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This class is a revolving master-class series that brings a wide range of mostly dance artists to the SUNY Fredonia campus. This experience offers students the opportunity to work with professionals, academics, scholars, teachers, and choreographers outside of the Department's regular faculty. The class offers an opportunity for students to experience other dance/field/art forms that are not offered as part of the formal curriculum. The class is a chance for students to ask questions about being a professional in the field and create exhilarating discussions around dance and art making.

This course is a continuation of DANC 211-Contemporary II that explores the technique and the theories of Contemporary Dance at the 300 level. Emphasis is placed on advanced modern, postmodern, and contemporary dance techniques and the application of movement principles essential to the training to make a professional dancer. In this course, different styles of contemporary dance will be presented with an emphasis on improving anatomical awareness and alignment, developing integrated movement patterns and internal connections, rhythmic awareness and using dance as a form of expression. In this class students will observe dance on video and performance, read and write, from a scholarly perspective, about Contemporary Dance as well as discuss the genres and styles of individual ideals relating to the overall form.

This course is a continuation of the classical/contemporary ballet technique offered in DANC 212 - Ballet II at the 300 level with continued attention to biomechanical principles of ballet, proper execution, and mastery of the classical/contemporary movement repertoire, and the application of movement principles essential to the training to make a professional dancer. In addition, students will broaden their learning about classical/contemporary ballet issues through assigned readings and through written work.

This course is a continuation of the content of DANC 213, Jazz II at the 300 level through movement and academic study. Class work examines what elements of jazz dance situate it outside the paradigms of ballet and modern/contemporary's value systems of form, function, musicality, and technique, and examines how African and Black Diasporic roots of jazz dance make it a distinct form, worthy of study without being qualified from a colonist perspective. Class covers the fundamental elements of the Africanist and Black Diasporic roots and movement aesthetics of multiple jazz dance styles. Coursework will also incorporate the theory and pedagogy of Jazz Dance through readings, written assignments, and in-class and online discussions. All coursework is designed to improve a dance student's jazz technique, movement skills, understanding of musicality, theory, and history through participation and academic study, and the application of movement principles essential to the training to make a professional dancer.

DANC 341 is a class reserved for a variety of dance-related topics outside the regular course offerings of the Department of Theatre and Dance. It accommodates special and diverse topics otherwise not available through the dance program.

The objective of this course is to teach students to investigate what forces shaped who is celebrated and included, and who is marginalized or excluded in dance history. Coursework will engage students with material viewed through the multiple frameworks of how race, ethnicity, class, religion, cultural belief systems, gender, sexuality, and politics intersect to shape, develop, and evolve dance history. Students will learn how to learn and how to write & speak about dance through in-class participation, written work, watching/analyzing dance on video, and in-class and online discussion of dance as an art form that goes beyond steps. Written assignments, classroom and verbal and online discussions are required. All coursework is designed to develop student's critical thinking capabilities to understand and articulate the fluid complexities of dance history through critical thinking, writing, verbalization, and research.

This lecture course will cover the foundations of dancer wellness, including mental, physical wellness, and assessment methods for overall dancer health. All coursework is designed to improve a dance student's mental and physical wellness, and ability to assess and implement holistic living through participation and academic study. Written assignments, online discussions, and daily participation (verbal & written) are required.

This course builds upon the elements of the craft of choreography: space, time, effort/force and motivation from DANC 264 - Choreography I. The concepts learned can be applied to any genre of dance when choreographing. Movement invention will be approached through improvisation, movement studies, readings, performance viewings, video viewings and written assignments. An emphasis will be placed upon discovering your own unique expressive movement vocabulary and deepening your powers of observation of self, others and the world around you. Dancers will learn how to investigate movement and to probe and manipulate movement materials. Concepts will be explored as group dance composition. In preparing for a final composition showing, dancers will investigate issues that are important and use their findings to create a final work, a group work, either set on peers from class or people from outside the class. Dancers will leave this class with different methods of how to generate movement for themselves, and how to describe their movement using language to others.

A course in Dance Studio Management will provide the student with a road map for the annual cycle of a dance studio as a sole proprietorship and other aspects of a community-oriented enterprise. The focus will be on the administrative portion of the operation as opposed to the artistic side. Etiquette, communication skills, procedures, financial and legal aspects of the dance studio business will be discussed in detail. Other applications such as drafting a business plan, developing policies, creating a competitive website, market research, completing tax forms and other hands-on exercises will be put into practice. The skills acquired in this course can be applied to other performing arts ventures. DANC 370 provides the student with transferable skills which reflect the University's mission to enrich the world through scholarship, artistic expression, community engagement, and entrepreneurship. This course is not recommended for first-year students.

This lecture/movement lab practicum will focus on the fundamentals of teaching studio dance forms to age K-12. All coursework is designed to introduce students to teaching strategies which address the psychological, physical, and cognitive aspects of dance instruction. Practical instruction in multiple studio dance forms, academic investigation of theories of learning, and presentation of teaching methodologies are required.

This course will explore the unique challenges of capturing and creating dance for camera. Through class screenings of film and video work, class exercises, reading and discussion, students will learn about various historical and contemporary issues and approaches in combining dance and the moving image. Students will work alone and in small collaborative groups to create their own works integrating dance and video. At the end of the course, students should be able to articulate meaning in dance on film or video, discuss, analyze, and critique both student projects and professional dance screen works. Through creative projects, students will develop their own visual style and an increased proficiency with digital video cameras and editing. The Department of Theatre and Dance and the Department of Communication will not support technical requests for any of the video projects in the form of studio/performance space, props, costumes, scenery or lighting, or equipment.

This course will build upon the editing and camera skills, and creative research acquired in 387 Screendance I, (prerequisite), this course challenges the student to propose three projects ranging from work for the screen, work for gallery or installation, and work from integration into live performance. In collaboration with a faculty advisor and chosen venue, the student will then select one proposed project for completion and final production. Student(s) will be strongly encouraged to submit work(s) to festivals and/or present finished work(s) to audiences in innovative formats. The Department of Theatre and Dance and the Department of Communication will not support technical requests for any of the video projects in the form of studio/performance space, props, costumes, scenery or lighting, or equipment.