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- Effective Term:
- Summer 2014 through Summer 2024
- Course Number:
- PE 186G
- Course Title:
- Jazz Dance II
- Credit Hours:
- 1
- Lecture Hours:
- 0
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 30
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Develop and increase beginning/intermediate jazz dance skills and kinesthetic awareness in jazz dance technique.
- Identify and apply the principles of jazz dance technique and vocabulary.
- Explore and appreciate jazz dance as an art form.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
- Attendance, participation, and effort.
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills in beginning/intermediate jazz dance technique.
- Written and/or practical evaluation.
- Paper or project on jazz dance.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
CONCEPTS, THEMES, ISSUES:
Fundamental Principles of Jazz Dance Technique:
- Correct alignment
- Turnout and parallel positions of the legs and feet
- Body and arm positions
- Safe and efficient dance techniques
Jazz Dance Class, beginning/intermediate level:
- Warm-up
- Axial movements
- Isolations
- Ballet based movements: plies, battements, rond de jambe
- Floor work
- Stretches
- Connecting steps
- Jazz walks
- Jazz turns
Jazz jumps
- Dance combinations
Structure of jazz dance class
Dance class etiquette
Jazz Dance Aesthetics:
- Energy and dynamics of movement
- Rhythmic variations and syncopation
Spatial awareness
Awareness of jazz dance styles
COMPETENCIES/SKILLS:
Demonstrate correct technique and appropriate skills in beginning/intermediate jazz dance steps and combinations:
- Warm-up sequences
- Plie sequences
- Battements
- Isolations
- Floor work
- Connecting steps
- Jazz walks
- Jazz turns
- Jazz jumps
- Traveling combinations
- Dance combinations
Demonstrate jazz dance steps and combinations with variations in rhythm, dynamics, levels, and direction.
Demonstrate improved control, strength, coordination, and flexibility in jazz dance.
Demonstrate ability to learn, execute, and retain jazz dance steps and combinations from visual, aural, and kinesthetic cues with greater speed and accuracy.
Demonstrate ability to reverse combinations.
Examine and articulate ideas about a dance performance.
Present a paper or report on jazz dance.