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Dec 26, 2024
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DANC 1280 - Tap Dance I
This is an intermediate level tap dance course that focuses on warm-up sequences, across the floor progressions, and center floor combinations that advance students technical proficiencies in tap. Students expand their technical capabilities and aesthetic range with work on complex rhythms, steps, foot articulations, and whole-body alignment. Students expand their expressive potential for tap dance through application of listening skills, personal musicianship, and study of contemporary forms and diverse styles of tap dance. Class work also includes call and respond exercises, improvisation, choreographic study, and discussion.
Requisites: DANC 1080 or permission.
Credit Hours: 1.5
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 3.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 studio
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to perform and analyze intermediate level tap technique.
- Students will be able to demonstrate intermediate level rhythms, steps, and foot articulations.
- Students will be able to demonstrate proficient alignment and carriage of the body.
- Students will be able to perform intermediate tap vocabulary in movement sequences across the floor and center combinations.
- Students will be able to readily develop and execute short phrases of tap steps.
- Students will be able to identify and produce complex rhythmic structures and steps.
- Students will be able to discuss the diverse styles and contemporary forms of tap dance.
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