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DANC 312

Special Topics in Dance Technique

Dance

Course Title

Special Topics in Dance Technique

Status

Active

Subject code

DANC

Course Number

312

Course Long Title

Special Topics in Dance Technique

Department(s)

Description

Offered as-needed. Representative topics may include a range of non-traditional dance forms and practices: Improvisation, Release Technique, Flying Low, Breaking, Fusion, Physical Theatre, Viewpoints, Suzuki, or other contemporary movement techniques..

Extended Description

DANC 312: Special Topics–Dances of the African Diaspora

Fall 2023

Instructor: Kevin LaMarr Jones


Dances of the African Diaspora include a wide range of global, cultural dance and musical forms created and developed by the descendants of indigenous African people groups who left or were taken from the continent, in particular, as a result of the trans-Atlantic human trafficking and enslavement of the Colonial period. The course will teach dance and musical forms from the African Diaspora through in-class, studio instruction and participation, demonstrations, and multimedia, revealing the distinctions of global African dance traditions as well as their commonalities as leading cultural identities within countries of the Americas, the Caribbean and the Iberian Peninsula. 

This course will count towards the Dance Major, Dance Minor, and/or Elective Credit, Department of Theatre & Dance; Course Attributes: Dance Major, Dance Minor, Elective.

Min

0.5

Max

1