CONTEMPORARY DANCE FORMS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness + Lab Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate technical specificity, musicality, and artistic confidence inballet and contemporary dance techniques through sequenced skill level progressions. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Recognize, identify, and embody a wide range of somatic theories andpractices and produce work investigating its impacts and uses in contemporary dance as practice. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Demonstrate an advanced level of contemporary dance literacy andartistry. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Assess theoretic work, performance growth, and creative work by utilizing curricular scaffolded reflective and critical assessment approaches. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Compose dance work for the concert stage and/or alternate spaces. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Choreograph combination variation that demonstrates an extended challenge (appropriately scaffolded) for performance and to teach to undergraduate peers in class. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate technical specificity, musicality, and artistic confidence inballet and contemporary dance techniques through sequenced skill level progressions. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Recognize, identify, and embody a wide range of somatic theories andpractices and produce work investigating its impacts and uses in contemporary dance as practice. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Demonstrate an advanced level of contemporary dance literacy andartistry. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Assess theoretic work, performance growth, and creative work by utilizing curricular scaffolded reflective and critical assessment approaches. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Compose dance work for the concert stage and/or alternate spaces. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Choreograph combination variation that demonstrates an extended challenge (appropriately scaffolded) for performance and to teach to undergraduate peers in class. Audience: Graduate