).
Examines physical and spatial relationships via group and site specific work. New methods of creative problem solving unearth and mine one's imagination and inspiration, cultivating the individual's unique process of dance-making. Class interrogates and supports students' developing language for addressing, critiquing and comprehending compositional choices and structures through verbal and written feedback practice. Can be taken out of sequence with DNCE 3033. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of DNCE 1013 and DNCE 2021 or DNCE 3041 or DNCE 4061 (all minimum grade C-).Restricted to Dance (DNCE or DBFA, excludes DNCE-MIN) majors only.
Continues the work begun in THTR 2043. Studies advanced vocal techniques with the goal of integrating these skills into the working process of the performing artist. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of THTR 2043 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Theatre (THTR or TBFA) majors only.
Covers stage management from the inception of a production concept through the process of mounting aproduction, focusing on the interrelationships of the various artists involved, management and scheduling of time, and the psychology of handling a wide range of personalities. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of THTR 1105 (minimum grade C-).
Continuation of the techniques introduced in the beginning acting course (THTR 1003). Emphasis is placed on monologues and scene study of contemporary plays. Basic techniques in developing a character are explored. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of THTR 1003 (minimum grade C-).
Introduces the craft of stage lighting design through experimental lighting labs, lecture/demos, hands-on production experience, and theoretical projects. Subject matter includes aesthetics of light, colortheory, lighting for performance, design graphics, and basic lighting technology. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of THTR 1105 (minimum grade C-).
Study and application of the principles of sound technology and design, emphasizing concepts of electricity, acoustics, equipment, and their application to the stage. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of THTR 1105 (minimum grade C-).
Surveys topics in western dress from ancient civilizations to contemporary time: the garments, accessories, materials, and technologies of personal adornment in the context of philosophical, political, social, and technological change. Priority given to majors. Replaces THTR 2085.
Practical studio training in ballet at the advanced/professional level with a professional company. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours. Designed for dance majors. Enrollment by audition only. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of DNCE 2141 or DNCE 3161 or DNCE 4181 (minimum grade C-).
Explores and identifies a wide range of professional opportunities connected to personal strengths and interests in theatre and dance by studying current professional practices, trends and cross-disciplinary connections. Instructor will: provide information/learning needed from representative professionals; open avenues to find/create employment opportunities towards internship consideration/post-graduation; and mentor structured self-assessment/professional development. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Theatre (THTR or TBFA) or Dance (DNCE or DBFA) majors (excluding minors).
Surveys a wide range of the intermediate-level classical ballet vocabulary, focusing on an anatomically sound approach to the material. Students must work efficiently to execute the technique with rhythmic accuracy, clarity of line, propriety of style, and fluency in translating names of steps. Enrollment by audition only. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours.
Expands student's performance of the syncopated movement style of the jazz vernacular. Designed for the experienced jazz dancer. Includes dance techniques that further improves alignment, strength, flexibility, and coordination within the jazz idiom through an emphasis on style, rhythm, and more challenging dance combinations. May be repeated up to 2 credit hours. Recommended prereq., DNCE 1220 or previous dance experience.
Builds on fundamentals established in Hip-Hop Dance Technique 1. Students deepen their understanding of Hip-Hop history through fundamental movement techniques, specifically, House, and study the social/political forces at work. The course focuses on increasing dancers' capacity for variation, sequencing, musicality and free-styling in Hip-Hop dance. Enrollment by audition only. Repeatable for credit up to 4 total credit hours.
Studies how human reaction, coordination, and movement play a role in all activities. Through in-depth class discussions, movement, exploration, and individualized hands-on lessons, actors and dancers gain an understanding of the technique and its benefits to performance. Meets with DNCE 5601. Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE or DBFA, excludes DNCE-MIN) or Theatre (THTR or TBFA, excludes THTR-MIN) majors only.
Designed for dance majors. Encompasses range of dance forms that require multiple accompanists. Enrollment by audition only. May be repeated up to 16 total credit hours.
Topical course (intermediate level) in dance technique. See subtopic for specific form. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. May require an audition.
