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Fall 2017  |  DNCE 1401 Section 001: Introduction to Dance (14476)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option No Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Wed 10:10AM - 11:40AM
UMTC, West Bank
Barbara Barker Ctr for Dance 300
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Mon 10:10AM - 11:40AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 135
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Course Catalog Description:
What is dance? How does movement create meaning? Dance as action and framework for analysis of moving bodies. Movement politics of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation through reading, writing, moving, and watching dance performances. Discussion. Dance experience not required.
Class Description:
What is dance? Where do we engage with dance today? Can dance "do" things? How does dance create social meaning? How can we write about dance? In this course, we will ask these questions while considering dance as a framework for the analysis of moving bodies. We will develop ways of interpreting and articulating dance through reading, writing, moving, and watching dance. Throughout, we will focus on the movement politics of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation and the transnational circulation of various dance genres. This is both a seminar and a movement course. Come prepared to read, write, move, and discuss dance. You do not need to have prior dance experience to succeed in this course.
Grading:
20% Midterm Exam
20% Reports/Papers
20% Additional Semester Exams
10% Class Participation
30% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: Other: Dance-making is 15%; Group Performance is 15%
Exam Format:
Short answer and Multiple Choice
Class Format:
20% Lecture
5% Film/Video
10% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
6% Student Presentations
5% Field Trips
40% Studio
4% Guest Speakers
Workload:
10 Pages Reading Per Week
8 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
1 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
6 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14476/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
24 January 2013

Fall 2017  |  DNCE 1401 Section 002: Introduction to Dance (16947)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option No Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Wed 06:30PM - 09:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Barbara Barker Ctr for Dance 301
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
What is dance? How does movement create meaning? Dance as action and framework for analysis of moving bodies. Movement politics of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation through reading, writing, moving, and watching dance performances. Discussion. Dance experience not required.
Class Description:
This newly redesigned course is an introduction to global dance forms in society and art. It covers dance forms and significant issues in dance through lecture, discussion, viewing of live and taped performances and movement experiences. The course presents international perspectives on how dance functions in specific cultural contexts and how dance traditions influence each other as cultures come into close contact with one another. The course begins looking at a selection of dance forms from around the world and will end by exploring how these forms come into the United States contributing to creation of the fusion forms that make up American dance. A main objective is for students to develop the aesthetic, cultural and historical awareness needed to form and articulate, verbally and in writing, ideas and opinions about the art of dance. The course will examine a broad-range of dance traditions including: West African, Middle Eastern, South Indian, Japanese dance theater, European folk dance, ballet, Brazilian, North American Plains Indian, and American forms: tap, jazz, hip hop, modern dance and musical theater. By the end of the course students will be able to recognize a variety of dance traditions and connect their historical development to the specific social, artistic and political currents of their culture.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16947/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
8 April 2009

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