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• DAN 205: Improvisation

  2.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines the nature of improvisation ion terms of movement and explores the process of discovering, creating and performing movement spontaneously. Prerequisite:    DAN 205 requires a prerequisite of DAN 130 or DAN 132 or DAN 232 or DAN 332.
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• DAN 210: The Dancer's Body

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  An exploration of the body systems, along with injury prevention and care, especially as it applies to the dancer. This course incorporates the physical practice of yoga, Pilates and other mind and body techniques as they apply to the preparation for the physical demands of dance technique.
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• DAN 232: Modern Dance II

  2.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Modern Dance II is a continuation and expansion of Modern Dance I. It will focus on Modern Dance as a performing art with emphasis placed on longer combinations and more complex problem-solving themes.
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• DAN 233: Jazz Dance II

  2.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is a continuing development of jazz dance form and function (introduced in Jazz 1) with emphasis on proper jazz technique, introduction of intermediate level rhythms and combinations, expanding movement capabilities, and exploring individual expression and artistry.
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• DAN 234: Ballet II

  2.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Ballet II is an intermediate-level course designed to expand on the ballet fundamentals and basic vocabulary learned in Ballet I.
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• DAN 235: Tap Dancing II

  2.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  The primary focus of this course is to introduce the fundamentals of tap dance at an intermediate level. Emphasis will be given to focus and presentation of steps and combinations, musicality, and individual expression through movement.
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• DAN 300: Controversial Bodies: Visions of Beauty

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Controversial Bodies: Visions of Beauty will foster a discussion of bodily beauty across the multiples fields of theater, dance, history and sociology. In creating a course that holds these two physical markers, the body and beauty, at its core, a space can be filled within the university's curriculum where central to the course is the notion that the body is a social and cultural entity and that, markers of bodily beauty are constructed differently across various cultures and time periods. In particular, Controversial Bodies: Visions of Beauty, examines how figures in the performing arts have pulled the make-up of beauty in opposite directions, reinforcing or subverting the norms of what is socially and politically acceptable, playing with nudity, androgyny and ugliness, and rewriting the markers of beauty in terms of race, gender, age and bodily type.
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• DAN 315: Dance Pedagogy

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Basic course offering methods and materials for teaching dance technique.
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• DAN 332: Modern Dance III

  2.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Modern Dance III is a continuation and expansion on Modern Dance I & II. This course will focus on exploring various teaching techniques and styles that have been developed by prominent figures in Modern Dance.
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• DAN 333: Jazz III

  2.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Continuing development of jazz dance technique with emphasis on varying styles of jazz techniques, advanced rhythms and combination, expanding movement capabilities, and exploring individual expression and artistry.
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