Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of dance techniques in ballet or modern.

Links conditioning skills, movement therapies, and neuromuscular patterning through the process of building strength, alignment, and awareness in essential musculature needed for foundational work in ballet and modern.

Prerequisites: An intermediate or advanced dance technique course or permission of instructor. Limited to 10.

Introduction to the theories and methods of movement analysis, focusing on its application to dance performance and research. Through lectures, readings, integrative movement exercises, and observation labs, students will learn to analyze and describe the qualitative aspects of human movement; to notate movement in motif writing; and to refine their ability to move efficiently and expressively.

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Study of choreography as a creative art. The development and organization of movement materials according to formal principles of composition in solo and duet forms. Applicable to all styles of dance.

Continued study of choreography as a communicative performing art form. Focuses on the exploration of ideas and meaning. Emphasis is placed on the development of personal style as an expressive medium and unity of style in each work. Group as well as solo compositions will be assigned.

Prerequisites: Fee: $150.

Study of the cultural roots and historical contexts of specific communities using New York City's dance scene as a laboratory. Students observe the social environments in which various modes of dance works are created while researching the history of dance in New York City. Course includes attendance at weekly events, lecture-demonstrations, and performances.

Focuses on the history of theatre dance forms originating in Europe and America from the Renaissance to the present. Includes reading, writing, viewing, and discussion of sources such as film, text, original documentation, demonstration, and performance.

Examines the history and choreographic features of Latin American and Caribbean dance forms. Dances are analyzed in order to uncover the ways in which dancing shapes national, racial, and gender identities. Focuses on the globalization of these dances in New York City.

Traces the development of African-American dance, emphasizing the contribution of black artists and the influence of black traditions on American theatrical dance. Major themes include the emergence of African-American concert dance, the transfer of vernacular forms to the concert stage, and issues of appropriation, cultural self-identification, and artistic hybridity.

Prerequisites: Audition. Subject to cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit up to a maximum of 3 credits a semester.

Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.

Prerequisites: Permission of Department.

May be repeated for credit up to four times.

Open to all beginning dancers.

Prerequisites: Intermediate level technique and permission of instructor.

Study and performance of choreography using three approaches: learning excerpts from the repertory of selected choreographers, analyzing through reconstruction of classic repertory works, and understanding the choreographic process by working in a creation from initial concept to finished dance.

Prerequisites: Limited to twenty people.

Examination of the gender-neutral partnering technique that is now common in contemporary dance. Focus is placed on recent improvisatory forms, sensation building, center connection and risk. Emphasis is placed on listening and sensing rather than controlling or leading.

Prerequisites: DNCE BC3338 Contact Improvisation. Sophomore standing or permission of instructor required.

Examination of this gender-neutral partnering technique further exploring compositional forms as they arise from the practice. Students will also investigate a variety of set repertory dance texts that have originated from contact improvised material.

Prerequisites: BC1137, BC1138, BC1332, or BC1333. Intermediate level in modern or ballet technique is required.

Prerequisites: BC1137, BC1138, BC1332, or BC1333, or permission of the Dance Department. Intermediate level in modern or ballet technique is required.

Prerequisites: DNCE BC1247, BC1248 or permission of instructor.

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Concentrates on the dances of West Africa, including Senegal, Mali, and Guinea, and a variety of dances performed at various functions and ceremonies. Explanation of the origin and meaning of each dance will be an integral part of the material presented.

Prerequisites: DNCE BC2252 or permission of instructor.

Prerequisites: DNCE BC1445, BC1446, or Permission of instructor.

Prerequisites: DNCE BC1137, BC1138, BC1332, BC1333, or Permission of instructor. Intermediate level in modern or ballet technique is required.

Prerequisites: DNCE BC3250, y, or permission of instructor.

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of dance techniques in ballet or modern.

Links conditioning skills, movement therapies, and neuromuscular patterning through the process of building strength, alignment, and awareness in essential musculature needed for foundational work in ballet and modern.

Focus on physical sciences that relate to human movement, with an emphasis on functional anatomy. Topics include skeletal structure, physics of dance, muscular balance, and improving movement potential.

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Study of choreography as a creative art. The development and organization of movement materials according to formal principles of composition in solo and duet forms. Applicable to all styles of dance.

Investigates the multicultural perspectives of dance in major areas of culture, including African, Asian, Hispanic, Indian, Middle Eastern, as well as dance history of the Americas through reading, writing, viewing, and discussion of a wide range of resources. These include film, original documents, demonstration, and performance.

Study of musicianship and musical literacy in relation to dance. Using computer software, drumming studies, score and audio-visual analyses, students will learn to identify the compositional elements of dance music with a multi-cultural emphasis. Presentation of individual and collective research in written and performance format.

Prerequisites: Permission of the Instructor.

This course explores specific techniques dancers utilize to cultivate performance: inherent qualities of the stage space, visual, physical, and emotional focus, movement dynamics and texture, and the use of imagery, sets and fabric. This course will also deepen one's awareness of these elements from a choreographic and directorial perspective.

Prerequisites: Two semesters of dance composition or permission of instructor.

Advanced study in dance composition to include the creation of a trio, quartet, and quintet. Issues of structure and modes of expression will be addressed as they relate to choreographic form. Techniques employed by contemporary choreographers will be explored. Students will be encouraged to particpate in music, architectural, and visual arts collaborations.

Examines the history and choreographic features of Latin American and Caribbean dance forms. Dances are analyzed in order to uncover the ways in which dancing shapes national, racial, and gender identities. Focuses on the globalization of these dances in New York City.

Prerequisites: Intermediate level technique and permission of instructor.

Study of solo excerpts from classical and modern repertory and the presentation of individual research in both written and performance format. Emphasis on the role that the dancer must play to facilitate the realization of the choreographer's concept.

Prerequisites: Audition. Subject to cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit up to a maximum of 3 credits a semester.

Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.

Prerequisites: Permission of Department.

May be repeated for credit up to four times.

Open to all beginning dancers.

Prerequisites: Limited to twenty people.

Examination of the gender-neutral partnering technique that is now common in contemporary dance. Focus is placed on recent improvisatory forms, sensation building, center connection and risk. Emphasis is placed on listening and sensing rather than controlling or leading.

Prerequisites: DNCE BC3338 Contact Improvisation. Sophomore standing or permission of instructor required.

Examination of this gender-neutral partnering technique further exploring compositional forms as they arise from the practice. Students will also investigate a variety of set repertory dance texts that have originated from contact improvised material.

Prerequisites: BC1137, BC1138, BC1332, or BC1333. Intermediate level in modern or ballet technique is required.

Prerequisites: BC1137, BC1138, BC1332, or BC1333, or permission of the Dance Department. Intermediate level in modern or ballet technique is required.

Prerequisites: DNCE BC1247, BC1248 or permission of instructor.

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Concentrates on the dances of West Africa, including Senegal, Mali, and Guinea, and a variety of dances performed at various functions and ceremonies. Explanation of the origin and meaning of each dance will be an integral part of the material presented.

Prerequisites: DNCE BC2252 or permission of instructor.

Prerequisites: DNCE BC1445, BC1446, or Permission of instructor.

Prerequisites: BC1137, BC1138, BC1332, or BC1333 or permission of the Dance Department.

Prerequisites: DNCE BC2248, y or permission of instructor.

Prerequisites: DNCE BC3250, y, or permission of instructor.

Prerequisites: One course in dance history/studies or permission of the instructor.

Explores the question of why so many women dancer/choreographers of the 1930's - to the early 1960's, including relatively well-known ones, have ended up as peripheral rather than central players in what has become the master narrative of a crucial era of the recent dance past.