DANCE 140* - Ballet Technique I
2 CR
Introduces the principles, techniques, and vocabulary of classical ballet. Students learn placement, flexibility, strength, and coordination. For beginning and advanced-beginning students. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits. DANCE 140 is the same course as PE 140. Either DANCE 140 or PE 140 may be taken for credit, not both.
Course Outcomes
- Describe the composition of a dancer’s line and form and apply correct body alignment and posture to ballet technique.
- Perform fundamental ballet conditioning exercises.
- Identify basic ballet movements using French terminology Illustrate how a system of practice exercises at the barre prepares dancers for proper ballet technique.
- Analyze the way in which acquired skills developed at the barre coordinate with movements in the center and across the floor.
- Explain how musical phrasing is used in ballet.
- Improve physical fitness and cultivate self-expression.
- Outline how the mechanics of ballet technique can be used to progress toward a mastery of other dance styles.
GenEd Outcomes: Creative and Critical Thinking
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