0.5 PHYSICAL EDUCATION CREDIT OR ELECTIVE CREDIT - GRADE 11 -12
Dance is an introductory survey class that examines dance as a primary mode of human expression and communication. Through viewing live and recorded performances and engaging in targeted readings, we will place dance in a variety of cultural, artistic and historical contexts, focusing on developments in dance in the twentieth and twenty first centuries. In movement exercises and readings, we will compare and contrast sacred, social, popular, and concert dance traditions in the West and around the world. During this course we will develop vocabularies for discussing types of movement and move towards a framework for reading dances. We will deepen our understanding of dance, choreography and movement forms, and learn how to better articulate, through writing and discussion, what we see, feel and perceive in dances. You will be up and moving in this class. No dance experience is required but one must be physically capable of movement based activities.