This course introduces the skills required to transition from in-class dance technique to stage performance of repertory. Dance choreography will be learned for audience presentation in a theatrical or classroom environment.
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.
Theory and practice of the principles of beginning ballet technique that include alignment, placement, turnout, positions of the feet, carriage of the arms, and basic ballet vocabulary. Focus is on the application of these principles to barre exercises and center practice.
Advanced Beginning Ballet is a continuation of beginning ballet technique with an emphasis on building vocabulary and integrating connecting and traveling steps into combinations.
Beginning Hip Hop dance with emphasis on technique, vocabulary, dance combinations and basic rhythms of hip hop dance.
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.
Focus on multi-zone targeting conditioning techniques that relate to the dance idiom. Emphasis goes beyond the basics of Pilates principles that build abdominal and back strength. Exercises include various approaches that combine body alignment, core strength, flexibility techniques, floor barre, weight training and stability exercises.
Focus on multi-zone targeting conditioning techniques that relate to the dance idiom. Emphasis on beyond the basics of Pilates principles that build abdominal and back strength. Exercises include various approaches that combine body alignment, core strength, flexibility techniques, floor barre, weight training and stability exercises.
Focus on multi-zone targeting conditioning techniques that relate to the dance idiom. Emphasis goes beyond the basics of Pilates principles that build abdominal and back strength. Exercises include various approaches that combine body alignment, core strength, flexibility techniques, floor barre, weight training and stability exercises.