Beginning Hip Hop dance with emphasis on technique, vocabulary, dance
combinations and basic rhythms of hip hop dance.

Beginning Hip Hop dance with emphasis on technique, vocabulary, dance
combinations and basic rhythms of hip hop dance.

Advanced Intermediate Tap Dance refines intermediate tap dance skills and explores improvisation and choreography through demonstration and practice. Focus is on tap history and its relationship to jazz music which provide guidelines for tap improvisation and choreography.

Intermediate Tap Dance reviews the historical relationship of tap dance to jazz music and builds upon skills learned in advanced beginning tap with emphasis on more refined musicality and acquisition of intermediate level tap vocabulary and technique.

Advanced Beginning Tap Dance further examines the history of tap and builds upon
skills learned in beginning tap with emphasis on refining technique, increasing
vocabulary, precise footwork and rhythmic accuracy in more complex combinations.

Beginning Tap Dance briefly reviews the history of tap and lays the foundation for
acquisition of tap dance skills. Emphasis will be on demonstration and practice of
fundamental tap technique and vocabulary in rhythmic drills and dance phrases.

Intermediate African Haitian dance builds on advanced beginning level skills. Through demonstration,
practice, correction, and review, emphasis is placed on expansion into more intricate traditional
movements, Dunham technique, dance patterns, styles, and musicality. Historical and cultural
elements will be explored through lectures, films, research, and discussions. Creative expression
will be encouraged through group choreographic activities and individual projects.

Advanced beginning African Haitian Dance is a continuation of beginning African Haitian with an emphasis on building vocabulary on traditional movements and integrating isolations and movement progressions in connection to dance patterns and correct musicality.

Beginning African-Haitian dance will be examined through technical demonstration and practice. Emphasis will be placed on traditional movements, isolations, movement progressions, dance patterns, and musicality. Dance pioneers and their contribution to African-Haitian dance will be discussed.

Introduction to Dance Theater introduces the technical and choreographic style of dance performed in Musical Theater productions. This course is designed to adapt dance to various styles of musical theater accompaniment and explore how dance can non-verbally support the story-telling of plays and musicals.