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A fusion of different advanced beginning contemporary dance techniques and genres embracing a variety of movement skills, dance vocabulary, and current trends in dance.

Beginning jazz dance with emphasis on basic technique, terminology, dance combinations and basic rhythms of jazz dance.

Advanced beginning jazz dance builds upon skills learned in beginning jazz dance technique with emphasis on refining technique, increasing vocabulary, movement through space, and combinations.

Intermediate Hip Hop dance builds upon skills learned in Advance Beginning Hip Hop with emphasis on increasing vocabulary, styles, and length of dance combinations with more complex rhythms. Using hip hop dance as a vehicle, students will be able to explore their own movement expression and choreography.

Advanced Hip Hop dance builds upon skills learned in Intermediate Hip Hop with emphasis on increasing vocabulary, styles, and length of dance combinations with more complex rhythms. Using hip hop dance as a vehicle, students will be able to explore their own movement expression and choreography in both group and solo settings.

Advanced beginning modern dance builds upon skills learned in beginning modern dance technique with emphasis on refining technique, increasing vocabulary, movement through levels and space, and combinations.

Beginning modern dance with emphasis on basic terminology, correct dance alignment, dance routines and basic concepts of modernism. Examples of the techniques explored: Graham, Cunningham, Limon, Horton, and Dunham.

Exploration of compositional movement techniques. Improvisation and choreographic structures are presented for student study. The course culminates with a studio demonstration or theatre performance.

Instruction and practice in the Feldenkrais Method to address physical habits, movement adaptability, and specific performance skills for dance and related movement-based performance styles. Processes which enhance human expression through refinement of motor learning will be explored. ¾«Ñ¡AV GE Area G2 and CSU GE Area E2.

Focus on conditioning techniques that relate to the dance idiom. Emphasis on basic Pilates principals that build abdominal and back strength. Exercises include body alignment, flexibility techniques, floor barre, weight training and stability exercises.