Time Schedule:
Hengda Li
DANCE 403
Seattle Campus
Advanced level.
Class description
This is advance level class.This class will to increase your dance vocabulary, to enrich the quality of your dancing, to reinforce your basic technique, to expand your expressive range and enhance your creativity, to build strength of your performance (your personal artistic expression)
Student learning goals
1) Understand dance as a cultural practice that reflects and impacts local communities and global cultures.
2) Develop and practice analytic, evaluative, and contextual skills requisite to critical thinking, kinesthetic understanding, and personal growth.
3) Develop and practice skills in rhythmic, movement and compositional analysis.
4) Develop effective communication and research skills to promote and articulate a deeper understanding of dance practice and theory.
5) Engage in personal assessment and reflective practices that encourage self-directed learning.
6) Understand how basic principals of dance science and teaching methodologies can be applied to technical and aesthetic development. 7) Recognize and expand creative, artistic, and intellectual potentials.
General method of instruction
Recommended preparation
Everyone is required to attend MFA/Faculty Dance Concert in May 21-24 2009, at the Meany Theatre. Turn in your ticket with your name on it before May 29th 2009. Tickets are available at the Ticket Office at 4001 University Way NE, or call 206-543-4880, or visit http://www.meany.org/tickets/index.aspx.
Class assignments and grading
• Your attitude towards learning • Your level of expressivity and musicality • Your class participation • How well you capture the movements • How well your performance in class (your personal artistic expression)
