Course Syllabus
Course: DANC 2760
Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
Department: Dance
Title: Ballroom Technique IV
Semester Approved: Fall 2018
Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2024
End Semester: Summer 2024
Catalog Description: This class is designed for students with a previous experience in Ballroom Dance technique. Students in this course will improve their ballroom dance technique in the following ways: posture and overall aesthetics, including lines, body shapes and contra-body movement position. Footwork is a crucial element also with Standard and Latin foot placements, turnout, toe to heel timing and overall foot strengthening. Muscle tone, isolation, stretching and strengthening are core concepts at this stage of dance. Stage exhibition, competitive, social and career aspects of dance are introduced. Repeatable for credit.
Semesters Offered: TBA
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 2; Lecture: 1; Lab: 2
Repeatable: Yes.
Prerequisites: DANC 2720 or Instructor approval
Corequisites: if no prerequisite then current enrollment in DANC 2756
Justification: Students who wish to extent their technique for competitions, exhibition or social ballroom dancing need technique courses in order to hone their talent. They need technique work that will challenge them physically, stretch them artistically and expand their skill set to prepare them for all avenues of ballroom dance. This class is most similar to DANC 3740 Ballroom Dance Choreography and DANC 3750 Studies in Ballroom Dance Styles at UVU.
General Education Outcomes:
5: A student who completes the GE curriculum can address complex problems by integrating the knowledge and methodologies of multiple disciplines. Students will respond to videotaped performances, their peers in class, and live performances. Written responses will include analysis of technique, choreography, performance skills and storyline
Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to display the proper intermediate/advanced ballroom dance technique. Students will receive feedback from instructor in class.
Students will demonstrate knowledge of musicality, show increased flexibility, strength, mental and physical dexterity, coordination, endurance, performance skills and communicate a deep understanding of dance as an art form. Students will demonstrate this through skills test in class and in performances.
Increase knowledge of movement and movement's relationship to meaning. Dance students are required to attend and critically review Snow College Dance Performances.
Increase physical fitness and safety awareness: strength, flexibility, endurance, and coordination. Through discussion of correct movement principles and how they apply to dance and all types of movement, students will learn and be able to demonstrate in their own movement an awareness of safety and more physical fitness.
Content:
Class will consist of warm up and practice time, review of the steps or figures previously learned, introduction of new material, practice and application of the new material, and individual practice and cool down time. Technique will be demonstrated and explained, while students emulate and practice.
Anatomy, physiology, vertical and horizontal motion and their influence on the overall aesthetics are discussed. Rhythm and musicality using classic ballroom music will be examined. Through observation and written critique, students will practice responding articulately to the artistry of ballroom performances.
Key Performance Indicators:
attendance and participation 40 to 50%
performance exams 10 to 20%
review of performance 10 to 30%
Dance Night 5 to 15%
Representative Text and/or Supplies:
Ballroom dance shoes, shirt, pants, and skirts.
Pedagogy Statement:
This course is taught through classroom discussion, observation, and practical application.
Instructional Mediums:
Lecture/Lab
Maximum Class Size: 24
Optimum Class Size: 12
