2015-2016 Catalog

Dance Performance Learning Goals


  1. Students will demonstrate substantial facility within a diverse range of dance styles and techniques.
  2. Students will demonstrate sophistication with, and control of, performance dynamics in a wide range of formal and informal performance events.
  3. Students will demonstrate facility with improvisational choreography and compositional conventions in the creation of original dance works.
  4. Students will demonstrate an understanding of, and facility for, historical and theoretical inquiry in dance including its interrelatedness to various other cultural influences and forms of cultural production.
  5. Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of interrelatedness of allied disciplines that enhance dance creation and performance.
  6. Students will demonstrate responsibility for support of ensemble management and ensemble productions.