Dance (DNCE)

DNCE 1000 (2) Beginning Contemporary Technique

Introduces the dynamic capacity of dancing as a portal into sensing, feeling, expression, transformation, meaning-making, and community. Offers basic skills from contemporary dance forms drawing on diverse dance lineages. Develops connectivity, experimentation, strength, flexibility, coordination, rhythm, and spatial awareness. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. No experience necessary.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Nonmajor Technique

DNCE 1012 (3) Dance & Production: Technical Skills

Introduces foundational technical skills for working with lighting, sound, video, projection in our dance spaces and performance venues. In addition to practical hands-on learning, we explore how technical performance design can empower dance makers and designers. This course will support the production of a performance within the dance program season. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Production

DNCE 1013 (3) Dance & Navigating the Apocalypse: Improvising

Tactics for dance improvisation as a survival practice toward collective thriving within a precarious and changing world. Through questions, games, scores, and technical skills we devise spontaneous and reliable access to making, imagination, activism, physical/aesthetic range, empathy, and collective world-building. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 12.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Creative Process

DNCE 1017 (3) Dance and Popular Culture

Explores and contextualizes dance in contemporary popular culture. Introduces methods of critical analysis that reveal diverse lineages within the dances students commonly encounter at the club, on the street, on the screen, and elsewhere in everyday life. Through watching, reading, and convivial research, students deepen perceptions and meaning making. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Literature and the Arts
Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Dance and Cultural Studies

DNCE 1020 (2) Beginning Contemporary Technique with Experience

Invites embodied awareness, efficient athleticism, and artistry through contemporary dance. Dancing is a portal into sensing, feeling, expression, transformation, meaning-making, and community. Offers concepts and skills from contemporary dance forms drawing on diverse dance lineages. Develops dynamic dancing developed from foundational skills. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 4.00 total credit hours.
Recommended: Prerequisite DNCE 1000 or previous dance experience.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Nonmajor Technique

DNCE 1027 (3) Dance and Culture

Explores how dance can reflect, disrupt, subvert, support, and reinforce cultural expectations, norms, and practices. Introduces diverse dance traditions and provides context for an interdisciplinary examination from sociology, anthropology, gender studies, history, post-colonial studies, and more provide a foundation to understand how cultural identities are negotiated and represented through movement. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Additional Information: GT Pathways: GT-AH1 - Arts Hum: Arts Expression
Arts Sci Core Curr: Literature and the Arts
Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-Global Perspective
Departmental Category: Dance and Cultural Studies
Departmental Category: Asia Content

DNCE 1100 (2) Beginning Ballet Technique

Introduces fundamental aspects of ballet technique. Basic movement and principles are offered through dynamic alignment, spiral, movement quality, and more as building blocks for embodied dancing. Students work toward empowerment through simple sequences and rhythmic patterns. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. No experience necessary.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 4.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Nonmajor Technique

DNCE 1120 (2) Beginning Ballet Technique with Experience

Builds on a basic understanding of ballet through alignment, spiral, and movement quality to introduce more intellectually and physically challenging material. Students work toward empowerment through more complex sequences and rhythmic patterns. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. Beginning experience necessary.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 4.00 total credit hours.
Recommended: Prerequisite DNCE 1100 or previous Ballet experience.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Nonmajor Technique

DNCE 1200 (2) Beginning Jazz Technique

Introduces fundamental aspects of jazz dance including improvisation, isolations, polyrhythms from the African diaspora, and more. Working within a range of dynamic material, students will learn fundamental jazz vocabulary with a readiness to expand. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. No experience necessary.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 4.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Nonmajor Technique

DNCE 1220 (2) Beginning Jazz Technique with Experience

Engages the embodied investigation of jazz through the Africanist lineages of the form. Supports a rigorous awareness of efficient alignment while engaging with more complex movement and rhythmic structures. Dynamic material supports a readiness to expand. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. Beginning experience necessary.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 4.00 total credit hours.
Recommended: Prerequisite DNCE 1200 or previous Jazz experience.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Nonmajor Technique

DNCE 1301 (2) Beginning Hip-Hop Technique

Introduces Hip-Hop dance as a culturally significant dance form. Students learn history, the social and political forces, and the fundamental techniques (Campbell Locking, Popping, Breaking etiquette/movements, Hip-Hop Party Dance, and House) through the lens of critical race theory. Training addresses flexibility, sequencing, coordination, and performance. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. No experience necessary.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 4.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Technique

DNCE 1411 (2) Beginning Aerial Dance Technique

Introduces skills in aerial dance on single point, low-flying trapeze, choreographic techniques, improvisation, and a historical overview. Students engage in biomechanics, aesthetics, values, and safety issues. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. No experience necessary.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 4.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities

DNCE 1501 (2) Beginning Tap Technique

Introduces skills in tap technique to develop rhythm, quality, artistry, and clear tap sounds. Exercises focus on building flexibility, strength, connectivity, coordination, and speed of movement. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. No experience necessary.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 4.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Technique

DNCE 1901 (1-3) Technique Practicum

Experience with movement research and/or technical embodied practice within a specific dance form or in the spaces in-between dance forms through play, labor, rest, imagination, collaboration, compromise, and (insert your idea here). See subtopic for specifics. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Technique

DNCE 1908 (3) Dance & Resistance: Love & Failure

Offers foundational dance skills to reduce resistance to loving and failing. We engage pivotal movers, makers, activists, and thinkers to employ the generative friction of dance as a technology for transformation. Through dance we expand capacity for coalition-building, problem-solving, and artistry. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 12.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Performance

DNCE 2021 (3) Dance and Dancing: More Dancing

We will dance and dance some more. We will sweat, feel, connect, and think. In-depth, rigorous, current, and justice-oriented dance training occurs within a specific form. Technical skills are supported by context, histories, and potential futures of the form. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 3041 and DNCE 4061 and DNCE 5001
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 15.00 total credit hours.
Recommended: Prerequisite previous dance training and experience.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 2098 (1-3) Dance and Performance

An opportunity to research the relationship between dance, performance, making, feedback, magic, professionalism and the unknown through making a dance or participating in a dance-making process for a dance program production. Requires a high-level of investment and motivation, alongside participation in all rehearsals, showings, technical rehearsals, performances, and strike. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Performance

DNCE 2141 (1) Low Intermediate Ballet

Builds on an existing understanding of alignment, rotation, and movement quality to introduce more mentally and physically difficult movements and enchainements of the classical ballet vocabulary. Students must be able to demonstrate an embodied familiarity with all traditional barre exercises on the first day of class.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 2.00 total credit hours.
Recommended: Prerequisite DNCE 1120 or previous ballet experience.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Technique

DNCE 2191 (1) Ballet 2

Intermediate ballet, covering the complete vocabulary of classical ballet technique. Enchainements are of complex structure.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 2.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 2290 (1) Jazz 2

Continuation of Jazz 1. Studies coordination, rhythm, style, and advanced body part isolation in depth.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 2.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Nonmajor Technique

DNCE 2501 (2) African Dance

Explores technique, styles, and rhythms of regional and national cultures of Africa. Areas of concentration may vary each semester (e.g. Ghana, Mali, Guinea, etc.). Introduces signature attributes common to different countries' dance traditions and features discussions of musical traditions, histories, cosmologies, philosophies and aesthetics to contextualize and increase familiarity. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 8.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Technique

DNCE 2601 (3) Classical Dance Forms of India: Text, Theory, and Performance

Immerses students in classical Indian dance through practical workshops, gesture training, and exposure to live or recorded performances. Alongside hands-on practice, students explore cultural contexts and critically analyze foundational texts like Bharat Muni¿s N¿¿ya¿¿stra and Nandike¿vara¿s Abhinaya Darpana, complemented by film screenings. The curriculum covers historical, cultural, and performative aspects of major dance traditions, including Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Odissi, Kuchipudi, Kathakali, Manipuri, Mohiniyattam, and Sattriya, bridging theory and practice for a holistic understanding.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: HIND 2601

DNCE 2701 (3) Beginning Contact Improvisation Technique

Offers foundational experiences, skills, questions, and scores in Contact Improvisation through embodied research of physics, touch, power, identity, and potential. We will engage with the past, present, and futures of CI as a queer anti-racist high-risk dance technique, political practice, and collective action. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. No experience necessary.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 2849 (1-3) Independent Study

Involves creative or scholarly investigation of an area of interest to the student not addressed in the curriculum. Work must be arranged with and advised by a faculty member. Sophomore level course.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 7.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Independent Study

DNCE 2901 (1-3) Technique Practicum 2

Deepens capacity for movement research and/or technical embodied practice within a specific dance form or in the spaces in-between dance forms through play, labor, rest, imagination, collaboration, compromise, and (insert your idea here). See subtopic for specifics. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 2909 (1-4) Dance and Special Topics

Explores topics and research in and through dance such as technology, environment, performance, politics, martial arts, somatics, social and racial justice, criticism, and more that the normal sequence of course offerings may not allow. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 3909 and DNCE 4909 and DNCE 5909
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 12.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Independent Study

DNCE 3001 (2) Intermediate/Advanced Contemporary Dance Technique

Challenges experienced students to sweat while expanding capacity and artistry within contemporary dance. Insists on depth of embodied awareness, efficient athleticism, and experimentation. Dancing is a portal into sensing, feeling, expression, transformation, meaning-making, and community while drawing on diverse lineages. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Recommended: Prerequisite DNCE 1000 or DNCE 1020 or previous Contemporary dance experience.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Technique

DNCE 3005 (3) Dance and Injury Risk Reduction

Advances safe and effective dance and awareness practices supporting longevity and integrated wellness. Areas explored include experiential anatomy, conditioning, alignment, nutrition, injury risk reduction, care of common dance injuries, collaboration, and experience with various somatic practices. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. Formerly DNCE 2005.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Somatic Awareness

DNCE 3014 (3) Dance and Rhythm

Enhances rhythmic acuity through intensive rhythmic skills training, analytical listening, drumming, notating, and creating rhythm-based performance work. Course material explores non-Western rhythmic paradigms, irregular meters, mixed meters, polyrhythms, etc., and how to communicate clearly with musicians from a dance perspective. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 5014
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Music

DNCE 3024 (3) Dance and Sound Design

Examines how music and sound design profoundly affect makers, audiences, performers, and the creative process. Actively explores music creation, sound editing software, collaboration, ethics, and copyright issues. Surveys historic and contemporary music and sound and how to interact with it choreographically. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 5024
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Music

DNCE 3033 (3) Choreographic Resources

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. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Creative Process

DNCE 3035 (1) Dance and Production: Run Crew

Offers practical hands-on production experience for live performance. Students will work in a designated area of lighting design, stage technology, stagehand, or stage management. Meeting times and hours will be concentrated within the production schedule and will be determined in conversation with the instructor. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Production

DNCE 3041 (3) Dance and Dancing: More Dancing

We will dance and dance some more. We will sweat, feel, connect, and think. In-depth, rigorous, current, and justice-oriented dance training occurs within a specific form. Technical skills are supported by context, histories, and potential futures of the form. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 2021 and DNCE 4061 and DNCE 5001
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 15.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 3043 (3) Dance & Choreography

Builds foundational skills in making and unmaking experimental dances to become an artist. Research, showings, revising, feedback, context, and engaging in the unknown are central. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 12.00 total credit hours.
Recommended: Prerequisite DNCE 1013 or DNCE 1908.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Creative Process

DNCE 3161 (2) Intermediate Ballet Technique

Offers intermediate-level ballet material, focusing on a biomechanically sound and sensorially engaged orientation. Students must work sensorially and efficiently to execute techniques and artistry with rhythmic nuance, clarity of line, investment, and openness to the unknown. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 8.00 total credit hours.
Recommended: Prerequisite DNCE 1100, DNCE 1120, or previous Ballet experience.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Technique

DNCE 3301 (2) Advanced Hip-Hop

Builds on fundamentals established in Beginning Hip-Hop Technique. 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. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 5331
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Technique

DNCE 3601 (3) Dance & Queering: Embodiment Strategies

Queers assumptions about what a body is, might be, and can do through embodied practice/research. We re-train our reflexes toward positive-indebtedness and being softly hard-core. Being, moving, researching, and making will prepare more readiness (alone and together) for the best and the worst that life has to offer. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 5601
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 12.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Technique

DNCE 3849 (1-3) Independent Study

Involves creative or scholarly investigation of an area of interest to the student not addressed in the curriculum. Work must be arranged with and advised by a faculty member. Junior level course. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Independent Study

DNCE 3901 (1-3) Technique Practicum

Topical course (intermediate level) in dance technique. See subtopic for specific form. May require an audition.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Technique

DNCE 3909 (1-4) Dance & Special Topics

Explores topics and research in and through dance such as technology, environment, performance, politics, somatics, social and racial justice, criticism, and more that the normal sequence of course offerings may not allow. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 2909 and DNCE 4909 and DNCE 5909
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 12.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.

DNCE 4012 (3) Dance & Production: Experiments in Design

Expands on foundational technical skills and works toward complex artistic experimentation with lighting, sound, and video design elements. Provides practical experience in designing, producing, and collaborating for formal and informal live dance performances. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 5012
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 12.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 4016 (3) Dance & Teaching Children

Tactics for teaching creative movement to children emphasizing creativity, problem solving, organization, imagination, and community building. Embodied practice, readings, feedback, and teaching experience foster experimental learning. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 5016
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Pedagogy

DNCE 4017 (3) Dance & Dancing Histories

Traces American dance performance in the 20th and 21st century through lineages in diverse forms including the dances of the African diaspora, ballet, social dance, jazz, modern, contemporary, and folklorico. Studies specific dance artists against the backdrop of social, political, economic, and environmental issues through witnessing, reading, writing, convivial research, and more. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 5017
Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Literature and the Arts
Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Dance and Cultural Studies

DNCE 4023 (3) Dance & Survival

Dance-based tactics to make, play with, and adapt to the physical realities of structures: biological, architectural, and social. Experimental recipes for making art, activating spaces, executing rituals, and (insert your idea here) are developed. Convivial research, aesthetic kink, collaboration, and improvisation increase capacity for the unknown. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 5023
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 12.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Creative Process

DNCE 4027 (3) Dance & Real Fake AI Embodied Knowledge

Sliding between embracing and resisting technology, we simultaneously shake our assets, make art, and invent new analog tactics for interfacing with AI. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.

DNCE 4029 (3) Art & Sustainability

Engages students in the power of performance for effecting positive social change. Students research collaboratively to create performances and workshop experiences to intentionally author the future they want. Readings provide theoretical foundations that serve as the basis for creative work. Students engage in creative explorations. Open to all forms of performance. Formerly THTR 4029.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 5029
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Special Courses in Theatre

DNCE 4036 (3) Dance & Teaching

Offers anti-oppressive tactics for teaching dance as a liberatory practice. Imagining, planning, collaborating, responsiveness, time-management, and more build capacity toward teaching in communities, studios, schools, and (insert your idea here). Embodied practice, readings, feedback, and teaching experience foster experimental learning. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 5036
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Pedagogy

DNCE 4037 (3) Dance & Queering: Perspectives in Performance

Witness experimental dance and performance by diverse artists and learn how to unpack, expand, and articulate through and beyond aesthetics toward impact and potential. Imagine what dance can do and why it matters in the world. Students deepen capacity for queering, questioning, feeling, thinking, and responding through convivial research, making, and writing. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Literature and the Arts
Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Dance and Cultural Studies

DNCE 4038 (1-3) Dance & Performance

An opportunity to research the relationship between dance, performance, making, feedback, magic, professionalism and the unknown through making a dance or participating in a dance-making process for a dance program production. Requires a high-level of investment and motivation, alongside participation in all rehearsals, showings, technical rehearsals, performances, and strike. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 5038
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Performance

DNCE 4046 (1) Teaching Practicum

Designed to give students supervised practical teaching skills through practice teaching, discussion, observation (in-person and video), reflection and feedback. Students will develop age appropriate lesson plans, define and refine principles of classroom management and understand the needs of diverse groups of students in a community, academic (K-12) and/or studio setting. All genres of dance are topic relevant. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 3.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Pedagogy

DNCE 4047 (3) Dance & Hip-Hop History

Addresses the origin and evolution of American Hip-Hop dance rooted in theoretical structures springing from the elemental nature of the African Diaspora. Pioneers, innovators, terminology, and styles will be identified, emphasizing the social, political, and economic environment in which it was fashioned. Includes lectures, readings, audio/video analysis and discussion. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 5047
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-U.S. Perspective
Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Dance and Cultural Studies

DNCE 4053 (3) Dance & Making Dances

Explores dance as a medium of art making. Challenging assumptions about what choreography is and does, we unpack and burn that which limits our imaginations and keeps us regurgitating other people¿s ideas and moves. Then, we attempt to make dances that interest us, that solve/make problems, that tell a truth, or start a revolution. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 5053
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 12.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Recommended: Prerequisites DNCE 3043 or DNCE 1013.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Creative Process

DNCE 4061 (3) Dance & Dancing: More Dancing

We will dance and dance some more. We will sweat, feel, connect, and think. In-depth, rigorous, current, and justice-oriented dance training occurs within a specific form. Technical skills are supported by context, histories, and potential futures of the form. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 2021 and DNCE 3041 and DNCE 5001
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 15.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 4081 (3) Dance & Next Moves

Explores dance¿s intersection with post-graduation realities and possibilities. Colliding dance with culture, health, professional practices, entrepreneurship, identity, politics, economics, technology, systemic racism, embodied cognition, and (insert your ideas here), we build portfolios, protocols, and sustainable networks for moving. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. Formerly THTR 4081.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: History/Dramaturgy/Directing

DNCE 4181 (2) Advanced Ballet

Gives ¿classical ballet¿ trouble, upending often oppressive pedagogical histories to love ballet and let ballet love you. We sweat toward liberation through facile alignment, rhythmic accuracy, clarity of line, épaulement, and community, as we unpack context and histories. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Technique

DNCE 4261 (2) Advanced Jazz Technique

Advanced embodied research of jazz through diverse lineages of the form that will make you sweat. Demands a rigorous awareness of efficient alignment while engaging with complex movement and rhythmic structures. Dynamic material supports a readiness to expand. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 5261
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Technique

DNCE 4701 (2) Advanced Contact Improvisation

Offers depth of practice in Contact Improvisation through nuanced, complex, and thought-provoking lenses. We breathe and sweat with the past, present, and futures of CI as a queer anti-racist high-risk dance technique, political practice, and collective action. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 5701
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 4849 (1-3) Independent Study

Involves creative or scholarly investigation of an area of interest to the student not addressed in the curriculum. Work must be arranged with and advised by a faculty member. Senior level course. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Independent Study

DNCE 4909 (1-4) Dance and Special Topics

Explores topics and research in and through dance such as technology, environment, performance, politics, martial arts, somatics, social and racial justice, criticism, and more that the normal sequence of course offerings may not allow. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 2909 and DNCE 3909 and DNCE 5909
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 12.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Independent Study

DNCE 4919 (1-3) Dance Practicum

Project in dance under supervision of senior faculty.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 5919
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Independent Study

DNCE 4939 (1-3) Dance & Community Practice

Offers an opportunity to go do something real in the community with dance. This student driven internship is supported by faculty mentorship in collaboration with an established arts or teaching organization. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Independent Study

DNCE 5001 (3) Dance & Dancing: More Dancing

We will dance and dance some more. We will sweat, feel, connect, and think. In-depth, rigorous, current, and justice-oriented dance training occurs within a specific form. Technical skills are supported by context, histories, and potential futures of the form. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 2021 and DNCE 3041 and DNCE 4061
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 15.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 5012 (3) Dance & Production: Experiments in Design

Expands on foundational technical skills and works toward complex artistic experimentation with lighting, sound, and video design elements. Provides practical experience in designing, producing, and collaborating for formal and informal live dance performances. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 4012
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 12.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Production

DNCE 5013 (2) Beginning Contact Improvisation Technique

Offers foundational experiences, skills, questions, and scores in Contact Improvisation through embodied research of physics, touch, power, identity, and potential. We will engage with the past, present, and futures of CI as a queer anti-racist high-risk dance technique, political practice, and collective action. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. No experience necessary.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

DNCE 5014 (3) Dance & Rhythm

Enhances rhythmic acuity through intensive rhythmic skills training, analytical listening, drumming, notating, and creating rhythm-based performance work. Course material explores non-Western rhythmic paradigms, irregular meters, mixed meters, polyrhythms, etc., and how to communicate clearly with musicians from a dance perspective. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 3014
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Music

DNCE 5016 (3) Dance & Teaching Children

Tactics for teaching creative movement to children emphasizing creativity, problem solving, organization, imagination, and community building. Embodied practice, readings, feedback, and teaching experience foster experimental learning. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 4016
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Pedagogy

DNCE 5017 (3) Dance & Dancing Histories

Traces American dance performance in the 20th and 21st century through lineages in diverse forms including the dances of the African diaspora, ballet, social dance, jazz, modern, contemporary, and folklorico. Studies specific dance artists against the backdrop of social, political, economic, and environmental issues through witnessing, reading, writing, convivial research, and more. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 4017
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Dance and Cultural Studies

DNCE 5023 (3) Dance & Survival

Dance-based tactics to make, play with, and adapt to the physical realities of structures: biological, architectural, and social. Experimental recipes for making art, activating spaces, executing rituals, and (insert your idea here) are developed. Convivial research, aesthetic kink, collaboration, and improvisation increase capacity for the unknown. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 4023
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 12.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Creative Process

DNCE 5024 (3) Dance & Sound Design

Examines how music and sound design profoundly affect makers, audiences, performers, and the creative process. Actively explores music creation, sound editing software, collaboration, ethics, and copyright issues. Surveys historic and contemporary music and sound and how to interact with it choreographically. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 3024
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Music

DNCE 5029 (3) Art & Sustainability

Engages students in the power of performance for effecting positive social change. Students research collaboratively to create performances and workshop experiences to intentionally author the future they want. Readings provide theoretical foundations that serve as the basis for creative work. Students engage in creative explorations. Open to all forms of performance. Formerly DNCE 5048.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 4029
Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Performance

DNCE 5036 (3) Dance & Teaching

Offers anti-oppressive tactics for teaching dance as a liberatory practice. Imagining, planning, collaborating, responsiveness, time-management, and more build capacity toward teaching in communities, studios, schools, and (insert your idea here). Embodied practice, readings, feedback, and teaching experience foster experimental learning. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 4036
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Pedagogy

DNCE 5038 (1-3) Dance & Performance

An opportunity to research the relationship between dance, performance, making, feedback, magic, professionalism and the unknown through making a dance or participating in a dance-making process for a dance program production. Requires a high-level of investment and motivation, alongside participation in all rehearsals, showings, technical rehearsals, performances, and strike. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 4038
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Performance

DNCE 5047 (3) Dance & Hip-Hop Dance History

Addresses the origin and evolution of American Hip-Hop dance rooted in theoretical structures springing from the elemental nature of the African Diaspora. Pioneers, innovators, terminology, and styles will be identified, emphasizing the social, political, and economic environment in which it was fashioned. Includes lectures, readings, audio/video analysis and discussion. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 4047
Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Dance and Cultural Studies

DNCE 5053 (3) Dance & Making Dances

Explores dance as a medium of art making. Challenging assumptions about what choreography is and does, we unpack and burn that which limits our imaginations and keeps us regurgitating other people¿s ideas and moves. Then, we attempt to make dances that interest us, that solve/make problems, that tell a truth, or start a revolution. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 4053
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 12.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Creative Process

DNCE 5056 (2) Graduate Teaching Seminar

Examines practical, pedagogical, philosophical, and legal issues in current dance education. The goals and content of professional and recreational dance training are considered and strategies for effective teaching practice are discussed. Provides practice in practical application of theoretical material. All genres of dance may be utilized. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Pedagogy

DNCE 5064 (2) Music and Dance Seminar: Collaboration

Investigates music in relation to dance performance, choreography, and teaching. Topics may include: a survey of musical styles and composers; direct experimentation with composition and recording techniques; enhancement of rhythmic versatility; work with accompanist/composers; and/or improvement of analytical listening and writing skills.

Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Music

DNCE 5101 (2) Intermediate Graduate Ballet

Offers intermediate-level ballet material, focusing on a biomechanically sound and sensorially engaged orientation. Students must work sensorially and efficiently to execute techniques and artistry with rhythmic nuance, clarity of line, investment, and openness to the unknown. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 5261 (2) Advanced Jazz Technique

Advanced embodied research of jazz through diverse lineages of the form that will make you sweat. Demands a rigorous awareness of efficient alignment while engaging with complex movement and rhythmic structures. Dynamic material supports a readiness to expand. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 4261
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 5301 (2) Graduate Beginning Hip-Hop Technique

Introduces Hip-Hop dance as a culturally significant dance form. Students learn history, the social and political forces, and the fundamental techniques (Campbell Locking, Popping, Breaking etiquette/movements, Hip-Hop Party Dance, and House) through the lens of critical race theory. Training addresses flexibility, sequencing, coordination, and performance. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. No experience necessary.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 4.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 5331 (2) Graduate Advanced Hip-Hop Technique

Students deepen their understanding of Hi-Hop history through fundamental movement techniques, specifically, House, and study the social/political forces at work. Focuses on increasing dancers' capacity for variation, sequencing, musicality and free-styling in Hip-Hop dance. Enrollment by audition only.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 3301
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

DNCE 5339 (1-3) Hip-hop Practicum

Design and implement an experiential, action¿based learning project that connects to local innovators in the Boulder/Denver Hip-hop community who are engaged in one of Hip-hop culture¿s five elements: mcing, djing, breaking/street dance, graffiti, knowledge. Projects might range from creating a piece of graffiti with a local crew to organizing an academic panel or workshop with a Hip-hop pioneer.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 3.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

DNCE 5411 (2) Aerial Dance Technique

Introduces skills in aerial dance on single point, low-flying trapeze, choreographic techniques, improvisation, and a historical overview. Students engage in biomechanics, aesthetics, values, and safety issues. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. No experience necessary.

Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

DNCE 5501 (2) Graduate African Dance

Explores technique, styles, and rhythms of regional and national cultures of Africa. Areas of concentration may vary each semester (e.g. Ghana, Mali, Guinea, etc.). Introduces signature attributes common to different countries' dance traditions and features discussions of musical traditions, histories, cosmologies, philosophies and aesthetics to contextualize and increase familiarity. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 5601 (3) Dance & Queering: Embodiment Strategies

Queers assumptions about what a body is, might be, and can do through embodied practice/research. We re-train our reflexes toward positive-indebtedness and being softly hard-core. Being, moving, researching, and making will prepare more readiness (alone and together) for the best and the worst that life has to offer. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 3601
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 12.00 total credit hours.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 5701 (2) Advanced Contact Improvisation

Offers depth of practice in Contact Improvisation through nuanced, complex, and thought-provoking lenses. We breathe and sweat with the past, present, and futures of CI as a queer anti-racist high-risk dance technique, political practice, and collective action. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 4701
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 5849 (1-3) Independent Study

Involves creative or scholarly investigation of an area of interest to the student not addressed in the curriculum. Work must be arranged with and advised by a faculty member.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 7.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Independent Study

DNCE 5901 (1-3) Graduate Technique Practicum

Offers special courses in the technique series. Course may meet at the same time with an undergraduate studio course and includes the practical movement experience with an additional scholarly study of specially chosen issues in dance.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 5909 (1-4) Dance and Special Topics

Explores topics and research in and through dance such as technology, environment, performance, politics, martial arts, somatics, social and racial justice, criticism, and more that the normal sequence of course offerings may not allow. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 2909 and and DNCE 3909 and DNCE 4909
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 12.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Independent Study

DNCE 5919 (1-3) Dance Practicum

Project in dance under supervision of senior faculty.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: DNCE 4919
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Independent Study

DNCE 6047 (3) Dance Studies

Studies current dance trends, mostly in the United States, with particular attention paid to dance's intersection with philosophy, theory, technology, politics, current events and the other arts.

Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Dance and Cultural Studies

DNCE 6049 (3) Seminar in Dance

Intensive study of selected topics related to the artof dance, dance criticism, dance aesthetics, and dance in relationship to historical, social, and culturalenvironments with an emphasis on contemporary American forms and their roots. Restricted to graduate students in dance.

Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade

DNCE 6056 (2) Professional Development

Examines current trends and issues in dance education and the professional dance world. Explores curriculum development, administration, and job opportunities along with other topics such as grant writing, community engagement, dance advocacy, and working as an independent artist.

Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Pedagogy

DNCE 6073 (3) Choreography

Covers in-depth practical and theoretical approaches to dance composition for graduate students; solo and group forms; and analysis of historical and contemporary dance works.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Creative Process

DNCE 6101 (2) Advanced Graduate Ballet

Gives ¿classical ballet¿ trouble, upending often oppressive pedagogical histories to love ballet and let ballet love you. We sweat toward liberation through facile alignment, rhythmic accuracy, clarity of line, épaulement, and community, as we unpack context and histories. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Major Technique

DNCE 6849 (1-3) Independent Study

Involves creative or scholarly investigation of an area of interest to the student not addressed in the curriculum. Work must be arranged with and advised by a faculty member.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 7.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Independent Study

DNCE 6919 (1-3) Directed Studies

Explores advanced topics in dance not regularly covered in the curriculum of the graduate program.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Independent Study

DNCE 6949 (1) Master's Candidate for Degree

Registration intended for students preparing for a thesis defense, final examination, culminating activity, or completion of degree.

Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Independent Study

DNCE 6959 (1-6) Master's Thesis

Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Independent Study

DNCE 6969 (1-6) The Graduate Project

Provides the opportunity for synthesizing the graduate experience through the execution of a project related to the student's major area of interest. Project must be approved by the graduate faculty advisor.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Additional Information: Departmental Category: Independent Study