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Rigorous daily practice that will challenge and expand students¿ understanding of and perspective on the art form. Focus on strengthening technique, exploring ballet as an expressive form and performing art, and developing an artistic voice.

Interested in putting your hands in the clay? In this hands-on course, dancers will investigate and re-choreograph some of Robert Moses' signature works. Robert and long-term dancers in his company, Robert Moses' Kin, will collaboratively guide students in intensive studio sessions as they revisit the significant issues, techniques, and directions in such seminal works as Word of Mouth, The Soft Sweet Smell of Firm Warm Things, and Helen. Elements used to create the works will be re-investigated and re-framed through the lens of the students' experience and perspective. Students will coordinate a showcase of excerpts of their remolded choreography.nnnThis class will utilize the language of Robert Moses' repertory to train dancers in the basics of Moses' movement vocabulary. Students will improve and reinforce technical proficiency, artistic range, and performance skills. In addition, students will expand their movement range and vocabulary in a manner that demonstrates an increase in strength, agility, flexibility, and endurance through classical ballet and contemporary modern dance techniques.

Hollis Brown, New Shows: students in this course will work collaboratively to create a new artistic work. Emphasis will be placed on dance's relationship to dialogue and music. This course will provide students with a basic understanding of the development, creation and staging of original performance pieces. The final performance of the new work will be during the final class period with a additional performance in the Bing Concert Hall Rehearsal Studio.

Students from diverse dance styles (ballet to hip-hop to contemporary) participate in the dance-making/remix process and collaborate with musicians, visual artists, designers and spoken word artists, culminating a multidisciplinary fully produced production and installation.

Introductory ballet class open to all levels of beginners and focusing on the discovery and appreciation of ballet as a body-based knowledge and artistic practice. Structured studio lessons cover the basics of ballet technique including posture, the foundation steps, and ballet terms with an emphasis on the development of coordination, balance, strength, flexibility, sense of line, and sensitivity to rhythm and music. Discussions, video screenings, occasional reading and field trips reference the unfolding of the art form, its technique and aesthetic. Course may be repeated for credit.

Dances of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico. May be repeated for credit.

Students learn fundamentals of contemporary dance, using modern technique, yoga and tai chi, focused on organic, successive movement and the continuum within everyday motions to studio dance practice. Basic compositional skills explored, culminating in end of quarter showing.

By learning various dance improvisation forms across cultures, students will develop techniques to gain a deep understanding of generating movement from the inside-out, harnessing that potential for creating dances. Guest dancer/choreographer workshops and Dance Jams enhance the learning experience.

Introduction to the partner dances found in American popular culture: waltz, swing, tango, club two step, cha cha, merengue, and salsa. May be repeated for credit. (AU)